Fragile (Cherrelle album)

Fragile
Studio album by Cherrelle
Released	April 8, 1984
Recorded	1983–1984
Studio	Creation Audio (Minneapolis) Larrabee Sound Studios & Studio Masters (Los Angeles) Eight Mile-John Lodge Studios & Fiddler Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	R&B soul dance-pop synth-pop funk
Length	43:22
Label	Tabu CBS
Producer	Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis Michael Everitt Dunlap Isaac Suthers
Cherrelle chronology
Fragile (1984) High Priority (1985)
Singles from Fragile
"I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" Released: April 1984 "Fragile… Handle With Care" Released: 1984

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Fragile is the debut studio album by American singer Cherrelle. It was released on April 8, 1984 by Tabu Records and was the first of four records for the label (she would leave Tabu after the release of 1991's "The Woman I Am").

The album was mostly written, arranged and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (a/k/a Flyte Time Productions), and, under their guidance, she scored a smash R&B hit with "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On". The song reached number eight on the US R&B chart and number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Release history

Label	Cat. No.		Format	Date
Tabu	PZ 39144	US	Vinyl, Cassette	1984
Tabu	TBU 26064	UK	Vinyl	1984
Tabu	ZK 39144	US	CD	1986
Tabu	25DP 5368	JP	CD	1989
Tabu, The Right Stuff	72435-41819-2-4	EU US	CD	2002
Solid	CDSOL-5207	JP	CD	2013
Tabu	TABU1003	UK	CD	2013

Track listing

Fragile track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Fragile...Handle With Care"	James Harris III Terry Lewis	Jimmy Jam Lewis	6:02
2.	"I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"	Harris Lewis	Jam Lewis	7:03
3.	"Like I Will"	Harris Lewis	Jam Lewis	7:24
4.	"I Will Wait For You"	Maxi Anderson Isaac Suthers Michael Dunlap	Suthers Dunlap	3:40
5.	"Who's It Gonna Be"	Harris Lewis	Jam Lewis	4:38
6.	"Stay With Me"	Bill Champlin Suthers Dunlap	Suthers Dunlap	4:00
7.	"When You Look In My Eyes"	Harris Lewis	Jam Lewis	4:48
8.	"I Need You Now"	Champlin Suthers Dunlap	Suthers Dunlap	4:35

Personnel and production

Tracks 1–3, 5 & 7

• Arranged & Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis For Flyte Tyme Productions
• Engineered & Mixed by Steve Wiese & Taavi Mote
• Additional Recording Engineers: Judy Clapp & Steve Hodge
• Jimmy Jam - synthesizers, synth programming, acoustic piano, drum programming, percussion, backing vocals
• Terry Lewis - keyboards, synthesizers, electric bass, drum programming, backing vocals
• Monte Moir - synthesizers, percussion, backing vocals
• David Eiland - tuba, saxophone
• Randy Jenkins, Lucia Newell, Gwendolyn Traylor - backing vocals

Tracks 4, 6 & 8

• Arranged & Produced by Michael Everitt Dunlap & Isaac Suthers, with additional vocal arrangements by Maxi Anderson
• Engineered by Robert Biles
• Assistant Engineers: Michael Gilbert, Dennis Woods & Kelvin Dixon
• Mixed by Mike Evans & Taavi Mote
• Michael Everitt Dunlap - electric, acoustic and bass guitars, acoustic piano, drums, backing vocals
• Isaac Suthers - synthesizers
• Eric Sylvester Daniels - synthesizers, Fender Rhodes
• Ellis Smith - electric and acoustic guitars
• Terry Santiel - percussion
• Maxi Anderson, Bill Champlin, Tamara Champlin, Phyllis St. James, Randall Jenkins, Gwenche Macho - backing vocals