One Love – One Dream

One Love – One Dream
Studio album by
Jeffrey Osborne
ReleasedJuly 15, 1988
Length50:47
LabelA&M
Producer
Jeffrey Osborne chronology
Emotional
(1986) 		One Love – One Dream
(1988) 		Only Human
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Los Angeles Times[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

One Love – One Dream is the fifth studio album by American singer Jeffrey Osborne. It was released by A&M Records on July 15, 1988.[5][6] The album reached number 12 on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[7]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times deemed the album "pop-oriented material that's better than the featherweight fare that, say, Rick Astley records, but that still underutilizes Osborne's abilities."[3] The Christian Science Monitor thought that "as in the past, the ballads here are the strongest material, especially 'Family' and 'My Heart Can Wait Forever'."[8] People called the album "disappointing," writing that it's "rife with paltry pop like the title track ... failed funk like 'She's on the Left', and frilly would-be show tunes like 'True Believers'."[9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."One Love – One Dream"
Wolinski4:56
2."All Because of You"
  • Osborne
  • Brookins
4:36
3."She's on the Left"
  • Osborne
  • Brookins
4:59
4."Can't Go Back on a Promise"
  • Edward Grenga
  • Osborne
  • Ross Vannelli
  • Osborne
  • Vannelli
4:37
5."True Believers"
  • Osborne
  • Roberts
4:11
6."La Cuenta, Por Favor"OsborneOsborne4:47
7."The Family"
  • Andy Goldmark
  • Bruce Roberts
  • Osborne
  • Goldmark
  • Roberts
4:22
8."My Heart Can Wait Forever"
  • Osborne
  • Vannelli
  • Osborne
  • Vannelli
3:30
9."(You Can't Get) Love from a Stone"OsborneOsborne5:28
10."Cindy"
  • Osborne
  • Washington
4:25
11."Social Climbers"
Goldmark4:43

Notes

  • "Social Climbers" appears on the CD version of One Love – One Dream only.

Personnel

Performers and Musicians

  • Jeffrey Osborne – lead and backing vocals, arrangements (1, 2, 4, 6-10), keyboards (6), horn arrangements (6, 9), drum programming (10)
  • David "Hawk" Wolinski – keyboards (1), LinnDrum (1), arrangements (1)
  • Robert Brookins – keyboards (2, 3, 9), synth bass (2, 9), drum machine programming (2), LinnDrum programming (3), arrangements (3)
  • Ed Grenga – keyboards (4), synthesizer programming (4), arrangements (4)
  • Bobby Lyle – keyboards (5, 7, 8, 10)
  • Philip Woo – keyboards (5, 10)
  • Khaliq Glover – synthesizer programming (6, 10)
  • Andy Goldmark – keyboards (7, 11), programming (7, 11)
  • Bruce Roberts – keyboards (7, 11), programming (7, 11)
  • Randy Kerber – synth strings (7)
  • Franne Golde – keyboards (11), programming (11), backing vocals (11)
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (1, 5–7, 10, 11)
  • Maitland Ward – guitar (4)
  • Michael Landau – guitar (6, 8)
  • Freddie Washington – bass (4, 7, 8, 10), arrangements (10)
  • Abraham Laboriel – bass (5, 6)
  • Freddy Lawson – bass (9)
  • Ricky Lawson – drums (4, 6, 8–10)
  • John Robinson – drums (5)
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion (4-7, 9)
  • Donny Osborne – bongos (9)
  • Gerald Albright – saxophone (2)
  • Dan Higgins – saxophone (6, 9)
  • Kirk Whalum – tenor saxophone (6, 9)
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (6, 9)
  • Gary Grant – trumpet (6, 9)
  • Jerry Hey – trumpet (6, 9), horn arrangements (9)
  • Ross Vannelli – arrangements (4, 8)
  • Lynn Davis – backing vocals (1–3, 6, 7, 9–11)
  • Joey Diggs – backing vocals (1-4, 6-11)
  • Portia Griffin – backing vocals (1-5, 8, 9, 11)
  • Natalie Jackson – backing vocals (1, 2)
  • Alex Brown – backing vocals (3, 6, 7, 10, 11)
  • Johnny Gill – backing vocals (4, 8, 9)
  • Marva Barnes – backing vocals (4-11)
  • Marcy Levy – backing vocals (5)
  • Keith John – backing vocals (6, 7, 8)

Strings (Tracks 2, 5, 8 & 10)

  • George Del Barrio – arrangements and conductor (2, 8)
  • Jeremy Lubbock – arrangements and conductor (5, 10)
  • Ronald Cooper, Larry Corbett, Ernie Ehrhardt, Suzie Katayama, Ron Leonard and David Speltz – cello
  • Marylin Baker, Kenneth Burward-Hoy, Alan DeVeritch and Pamela Goldsmith – viola
  • Ron Clark, Isabelle Daskoff, Ronald Folsom, Joseph Goodman, Bill Hybel, William Hymanson, Peter Kent, Brian Leonard, Gordon Marron, Stanley Plummer, Debra Price, Jay Rosen, Marshall Sosson and Shari Zippert – violin

Production and Technical

  • Jeffrey Osborne – producer
  • David Wolinski – producer (1)
  • Robert Brookins – producer (2, 3)
  • Ross Vannelli – producer (4, 8)
  • Bruce Roberts – producer (5, 7, 11)
  • Andy Goldmark – producer (7, 11)
  • Freddie Washington – producer (10)
  • Donny Osborne – production assistant
  • Khaliq Glover – recording
  • Tommy Vicari – recording, mixing
  • Taavi Mote – mixing
  • Bryant Arnett – assistant engineer
  • Brian Gardner – mastering
  • Sherri Yvette Osborne – production coordinator
  • Chuck Beeson – art direction
  • Melanie Nielsen – design
  • Victoria Pearson – photography
  • Jack Nelson – management

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Jeffrey Osbourne: One Love – One Dream". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. pp. 341–342.
  3. ^ a b Johnson, Connie (28 Aug 1988). "Featherweight Fare". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 65.
  4. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 523.
  5. ^ Jeffrey Osborne: One Love – One Dream. A&M Records. 1988.
  6. ^ "Jet's Top 20 Albums". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. December 5, 1988 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b "Jeffrey Osborne Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard.
  8. ^ Duncan, Amy (17 Aug 1988). "ROCK/POP/JAZZ". The Christian Science Monitor. Arts.
  9. ^ Hiltbrand, David (September 19, 1988). "Song". People. 30 (12): 22.
  10. ^ "Jeffrey Osborne Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
  11. ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved February 13, 2021.