What You See Is What You Sweat

What You See Is What You Sweat
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	June 25, 1991
Genre	New jack swing[1]
Label	Arista
Producer	Clive Davis (exec.) Burt Bacharach Carole Bayer Sager David "Pic" Conley Aretha Franklin Michel Legrand Oliver Leiber Gene Lennon Bruce Roberts Joshua Thompson David Townsend Luther Vandross Narada Michael Walden Elliot Wolff
Aretha Franklin chronology
Through The Storm (1989) What You See Is What You Sweat (1991) Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1992)
Singles from What You See Is What You Sweat
"Everyday People" Released: June 1991 "Someone Else's Eyes" Released: September 1991 "What You See Is What You Sweat" Released: 1991 "Ever Changing Times" Released: January 1992

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Calgary Herald	C−[3]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[4]
NME	4/10[5]
People Magazine	(mixed)[6]

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 number 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

Personnel

• 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

Charts

References

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