Fragile is the debut studio album by American singer Cherrelle. It was released on April 8, 1984 by Tabu Records and was the first of four records for the label (she would leave Tabu after the release of 1991's "The Woman I Am").
The album was mostly written, arranged and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (a/k/a Flyte Time Productions), and, under their guidance, she scored a smash R&B hit with "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". The song reached number eight on the US R&B chart and number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Release history
Label Cat. No. Format Date Tabu PZ 39144 US Vinyl, Cassette 1984 Tabu TBU 26064 UK Vinyl 1984 Tabu ZK 39144 US CD 1986 Tabu 25DP 5368 JP CD 1989 Tabu, The Right Stuff 72435-41819-2-4 EU US CD 2002 Solid CDSOL-5207 JP CD 2013 Tabu TABU1003 UK CD 2013
Track listing
Personnel and production
Tracks 1–3, 5 & 7 Arranged & Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis For Flyte Tyme Productions Engineered & Mixed by Steve Wiese & Taavi Mote Additional Recording Engineers: Judy Clapp & Steve Hodge Jimmy Jam - synthesizers, synth programming, acoustic piano, drum programming, percussion, backing vocals Terry Lewis - keyboards, synthesizers, electric bass, drum programming, backing vocals Monte Moir - synthesizers, percussion, backing vocals David Eiland - tuba, saxophone Randy Jenkins, Lucia Newell, Gwendolyn Traylor - backing vocals
Tracks 4, 6 & 8 Arranged & Produced by Michael Everitt Dunlap & Isaac Suthers, with additional vocal arrangements by Maxi Anderson Engineered by Robert Biles Assistant Engineers: Michael Gilbert, Dennis Woods & Kelvin Dixon Mixed by Mike Evans & Taavi Mote Michael Everitt Dunlap - electric, acoustic and bass guitars, acoustic piano, drums, backing vocals Isaac Suthers - synthesizers Eric Sylvester Daniels - synthesizers, Fender Rhodes Ellis Smith - electric and acoustic guitars Terry Santiel - percussion Maxi Anderson, Bill Champlin, Tamara Champlin, Phyllis St. James, Randall Jenkins, Gwenche Macho - backing vocals
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