Girls Will Be Girls (Klymaxx album)

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Girls Will Be Girls
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ReleasedSeptember 14, 1982
Recorded1982
StudioStudio Masters, Los Angeles, CA
Genre R&B
Label SOLAR
Producer Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Otis Stokes, Stephen Shockley
Klymaxx chronology
Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman
(1981)
Girls Will Be Girls
(1982)
Meeting in the Ladies Room
(1984)
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Girls Will Be Girls is the second album by R&B group Klymaxx. Released in 1982, Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Lakeside members Otis Stokes and Stephen Shockley with Dynasty member William Shelby. This would be one of the first acts Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis would begin their writing and production career outside of The Time.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Girls Will Be Girls" (Otis Stokes) - 6:09
  2. "Wild Girls" (Terry Lewis, James Harris) - 6:01
  3. "Convince Me" (Lynn Malsby, Stephen Shockley, Lorena Stewart) - 5:15
  4. "The Man in My Life" (Dana Meyers, Dwight T. Smith, Joyce Irby) - 5:27
  5. "Heartbreaker (I'm Such a Mess)" (Bernadette Cooper, Cheryl Cooley) - 4:27
  6. "All Turned Out" (Bernadette Cooper, Ernest "Pepper" Reed, Joyce Irby, Judy Takeuchi, Lynn Malsby) - 4:54
  7. "Offer I Can't Refuse" (Stephen Shockley) - 4:51
  8. "If You Love Me" (Otis Stokes) - 5:11
  9. "Don't Hide Your Love" (William Shelby, Lorena Stewart) - 4:11

Personnel

Arrangement Credits

Production

Studios

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References

  1. Wynn, Ron. "Girls Will Be Girls review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2011-10-11.