''One Love – One Dream'' is the fifth studio album by American singer

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. (band), L.T.D., with whom he began his musical career in 1970. B ...

. It was released by

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on July 15, 1988. The album reached number 12 on the US ''

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chart.

Critical reception

The ''

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'' 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." ''

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'' thought that "as in the past, the ballads here are the strongest material, especially 'Family' and 'My Heart Can Wait Forever'." ''

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'' 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'."

Track listing

Notes *"Social Climbers" appears on the CD version of ''One Love – One Dream'' only.

Personnel

Performers and Musicians * Jeffrey Osborne – lead vocals, backing vocals, arrangements (1, 2, 4, 6-10), keyboards (6), horn arrangements (6, 9), drum programming (10) * David "Hawk" Wolinski – keyboards (1),

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(1), arrangements (1) *

Robert Brookins Robert Brookins (October 7, 1962 – April 15, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, producer and musician. A member of the band Earth, Wind & Fire he also worked with artists such as George Duke, Stephanie Mills, Stanley Clarke and The Whis ...

– 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 Robert Lyle (born March 11, 1944) is an American jazz pianist/organist and educator. Early life Lyle was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 11, 1944, to parents Robert and Elise Lyle. He grew up in a musical household after the family moved fr ...

– 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 Randy Kerber (born September 25, 1958) is an American composer, orchestrator and keyboard player, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema. Kerber was born in Encino, California. He began his first national tour with Bette Midler in ...

– synth strings (7) *

Franne Golde Francine Golde, better known as Franne Golde or Frannie Golde, is an American songwriter, musician, singer and writer. She is Songwriter's Hall Of Fame nominee and her songs have appeared on more than 100 million records sold worldwide. Golde h ...

– keyboards (11), programming (11), backing vocals (11) *

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American Jazz fusion, fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. In addition to being a recording artist in his own right, Jackson is also a session player, with a career ...

– guitars (1, 5-7, 10, 11) * Maitland Ward – guitars (4) *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record-producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitchel ...

– guitars (6, 8) * Freddie Washington – bass (4, 7, 8, 10), arrangements (10) *

Abraham Laboriel Abraham Laboriel López (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 fathe ...

– bass (5, 6) * Freddy Lawson – bass (9) *

Ricky Lawson William Riser III (November 8, 1954 – December 23, 2013), better known as Ricky Lawson or Ricky Remo, was an American drummer and composer. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he worked extensively as a session musician, collaborating with Stev ...

– drums (4, 6, 8-10) * John Robinson – drums (5) *

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– percussion (4-7, 9) * Donny Osborne –

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(9) *

Gerald Albright Gerald Albright (born August 30, 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for the albums ''24/7 (Gerald Albright and Norman Brown album), 24/7'' in 2012 and ''Slam Dunk'' in 2014 and was nominated for ''New Beginnings (Gerald Albr ...

– saxophone (2) *

Dan Higgins Dan Higgins (born January 28, 1957, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American saxophone and woodwind player. He has worked with such artists as John Williams, Seth MacFarlane, Aerosmith, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, M ...

– saxophones (6, 9) *

Kirk Whalum Kirk Whalum (born July 11, 1958) is an American R&B and smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. Whalum has recorded a series of commercially and critically acclaimed solo studio albums. Along with several film soundtracks, with music ranging fro ...

– tenor saxophone (6, 9) *

Bill Reichenbach Jr. William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He is the son of Bill Reichenbach, who was the drummer for Charlie Byrd from 1962 to 1973. He is best known as a session musician for television, ...

– trombone (6, 9) * Gary Grant – trumpet (6, 9) *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', '' Rock with Y ...

– 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 Johnny Gill Jr. (born May 22, 1966) is an American singer and songwriter. He is the sixth and final member of the R&B/ pop group New Edition and was also a member of the supergroup called LSG, with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat. Gill has rel ...

– backing vocals (4, 8, 9) * Marva Barnes – backing vocals (4-11) *

Marcy Levy Marcella Levy (born June 21, 1952), known professionally as Marcy Levy and (later in her career) Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit " Lay Down Sally" and released her debut ...

– backing vocals (5) * Keith John – backing vocals (6-8) Strings (Tracks 2, 5, 8 & 10) * George Del Barrio – arrangements and conductor (2, 8) *

Jeremy Lubbock Jeremy Michael Lubbock (4 June 1931 – 29 January 2021) was a Grammy-winning English pianist, conductor, orchestrator, music producer, arranger, composer, and songwriter. Life and career Born in Kensington, London, he learned piano as ...

– 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 Thomas Vicari (born August 24, 1948) is an American recording engineer, mixing engineer, record producer and scoring mixer known for his work with Quincy Jones, Gino Vannelli, Nicholas Britell, Thomas Newman, Prince, George Duke and Barbra Stre ...

– recording, mixing * Taavi Mote – mixing * Bryant Arnett – assistant engineer *

Brian Gardner Brian Knapp Gardner, also known as Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, is an American mastering engineer. He has worked on a number of recordings since the mid-1960s, including classic rock, funk, disco, alternative rock, R&B, hip hop, pop punk and dance-p ...

– mastering at

Bernie Grundman Mastering Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) 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 Chri ...

(Hollywood, California) * Donny Osborne – production assistant * Sherri Yvette Osborne – production coordinator * Chuck Beeson – art direction * Melanie Nielsen – design * Victoria Pearson – photography * Jack Nelson – management

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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