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Let's Hear It for the Boy (album)

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Production
Reception
Track listing
Side A Side B
Participants
Production Personnel
Chart performance
References

{{Infobox album
| name = Let's Hear It for the Boy
| type = Studio
| artist = Deniece Williams
| cover = letshearit.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 1984
| recorded = 1983-1984 at The Complex (Los Angeles, CA); LeGonks West (West Hollywood, CA); Soundcastle (Santa Monica, CA).
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = R&B, soul, funk, dance
| length = 40:53
| label = Columbia, CBS (originally)
Sony
| producer = Deniece Williams, George Duke
| prev_title = I'm So Proud
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Hot on the Trail
| next_year = 1984
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Let's Hear It for the Boy
| type = studio
| single1 = Let's Hear It for the Boy
| single1date = April 13, 1984
| single2 = Next Love
| single2date = 1984
| single3 = Black Butterfly
| single3date = 1984
}}
}}Let's Hear It for the Boy is an album by American recording artist Deniece Williams released in 1984 for Columbia and CBS Records. The album reached number 10 on the Billboard pop chart and number 26 on the R&B Albums.^[1]^[2]

It was produced by American multi-instrumentalist George Duke who also actively participated on the record.

The album features urban hits "Black Butterfly", "Next Love" and the international hit "Let's Hear It for the Boy" which was featured on the musical-drama Footloose and its soundtrack album.

Production

Deniece Williams produced six tracks of the album, and George Duke produced four more.^[3] The production of the album was completed in early May 1984 before the album was released a few weeks later.^[4]

Reception

Carl Matthews of the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper called the album "more tempo than her previous releases."^[3]

Track listing

Side A

{{tracklist
| title1 = Let's Hear It for the Boy
| writer1 = Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow
| length1 = 4:18
| title2 = I Want You
| writer2 = Peter Couch, Deniece Williams
| length2 = 2:50
| title3 = Picking Up the Pieces
| writer3 = Peter Couch, Deniece Williams
| length3 = 4:40
| title4 = Black Butterfly
| writer4 = Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
| length4 = 4:25
| title5 = Next Love
| writer5 = George Duke, Deniece Williams
| length5 = 4:23
}}

Side B

{{tracklist
| headline =
| title1 = Haunting Me
| writer1 = George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam, Deniece Williams
| length1 = 4:57
| title2 = Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing
| writer2 = George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
| length2 = 4:00
| title3 = Blind Dating
| writer3 = Michele Val Jean, Robert Brookins, Deniece Williams
| length3 = 3:39
| title4 = Wrapped Up
| writer4 = Andrew Barrett, George McMahon
| length4 = 3:39
| title5 = Whiter Than Snow
| writer5 = Traditional
| length5 = 3:44
}}

Participants

Production

Larkin Arnold – executive producer
Bridget Bergman – make-up
Nancy Donald – art direction
George Duke – producer (Tracks 1, 4, 5 & 6)
Murray Dvorkin – mix assistant (Track 1)
D.W. Enterprises – management
Mitch Gibson – second engineer (Track 4)
Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
Mick Guzauski – engineer (Tracks 2-10)
Constance Guzman – production assistant
Tony Lane – art direction
Margaret MacFarlane – photography
Tom Perry – engineer (Tracks 1-10)
Nick Spigel – second engineer (Track 1)
Tommy Vicari – engineer (Tracks 1-10), mixing (Tracks 1-10)
Deniece Williams – producer (Tracks 2, 3 & 7-10)

Personnel

Deniece Williams – lead vocals, arrangements (2), backing vocals (1, 3, 6-10)
Paul Jackson, Jr. – guitar (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Jeff Baxter – guitar (3, 7, 8, 9)
Michael Sembello – guitar (4, 6)
Nathan East – bass (3, 4, 7, 8, 9)
Fred Washington – bass (5)
Ricky Lawson – drums (3, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Ricky Nelson – drums (9)
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion (1, 3)
Sheila E. – percussion (5)
John Robinson – tom toms (6)
George Duke – LinnDrum programming (1, 6), Memorymoog (1, 5), Prophet 5 (1, 4), Moog bass (1), keyboards (2), Rhodes (5), synthesizer (6), vocoder (6), special effects (6)
Leon Pendarvis – synthesizer (3, 8, 9), arrangements (3, 7, 8, 9)
Kevin Grady – synthesizer (3, 8, 9)
Russell Ferrante – acoustic piano (3, 4, 8, 9), Rhodes (4)
Jerry Peters – organ (10), arrangements (10)
Ronnie Laws – tenor saxophone (2)
Richard Elliot – lyricon (4)
Hubert Laws – flute (5)
George Del Barrio – string arrangements (2)
George Merrill – backing vocals (1, 3, 5-9), LinnDrum programming (6), Roland Jupiter 8 (6), arrangements (6)
Shannon Rubicam – backing vocals (1, 3, 5-9)
Oren Waters – backing vocals (3, 9)
Roosevelt Christmas III – backing vocals (5, 6)

Chart performance

Chart (1984)	Peak position^[1]
US Billboard Top 200 Albums	26
US Billboard Top Black Albums	10

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p2440|pure_url=yes}}|title=AMG: deniece-williams on the Billboard charts|publisher=All Music Guide|accessdate=2011-08-25}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Deniece-Williams-Lets-Hear-It-For-The-Boy/release/1033825|title=Discogs: deniece-williams at Discogs|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=2011-08-25}}
3. ^¹{{cite news |first=Carl |last=Matthews |date=June 2, 1984 |title=Sounds: Deniece Williams |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hS0mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gf4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4421%2C2049379 |work=The Afro-American |page=11 |location=Baltimore |accessdate=October 23, 2014 }}
4. ^{{cite news |date=May 3, 1984 |title=Rolling Stones plan to do video, concert in L.A. during Olympics |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=madOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6815%2C717596 |page=2A |work=The Ledger |accessdate=October 23, 2014 }}

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