Red Hot Rhythm & Blues

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Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
Studio album by Diana Ross
Released	May 1987
Recorded	1986–1987
Genre	R&B/soul
Length	43:56 (US: 38:11)
Label	EMI (UK) RCA (US)
Producer	Tom Dowd, Luther Vandross
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Diana Ross chronology
Eaten Alive (1985) Red Hot Rhythm & Blues (1987) Workin' Overtime (1989)
Singles from Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
"Dirty Looks / So Close" Released: April 29, 1987 "Tell Me Again / I Am Me" Released: July 18, 1987 "Shockwaves / I Am Me" Released: July 18, 1987 (U.K. release only) "Mr. Lee" Released: January 12, 1988

Red Hot Rhythm & Blues is a 1987 album released by Diana Ross on the RCA label. The album was the last contractual album the singer released on RCA before heading back to Motown Records the end of the following year. The album yielded the top 20 R&B and UK top 50 hit, "Dirty Looks," written by Richard Scher & Lotti Golden and the lush and atmospheric Luther Vandross-produced ballad "It's Hard for Me to Say". The album also included cover versions of several R&B classics, including The Bobbettes' "Mr. Lee" (a PWL remix of which charted as a single in the UK), Jackie Ross' "Selfish One," Etta James' "Tell Mama", and The Drifters' "There Goes My Baby". A Shep Pettibone remix of "Shockwaves" was released as a single in the UK, but it narrowly failed to chart.

The album was promoted with a TV special featuring Etta James, Little Richard, Billy Dee Williams, LL Cool J and Run DMC. The tracks "Mr Lee" and "Tell Mama" did not feature on the US version of the album and "Dirty Looks" was a different mix to that on the UK version. The cover photography was by Herb Ritts.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Dirty Looks" (Richard Scher, Lotti Golden) – 3:21 (different mix to US release, which runs at 4:10)
2. "Stranger in Paradise" (John Capek, Amy Sky) – 3:59
3. "Summertime" (Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson) – 4:04
4. "Shine" (Mick Hucknall) – 3:32
5. "Tell Me Again" (Wintley Phipps) – 3:13
6. "Mr. Lee" (Emma Pought, Jannie Pought, Helen Gather, Laura Webb, Reather Dixon) – 3:07 (song not included on US release)

Side B

1. "Tell Mama" (Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Wilbur Terrell) – 3:38 (song not included on US release)
2. "Selfish One" (Carl Smith, Wilfred McKinley) – 3:31
3. "Cross My Heart" (Sharon Robinson) – 4:09
4. "There Goes My Baby" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, George Treadwell, Lover Patterson) – 3:03
5. "It's Hard for Me to Say" (Luther Vandross) – 4:43
6. "Shockwaves" (Diana Ross, Mark Cawley, Bill Wray) – 3:46

Personnel

• Diana Ross – vocals
• Luther Vandross – background vocals
• John Capek – keyboards
• Chuck Rainey – bass
• Tommy Vig – drums, percussion
• Darryl Tookes – background vocals
• Jocelyn Brown – background vocals
• Dennis Collins – background vocals
• Francisco Centeno – bass
• Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
• Benny Diggs – background vocals
• Nathan East – bass
• Steve Farris – guitar
• Steve Ferrone – drums, percussion
• Sammy Figueroa – percussion
• Steve Gadd – drums, percussion
• Eric Gale – guitar
• Steve Goldstein – synthesizer
• Lani Groves – background vocals
• Ivan Hampden – drums
• Joseph Joubert – keyboards
• Jason Miles – synthesizer
• Jeff Mironov – guitar
• Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
• Richard Tee – keyboards