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Gems
Gems
Studio album by Patti LaBelle
Released	June 7, 1994
Genre	R&B
Length	57:30
Label	MCA
Producer	Lisa Dalbello; James "Budd" Ellison; Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis; Sami McKinney; K.C. Porter; Teddy Riley; Bunny Sigler; Nathaniel "Crockett" Wilkie; James Wright;
Patti LaBelle chronology

Gems is the twelfth studio album by American singer Patti LaBelle. It was released by MCA Records on June 7, 1994, in the United States. The album features a hip-hop-esque remake of DeBarge's 1983 hit, "All This Love", produced by Teddy Riley. Gems peaked at number forty-eight on the US Billboard 200 and went gold with sales shipping past the 500,000 mark. The album is notable for the single "The Right Kinda Lover", which brought LaBelle a new legion of fans thanks to its production by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and its video which had LaBelle performing a seductress who chooses "the right mate" through a machine and if one man rubbed her the wrong way, she'd use a button to get rid of them.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[2]

AllMusic editor Jose F. Promis found that Gems "doesn't necessarily rank as one of the singer's crowning achievements, but as the title (and cliché) implies, this set certainly offers more than a few gems to unearth. Gems also features a couple of prolific productions courtesy of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (on the set's up-tempo first single, "The Right Kinda Lover") and new jack swing maestro Teddy Riley (on LaBelle's mellow yet hypnotic cover of DeBarge's "All This Love"). The true standout, however, is "Stay in My Corner." That song, with its gospel undertones, features Labelle wailing as only she can, holding out her famous long notes and delivering a truly mesmerizing performance."^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I'm in Love"	Denise Rich Patti LaBelle Sami McKinney Fred White	K.C. Porter McKinney	4:16
2.	"All This Love"	El DeBarge Teddy Riley Rodney Jerkins	Riley	5:01
3.	"The Right Kinda Lover"	Ann Bennett-Nesby James Harris III Terry Lewis Jimmy Wright	Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Wright	4:52
4.	"This Word Is All"	Carol Duboc LaBelle McKinney Wright	Riley	4:40
5.	"Too Good to Be Through"	Harris Lewis	Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Wright	4:19
6.	"I Never Stopped Loving You"	Alex Brown McKinney Kenny Moore	Porter McKinney	5:00
7.	"Stay in My Corner"	Wade Flemons Bobby Miller Barrett Strong	James "Budd" Ellison	5:21
8.	"If I Didn't Have You"	Eugene "Lambchops" Curry Bunny Sigler	Sigler	4:58
9.	"I Can't Tell My Heart What to Do"	McKinney Steve Shockley Aaron Smith	Porter McKinney	4:47
10.	"Time Will Tell"	McKinney Moore Allee Willis	Porter McKinney	4:59
11.	"Our World"	Ellison LaBelle McKinney Nathaniel "Crockett" Wilkie	Ellison Wilkie (ass.)	5:00
12.	"Come As You Are"	Lisa Dal Bello McKinney	Porter McKinney Lisa Dalbello	4:17
Total length:				57:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[3]	132
US Billboard 200^[4]	48
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[5]	7
Top 75 R&B Albums (Cash Box)^[6]	5
Top 100 Pop Albums (Cash Box)	48