Forbidden Lover (album)

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Forbidden Lover
Forbidden Lover - cover.jpg
Studio album by
Nancy Wilson
ReleasedApril 1987 (1987-04)
Studiovarious
Genre Vocal jazz
Length40:34
Label Columbia
Producer Dr. George Butler
Nancy Wilson chronology
Keep You Satisfied
(1985)		Forbidden Lover
(1987)		Nancy Now
(1988)
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Forbidden Lover is a studio album by American jazz singer Nancy Wilson released by Columbia Records in 1987. [2] The album reached No. 8 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums chart.

Contents

Artists such as Branford Marsalis, Robert Brookins and Paul Jackson Jr. appear on the album. [2]

Critical reception

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic in a 3/5 stars review, remarked "Billed as the 50th album by this 50-year-old singer, Nancy Wilson's Forbidden Lover is an attempt to contemporize her sound, with arrangements that recall Luther Vandross and the Earth, Wind & Fire horn section...But Wilson the jazz-R&B song stylist gets lost on most of these recordings." [1]

Robert K. Oermann of USA Today also ranked this album at No. 31 on his list of 1987's top 50 R&B albums. [3]

Accolades

Wilson earned a Grammy nomination in the category of Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for her performance on the album. [4]

Track listing

Track no.TitleSongwriter(s)Length
1"Forbidden Lover" featuring Carl Anderson Benny Diggs, Joseph Joubert04:17
2"I Was Telling Him About You"Mark "Moose" Charlap, Don George 03:18
3"If You Only Knew" Robert Brookins, Lena Sunday04:24
4"Deeper"04:47
5"Puttin' My Trust"Roger Bruno, Glenn Samuels, Ellen Schwartz03:40
6"You Know"Ted Brancato, Gene McDaniels 04:23
7"Too Good to Be True" featuring Carl AndersonPaul Anderson, Gene McDaniels04:21
8"I Never Held Your Heart"03:53
9"What Will It Take This Time"03:32
10"A Song for You" Leon Russell 04:00

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
US Traditional Jazz Albums (Billboard) [5] 8

References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. Nancy Wilson: Forbidden Lover. AllMusic . Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 Nancy Wilson - Forbidden Lover. Columbia Records. 1987.
  3. ↑ K. Oermann, Robert (December 31, 1987). "I'm looking over the albums that shook my soul in 1987". USA Today – via newsbank.com.
  4. ↑ "Nancy Wilson". The Recording Academy. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Wilson Chart History (Traditional Jazz Album)". Billboard. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
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