''Don't Stop'' is the third solo album by

Jeffrey Osborne Jeffrey Linton Osborne (born March 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and lyricist. He is the former drummer and lead singer of the American R&B/soul group L.T.D., with whom he began his musical career in 1970. Biography Earl ...

, released on September 21, 1984.

Reception

The album reached #39 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and #7 on the R&B album chart. The title song as well as the two other singles, "The Borderlines" and "Let Me Know", all reached #6, #7, and #44 on the R&B Singles Chart.

Track listing

#"Don't Stop" (

David Batteau David Hurst Batteau (born June 25, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter. Batteau is the son of Blanca Batteau and Dr. Dwight Wayne Batteau, of Harvard University and Tufts University. He is the brother of singer-songwriter Robin Batteau. H ...

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) - 4:09 #"Let Me Know" (Geoffrey Brillhart Leib, Jeffrey Osborne) - 5:26 #"The Borderlines" (Raymond Jones) - 5:27 #"The Power" (Don Freeman, Warren Giancaterino, Jeffrey Osborne) - 4:51 #"Is It Right" (Jeffrey Osborne, David Wolinski) - 4:46 #"You Can't Be Serious" (Don Freeman, Jeffrey Osborne) - 4:37 #"Crazy 'Bout Cha" (Don Freeman, Jeffrey Osborne) - 3:31 #"Hot Coals" (Don Freeman, Jeffrey Osborne) - 3:27 #"Live for Today" (David Batteau, Don Freeman, Jeffrey Osborne) - 4:26

Personnel

Performers and Musicians * Jeffrey Osborne – lead vocals, backing vocals (1-7),

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(3), drum machine programming (4, 9) *

George Duke George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a pr ...

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(1),

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(1, 5, 6, 7), acoustic piano (2),

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(2, 7), Yamaha PF10 (2), synth solo (2, 6), E-mu Emulator (3),

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(6),

Yamaha DX7 The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989. It was the first successful digital synthesizer and is one of the best-selling synthesizers in history, selling more than 200,000 units. In the early 1980 ...

(7),

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(7) *

– Yamaha DX7 (1),

Roland Jupiter 8 The Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981. The Jupiter-8 was Roland's flagship synthesizer for the first half of the 1980s. Approximately 3300 units have ...

(1) * Raymond Jones – Yamaha DX7 (3), Roland Jupiter 8 (3),

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(3) *

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– synthesizer programming (3, 8) * Derek Nakamoto – synthesizer programming (4, 6), special effects (4, 6), Fairlight programming (6) * Don Freeman – Yamaha DX7 (4, 6, 8),

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(4), Fairlight CMI (6), drum machine programming (6, 8, 9), Roland Jupiter 8 (8), PPG Wave 2.2 (8), acoustic piano (9), Rhodes (9) * David Wolinski – Yamaha DX7 (5), Roland Jupiter 8 (5),

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(5), Rhodes (5), drum machine programming (5) * John Barnes – Fairlight CMI (9) *

Michael Sembello Michael Andrew Sembello (born April 17, 1954) is an American singer, guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, composer and producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sembello was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his 1983 song " ...

– guitar (1) *

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musi ...

– guitar (2, 3, 4, 6-9) *

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– guitar (5) * Louis Johnson – bass (1, 8, 9) * Freddie Washington – bass (2, 5, 6, 7) *

Abraham Laboriel Abraham Laboriel López Sr. (born July 17, 1947) is a Mexican-American bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. ''Guitar Player'' magazine called him "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the f ...

– bass (9) *

Steve Ferrone Steve Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer. He is known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994 to 2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average Whi ...

– drums (1, 2, 7), hi-hat (9) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (2, 3, 4, 8, 9), cowbell (6), tambourine (6) * George Del Barrio – string arrangements (2, 7) * Catherine Gotthoffer – harp (2, 7) * Ron Cooper, Ray Kelley, Earl Madison and Fred Seykora – cello (2, 7) * Rollice Dale, Pam Goldsmith, Allan Harshman and Dave Schwartz – viola (2, 7) * Arnold Belnick, Assa Drori, Henry Ferber, Ron Folsom, Dave Frisina, Jimmy Getzoff, Reg Hill, Karen Jones, Joy Lyle, Irma Neumann, Stan Plummer and Sid Sharp – violin (2, 7) *

Syreeta Wright Syreeta Wright (February 28, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights we ...

– backing vocals (1) * Portia Griffin – backing vocals (2, 7) * Lynn Davis – backing vocals (4, 6) * Tremaine Hawkins – backing vocals (5) *

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, Lynn Davis, Tremaine Hawkins,

Howard Hewett Howard Hewett Jr. (born October 1, 1955) is an American singer–songwriter. Hewett rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the group Shalamar. In 1985, he left the group to pursue his solo career, but he later returned to the group in 2001. He sig ...

James Ingram James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Awards, Academy Award nominee for Academy Award for Best Original ...

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Kenny Loggins Kenneth Clark Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977. His ...

and Jeffrey Osborne – choir (9) Production and Technical * Producer – George Duke * Production Assistance – Constance DeGuzman * Engineer and Remix –

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* Assistant Engineers – Ray Blair, Frank Dookun, Bino Espinoza, Mark Ettel, Steve Evans, Mitch Gibson, Danny Kopelson, Dave Luke, Sharon Rice, Nick Spigel and Erik Zobler. * Mastered by

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Bernie Grundman Mastering Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mi ...

(Hollywood, CA). * Art Direction – Chuck Beeson * Design – Chuck Beeson and John Heiden * Photography –

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* Stylist – Cecille Parker * Management – Jack Nelson & Associates * Recorded at

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, The Complex and Foot On The Hill Studio (Los Angeles, CA); Le Gonks West and Soundcastle (Hollywood, CA);

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(Berkeley, CA).

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Singles

In popular culture

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danced to "The Borderlines" in a 1985 '' Santa Barbara'' episode where Osborne made a guest appearance as himself.

References

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