''Try My Love'' is an R&B studio album by

Táta Vega Táta Vega (born Carmen Rosa Vega, October 7, 1951) is an American vocalist, whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres. Early life Vega was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York and raised between New York, Chicago, Texas, P ...

. It is her third solo album and was released on Motown's

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label in late 1978. While not as critically acclaimed as her two previous albums, it received the greatest success on

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and R&B album charts. The double-sided 12 inch single "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby/Get It Up For Love" hit the Top 20 on Billboard's Dance Music charts. "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" was also a hit on Billboard's R&B charts. It was her most successful single during her Motown years.

Track listing

The following is the track listing from the original vinyl LP. ;Side One: #"Come On and Try My Love" (David Jones, Jr., Wade Brown, Jr., Michael Margerum) - 3:20 #"I Need You Now" (

Brian Holland Brian Holland (born February 15, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound, and numerous hi ...

, Edward Holland, Jr.) - 3:34* #"Get It Up for Love" (

Ned Doheny Patrick Anson "Ned" Doheny (born March 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Malibu, California, who has recorded eight albums and performed with other artists including Don Henley and Glenn Frey of the Eagles, JD So ...

) - 6:09* #"If Love Must Go" (

Will Jennings Wilbur Herschel Jennings (June 27, 1944 – September 6, 2024) was an American lyricist. He was known for writing the songs " Up Where We Belong", " Higher Love", " Tears in Heaven" and "My Heart Will Go On". He was inducted into the Songwriter ...

) - 4:11 #"Magic Feeling" (

Don Grusin Donald Henri Grusin (born April 22, 1941) is an American jazz keyboardist, composer, and record producer. He is the younger brother of Dave Grusin. Career Don Grusin grew up in Littleton, Colorado. His father, a native of Latvia, was a classica ...

, Dave Griffin,

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) - 3:51* ;Side Two: #"Gonna Do My Best to Love You" (

Brenda Russell Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and keyboardist. Russell has a diverse musical range which encompasses Rhythm and blues, R&B, pop music, pop, soul music, soul, dance music, dance, and ...

, Brian Russell,

David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s befor ...

) - 4:23* #"I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" (Harold Johnson, Gwen Cathey) - 4:21 #"Whopper Bopper Show Stopper" (Daniel Saunders) - 3:15* #"In The Morning" ( Marlo Henderson) - 4:15* , the album has not been commercially released on CD. The 12-inch version of "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" was released on Motown's 1996

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, ''Funkology, Vol. 3: Dance Divas''. "Get It Up for Love" a

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of the

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'' track, has also appeared in several dance compilations, including ''Motown Disco: Soulful Grooves from the '70s and '80s.'' "Whopper Bopper Show Stopper" was a

of the title track of the 1976 album by Jr. Walker & the All-Stars. The latter was written by All-Stars keyboardist Danny Saunders. On February 18, 2014, the album (including five bonus tracks) was released digitally.

Production

*Producer: Winston Monseque; except *co-produced by Andre Fisher *Arranger: Al Johnson; except *arranged by Andre Fisher *Recording Engineers:

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& Kelly Kotera *Mixing Engineer: Kelly Kotera *Featuring on bass:

Jermaine Jackson Jermaine LaJuane Jacksun (né Jackson; born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter and bassist. He is known for being a member of the Jackson family. From 1964 to 1975, Jermaine was second vocalist after his brother Michael of the ...

Jermaine Jackson as a guest & side projects 1975-2011" http://www.jermainejacksonmusic.com/Site/As_a_guest_%26_side_projects.html/ref> *Design: Norm Ung *Photography: Suzanne Nyergas *Lettering: Vigon Nahas Vigon *Executive Producer & Personal Management: Winston Monseque

Background vocals

* Stephanie Spruill * Yolande Howard * Patti Brooks (courtesy of Casablanca Records & Filmworks) *

(courtesy of Rocket Records)

References

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