| I'll Prove It to You | ||||
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| Released | 1988 | |||
| Label | Columbia [1] | |||
| Producer | Gregory Abbott | |||
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I'll Prove It to You is the second album by the American musician Gregory Abbott. [2] [3] It was released in 1988. [4]
The album peaked at No. 132 on the Billboard 200. [5] The title track peaked in the top 10 on the Hot Black Singles chart. [6]
The album was produced by Abbott; he also played drums. [7] The title track is performed as a ballad; "Prisoner of Love" was done in a funk style. [8] [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [11] |
| Los Angeles Times | [12] |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | [13] |
The Los Angeles Times called "Crazy for You" "a slow-drag '50s-sounding ballad that Jackie Wilson would've had a ball recording." [12] The Washington Post opined that "Abbott's at his best with slow, swaying ballads like 'Unfinished Business', but the overall effect is ignorable." [14] USA Today deemed Abbott "a minor talent marketed like a superstar, and his everyman voice does little more than highlight his mediocre original material." [8]
The Christian Science Monitor stated that Abbott "throws in a couple of '50s-style rhythm-and-blues numbers, where he lets loose his Smokey Robinson falsetto." [7] The Philadelphia Inquirer determined that Abbott's "material is weak and repetitive, but his singing is still strong and confident." [13]
AllMusic wrote that the album "finds the vocalist in the same vein as his previous effort; merging '80s music technology with '50s doowop/early-'60s soul-tinged sensibility." [10]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Back to Stay" | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Prisoner of Love" | 4:40 |
| 3. | "I'll Prove It to You" | 4:09 |
| 4. | "Runaway" | 3:21 |
| 5. | "Unfinished Business" | 3:47 |
| 6. | "Crazy Over You" | 4:27 |
| 7. | "Let Me Be Your Hero" | 4:00 |
| 8. | "Take Me Back" | 3:59 |
| 9. | "Two of a Kind" | 2:55 |
| 10. | "She's an Entertainer" | 3:25 |
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