Get Up on It by Keith Sweat (CD, Apr-1994, Elektra)

Album Features
UPC:	075596155021
Artist:	Keith Sweat
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1994
Record Label:	Elektra
Genre:	R&B

Track Listing
1. Interlude (How Do You Like It?)
2. How Do You Like It?, Pt. 1
3. It Gets Better
4. Get Up on It
5. Feels So Good
6. How Do You Like It?, Pt. 2
7. Intermission Break
8. My Whole World
9. Grind on You
10. When I Give My Love
11. Put Your Lovin' Through the Test
12. Telephone Love
13. Come Into My Bedroom
14. For You (You Got Everything)

Details
Playing Time:	54 min.
Contributing Artists:	Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, Roger Troutman, Kut Klose, Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez
Distributor:	WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Keith Sweat (vocals, keyboards); Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (rap vocals); Fitzgerald Scott (various instruments, background vocals); Jerry Flowers, Eric McCaine, William Ward (various instruments); Roger Troutman (keyboards); Athena Cage, Gary Jenkins, Kut Klose (background vocals).Producers include: Keith Sweat, Fitzgerald Scott, Joe Jefferson, Eric McCaine.Personnel: Keith Sweat (keyboards, background vocals); Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (rap vocals); Fitzgerald Scott (keyboards, background vocals); Roger Troutman (keyboards); Gary Jenkins, Joseph B. Jefferson, Kut Klose, Athena Cage (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Ron Shaffer; Karl Heilbron; Michael French.Audio Remixers: Fitzgerald Scott; Keith Sweat.Photographer: Gerhard Yurkovic.After scoring massive success with his first two albums, Make It Last Forever and I'll Give All My Love to You, Keith Sweat's third album, Keep It Comin', signaled something of a creative and commercial slump for the new jack pioneer, which continued through 1994's Get Up on It. However, Get Up on It is not a bad album by any means. In fact, the set is classic Keith Sweat, filled to the brim with the pleading ballads that made this Harlem crooner so popular. Sweat began to utilize female background vocals, courtesy of Kut Klose, to full effect on this album, especially on the hit title track (one of the album's shining moments), a trend that he perfected on his huge 1996 self-titled comeback album. So Get Up on It finds Sweat in a stage of transition, leaving the formula that began to grow stale on Keep It Comin' and beginning to feature female backing vocals at center stage, somewhat similar to what Barry White and Luther Vandross had done before him. Get Up on It churned out two other singles, the up-tempo yet slightly unimaginative "How Do You Like It?" (which, as the set's lead single, didn't really work to catapult the album to massive early sales) and the big ballad "When I Give My Love," which is pure Keith Sweat. Other standouts include "Put Your Loving Through the Test," featuring the late Roger Troutman, and "Telephone Love." For fans of classic Keith Sweat, R&B ballads, and mid-tempo grooves, this album will do, although it doesn't rank as one of the more essential pieces in this artist's enduring catalog. ~ Jose F. Promis