Rock Me Tonight
Rock Me Tonight is the platinum-selling 1985 debut album from American R&B/Soul singer Freddie Jackson. Released on April 28, 1985, the album yielded four top-10 singles on the U.S. R&B chart, with the first two, "You Are My Lady" and "Rock Me Tonight ", reaching number one. The latter two, "Love Is Just a Touch Away" and "He'll Never Love You", peaked at Nos. 9 and 8, respectively. The album contains a cover of the Billie Holiday classic "Good Morning Heartache". The success of Rock Me Tonight garnered Jackson a Grammy Award nomination in 1986 for Best New Artist, losing out to Sade. Rock Me Tonight went on to top the R&B Albums chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks, and peaked inside the Top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Personnel
- Freddie Jackson – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Barry Eastmond – keyboards, synthesizers, Roland TR-808 drum programming
- Eric Rehl – synthesizers
- Paul Laurence – Yamaha DX7, Oberheim DMX drum programming, keyboards, Kurzweil synthesizer, backing vocals
- Robert Aries – keyboards, Kurzweil synthesizer, drum programming
- Ira Siegel – acoustic guitar, guitars
- Fareed Abdul-Haqq – guitars
- Clarence Brice – guitars
- Mike "Dino" Campbell – guitars
- Thomas J. Flammia – guitars
- Wayne Brathwaite – bass
- Timmy Allen – bass
- Bernard Davis – drums
- Richard Rodriguez – drums
- Joel Rosenblatt – drums
- Terry Silverlight – drums
- Buddy Williams – drums
- Bashiri Johnson – percussion
- Steve Kroon – percussion
- V. Jeffrey Smith – saxophone
- Stanley Turrentine – sax solo
- Janice Dempsey – backing vocals
- Dolly Eastmond – backing vocals
- Danny Madden – backing vocals
- Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals
- Melba Moore – backing vocals
- B.J. Nelson – backing vocals
- Lillo Thomas – backing vocals
- Audrey Wheeler – backing vocals
- Reggie King – backing vocals
Production
- Executive Producers – Beau Huggins and Varnell Johnson
- Producers – Barry Eastmond ; Paul Laurence ; Robert Aries.
- Engineers – Ron Banks ; Carl Beatty and Steve Goldman ; Frank Heller, Peter Robbins and Bob Rose.
- Second Engineer – Joe Marno
- Assistant Engineers – Dean Cochren, Larry DeCarmine, Cathy Goode, Frank Heller and Kurt Upper ; Mike Nicolette.
- Track 5 mixed by Steve Goldman at Right Track Recording.
- Track 8 mixed by Peter Robbins at Unique Recording Studios.
- Mastered by Jack Skinner at Sterling Sound and Eddy Schreyer at Capitol Mastering.
- Production Coordination – Zack Vaz
- Art Direction – Roy Kohara
- Design – Roland Young
- Photography – Chris Callis
- Administrator – Anne Thomas
- Management – Hush Productions