Robert Brookins - Let It Be Me
Rip Info
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Artist: Robert Brookins
Album Title: Let It Be Me
Record Label: MCA Records
Rip Date: 2007-11-29
Catalog Number:
Genre: R&B
Year: 1988
Source: CD
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 197 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Track List
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01 Where Is The Love (Featuring Stephanie Mills) 5:09
02 Let It Be Me 5:11
03 Crazy Bout Your Lovin 5:34
04 Hold On 4:47
05 At Last 5:03
06 Don't Tease Me 4:50
07 Self Control 4:31
08 United 5:26
09 Real Talk 4:48
10 Code Blue 5:21
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75.61 megs
Rip Notes
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The often overused term multi-talented is true to its definition when referring
to Robert F. Brookins. The singer/songwriter/musician/ arranger and producer ?
born 1965 in Sacramento, CA ? was singing at four, drumming at five, playing
keyboards at nine, and wowing locals with his band Little Robert & the Fondeles
at 11. They were tight enough to best a field-of-plenty to win Motown's 1974
Soul Search Contest.
After school and seven years later, Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White inked
Robert and his brother Michael Brookins to his CBS-distributed ARC Records.
Calling themselves Afterbach, they cut Matinee (1981) which received good
reviews, lots of print promotion, but few sales. A single, "It's You," which
also shared a 12" with the Emotions' "Turn It Out," nearly broke out.
He enhanced his resume with guitar, bass, and horns' skills and became a
sought-after songwriter and session musician. The list of artists who recorded
his songs, often co-written with Tony Ray Haynes, is star-studded and includes
the Reddings, Bobby Brown, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams, George Howard,
Nancy Wilson, Stanley Clarke, Roy Ayers, George Duke, Waymon Tisdale, Keisha
Jackson, Everette Harp, the Newtrons, Mystery Man's Band, Angela Bofil, Kirk
Whalum, Joe McBride, Sue Ann, Michael Cooper, the Isley Brothers, the Whispers,
and Walter & Scotty.
A singing stint on George Duke's self-titled 1986 album led to a solo deal with
MCA Records. Brookens cranked out two LPs: In the Night (1987) and Let It Be Me
(1988); a duet with Stephanie Mills graced both LPs. He was major on Jackie
Jackson's Be the One LP (1989), writing many of its songs. Reuniting with the
EWF empire, he became the legendary band's musical director and keyboard player.
And Brookins still found time to work on Benet, Bobby Brown, Analysis, Bruce
Hornsby, the Company, and Philip Bailey's CDs.