Get Up on It

by Keith Sweat

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	06/28/1994
Label:	Elektra
UPC:	0075596155021

Tracks

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)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Keith Sweat   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background),Keyboards
Roger   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Keyboards
Kut Klose   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes   Guest Artist,Rap
Joseph B. Jefferson   Vocals (Background)
Eric McCaine   Multi Instruments
Gary Jenkins   Vocals (Background)
Fitzgerald Scott   Keyboards,Multi Instruments,Vocals (Background)
Billy Ward   Multi Instruments
Jerry Flowers   Multi Instruments
Athena Cage   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Michael French   Engineer,Mixing,Engineer
Kut Klose   Performer
Joseph B. Jefferson   Producer
Eric McCaine   Producer,Composer
Karl Heilbron   Mixing
Dennis Mitchell   Hair Stylist
Fitzgerald Scott   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Remixing
Alli   Design,Art Direction
Joe Jefferson   Composer
William "Billy Bad" Ward   Composer
Agnes Baddoo   Stylist
Curtis Jefferson   Composer
Ron Shaffer   Mixing
Roger   Performer
Jerry Flowers   Composer
Gerhard Yurkovic   Photography
Keith Sweat   Executive Producer,Remixing,Producer,Composer,Engineer