Cross Fire (Spinners album)

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Cross Fire
The Spinners - Cross Fire.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 19, 1984 (1984-03-19)
Genre Soul
Length43:19
LanguageEnglish
Label Atlantic
Producer
  • Keg Johnson
  • Dana Meyers
  • James Sylvers
  • Leon Sylvers III
  • Ricky Sylvers
  • William Zimmerman
The Spinners chronology
Grand Slam
(1982)
Cross Fire
(1984)
Lovin' Feelings
(1985)

Cross Fire is a 1984 studio album by American soul music vocal group The Spinners, released on Atlantic Records. This release continued a commercial decline that the group experienced beginning in the late 1970s and was their final album on long-time label Atlantic.

Contents

The album featured the group's final major R&B chart hit, with "Right or Wrong" peaking at number 22 that same year.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic Guide scored Cross Fire two out of five stars. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Two of a Kind" (Kamau Peterson and Dorie Pride) – 4:29
  2. "Right or Wrong" (Peterson and Pride) – 5:09
  3. "(We Have Come Into) Our Time for Love" (Dana Marshal, Dana Meyers, Wilmer Raglin, and William Zimmerman) – 5:37
  4. "Cross Fire" (Marshal, Meyers, Raglin, and Zimmerman) – 5:20
  5. "Keep On Keepin' On" (Ahmad Abdullah and Leon Sylvers III) – 6:33
  6. "Not Just Another Lover" (Vincent Brantley, Pamela Phillips-Oland, and Rickey Smith) – 4:27
  7. "Love Is in Season" (Phillips-Orland, Raglin, and Zimmerman) – 3:51
  8. "All Your Love" (Marshal and James Sylvers) – 3:58
  9. "Secrets" (Gary McGill) – 3:55

Chart performance

Cross Fire reached 47 on the R&B chart and did not land on the Billboard 200. [2] The album spent several months on Jet 's Top Albums from May to August 1984. [3] [4]

Personnel

The Spinners

Additional personnel

See also

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References

  1. "The Spinners Cross Fire". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  2. "US Albums Charts > The Spinners". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
  3. "Jet's Top Albums". Jet . Vol. 66, no. 11. Johnson Publishing, Company, Inc. May 21, 1984. p. 58. ISSN   0021-5996.
  4. "Jet's Top Albums". Jet . Vol. 66, no. 11. Johnson Publishing, Company, Inc. August 13, 1984. p. 61. ISSN   0021-5996.