Posh (album)
Posh is a 1980 album released by R&B singer Patrice Rushen, her third album for Elektra Records and sixth album overall. The album was recently re-released on Wounded Bird Records, as were several other Rushen albums from the time. Following the Pizzazz album, Posh was the continuation of a string of R&B/pop albums that established Rushen as an R&B singer.
"Look Up!," "I Need Your Love," "The Funk Won't Let You Down," "Time Will Tell" highlighted Patrice's reach into R&B territory. Whereas, songs such as the Stevie Wonder-esque "I Need Your Love" and the rock-leaning "Time Will Tell" were representative of her new progressive sound.
This album was released just before her 1982 breakthrough album, Straight from the Heart.
Track listing
- "Never Gonna Give You Up " - 6:50
- "Don't Blame Me" - 6:31
- "Look Up!" - 3:41
- "I Need Your Love" - 4:25
- "Time Will Tell" - 5:09
- "The Dream" - 4:54
- "The Funk Won't Let You Down" - 7:35
- "This Is All I Really Know" ; Featuring Lynn Davis - 4:41
Personnel
- Patrice Rushen – lead and backing vocals, percussion, arrangements, acoustic piano, synth solo, rhythm arrangements, electric piano, synthesizers, bass, synth strings, vocal arrangements
- Charles Mims Jr. – acoustic piano, synthesizers, rhythm arrangements
- Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar, acoustic guitar
- David T. Walker – guitar
- Wali Ali – lead vocals, guitar
- Marlo Henderson – guitar
- Freddie Washington – bass, backing vocals, rhythm arrangements
- James Gadson – drums
- Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums
- Melvin Webb – drums
- Gerry Brown – drums
- Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
- Kenneth Yerke – high whistling
- Roy Galloway – backing vocals
- Lynn Davis – backing vocals, vocal ad-lib solo, vocal arrangements
- Wanda Vaughn – backing vocals
- Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals
- Kevin R. Carter Sr.
- Ulysses Duprée
- Tony Lewis
- Charles Mims Jr.
- Lindsey Redmond
- Larry Robinson
- Patrice Rushen
- Freddie Washington
- Don Myrick – alto saxophone
- William Green – tenor saxophone
- Clay Lawrey – trombone, baritone
- Maurice Spears – bass trombone
- Oscar Brashear – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Raymond Lee Brown – trumpet, flugelhorn, flugelhorn solo, horn contractor
- Charles Veal Jr. – concertmaster, violin solo
- Rosemary McLean – contractor
- Paula Hochhalter and Nils Oliver – cello
- Denyse Buffam, Rollice Dale, Virginia Majewski and Barbara Thomason – viola
- Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Assa Drori, Frank Foster, Endre Granat, Bob Sanov, Sheldon Sanov, Marcia Van Dyke, Dorothy Wade and Kenneth Yerke – violin
Production
- Patrice Rushen – producer, executive producer
- Charles Mims Jr. – producer
- Freddie Washington – production assistance
- Peter Chaikin – recording engineer
- Phil Moores – additional recording
- Jeff Titmus – additional rhythm recording
- F. Byron Clark – remixing
- Jeff Sanders – mastering
- Crystal Sound – mastering location
- Ron Coro – art direction, design
- Norm Ung – art direction, design
- Bobby Holland – photography
- Shayne Fair – additional photography
- Pam Robinson – additional photography
- Joel Leonard – set design consultant