For Heartbreaker, The O'Jays made concessions to changing tastes, adopting drum samples and synthesized backing, and including some new jack swing material. But they wisely didn't tampered with their strength, lush three-part harmonies anchored by the earnest lead vocals of Eddie Levert. This release contains several intense, urgent ballads, many of them written by group members. Outside of Carlton Hunt's raps on "Trouble" and "Can't Let You Go," many numbers aren't much different from the classic material that made them superstars in the '70s; that's both part of the music's charm and something that might trouble fans hoping the group would experiment with the vocal arrangements as well as the production. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
Heartbreaker
01/01/1993
All Music Guide Review
Heartbreaker Track Listing
Credits of Heartbreaker
- Dwain Mitchell
- Synthesizer, Bass, Percussion, Drums, Piano (Electric), Piano
- Edwin Nicholas
- Arranger, Composer, Drums, Keyboard Programming, Sequencing, Producer, Programming, Keyboards
- Willie Ross
- Guitar, Drums
- Ron A. Schafer
- Engineer, Mixing
- Russell Thomson
- Saxophone, ?
- Dennis Paul Williams
- Arranger, Vocals
- Walter Williams
- Composer, Conga, Cheng
- Sherena Wynn
- Composer, Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
- Ricky Hicks
- Percussion
- Dennis Williams
- Vocals, Horn Arrangements, Vocal Arrangement
- Henry Marquez
- Art Direction
- Tony Dawsey
- Mastering
- Jeffrey Scales
- Photography
- Carla Leighton
- Design
- The O'Jays
- Vocals (Background), Main Performer
- Ed Baks
- Vocals
- Randy Bowland
- Guitar
- Kevin Byous
- Guitar
- Rick Hicks
- Percussion
- Carlton Hunt
- Rap
- Eddie LeVert
- Vocals
- Joe Little
- Vocals
- Michael Jackson
- Keyboards
- Gerald LeVert
- Arranger, Composer, Vocals, Producer, Vocal Arrangement














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