What You See Is What You Sweat

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1991 studio album by Aretha Franklin

What You See Is What You Sweat is the thirty-third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on June 25, 1991, by Arista Records. It peaked at #153 on Billboard‘s album chart, dropping off after seven weeks. This was Franklin’s first new release in the Nielsen SoundScan era.

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

  • Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, piano, background vocals
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
  • Peter Schwartz – additional keyboards
  • Michel Legrand – synthesizer
  • Franck Thore – Pan pipes
  • Dean Parks – guitar
  • Burt Bacharach – keyboards
  • Marcus Miller – bass guitar
  • Thierry Eliez – piano
  • Elliot Wolff – keyboards, drum programming
  • Teddy F. White – guitar
  • Al Turner – bass guitar
  • Buster Marbury – drums
  • Michael Boddicker – keyboards, programming
  • Larry Fratangelo – percussion
  • Hubert Eaves III – keyboards, drum programming
  • Charles Scales – synthesizer
  • Rick Iantosca – acoustic guitar
  • Oliver Leiber – keyboards, drum programming, guitar
  • Jason Miles – keyboards
  • Dominique Bertram – bass guitar
  • Joshua Thompson – keyboards, guitar, synthesizer
  • Vernon Black – guitar
  • Randy Waldman – keyboards
  • Onita Sanders – harp
  • André Ceccarelli – drums
  • Louis Biancaniello – keyboards, programming
  • Larry Williams – programming
  • David Foster – keyboards, programming
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Candy Dulfer – saxophone
  • Guy Vaughn – drum programming
  • David Townsend – guitar
  • Narada Michael Walden – drums, programming
  • Nat Adderley Jr. – keyboards
  • Bobby Wooten – keyboards, electric piano, drum programming, synthesizer
  • David Boruff – saxophone
  • Rudolph Stansfield – piano
  • Jean-Marc Benais – guitar
  • Gene Lennon – programming
  • Skip Anderson – keyboards
  • Cindy Mizelle – background vocals
  • Jesse Richardson – background vocals
  • Sandra Feva – background vocals
  • Brenda Corbett – background vocals
  • Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
  • Diane Green – background vocals
  • Sherry Fox – background vocals
  • Portia Griffin – background vocals
  • Margaret Branch – background vocals
  • Jarvis Barker – background vocals
  • Nikita Germaine – background vocals
  • Skyler Jett – background vocals
  • Jeanie Tracy – background vocals
  • Tony Lindsay – background vocals
  • Gwen Guthrie – background vocals
  • Tawatha Agee – background vocals
  • Donna Davis – background vocals
  • Marj Harber – background vocals
  • Esther Ridgeway – background vocals
  • Gloria Ridgeway – background vocals
  • Gracie Ridgeway – background vocals

References[edit]

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  2. ^ AllMusic review
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  4. ^ Linden, Amy (July 26, 1991). “What You See Is What You Sweat”. Entertainment Weekly.
  5. ^ “Picks and Pans Review: What You See Is What You Sweat”. People Magazine. August 5, 1991.
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