Love for What It Is

Love for What It Is is the only studio album by Anita Pointer, released in 1987 on the RCA label.[3]

Love for What It Is
Studio album by
Anita Pointer
Released1987
Studio
GenreR&B[2]
Length42:54[2]
LabelRCA
ProducerPreston Glass
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

History

The album was released on RCA Records in 1987, by the time Pointer was still in the Pointer Sisters. The album spawned a single, "Overnight Success",[4] which peaked at No. 41 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart.[5][6] It peaked at No. 12 on Jet's Top 20 singles.[7][8] It appeared at No. 97 on the Top Black Singles chart in 1987.[9] Another single, "More Than A Memory", released in 1988, peaked at No. 73 on the same chart.[6][5] The Chicago Tribune noted, "the album reaffirms its basic theme, whether it's the music, graceful, melodic, gospel-tinged soul without the brittle pop edge of more recent Pointer Sisters' outings".[10]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Overnight Success"Mike & Brenda Sutton4:45
2."Love Me Like You Do"LeMel Humes, Mary Lee Kortes5:25
3."The Pledge (with Philip Bailey)"Jennifer Kimball, Tom Snow3:16
4."You Don't Scare Me"Don Cook, Steve Diamond3:40
5."More Than a Memory"Alan Glass, Preston Glass, Ron Broomfield4:45
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Have a Little Faith in Love"Alan Roy Scott, Michael Jay, S. Diamond5:56
7."Love for What It Is"Lorraine Bregante5:05
8."Beware of What You Want"Brenda Russell, P. Glass5:42
9."Temporarily Blue"Bob Moulds, David Wills4:20

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.[11]

  • Backing Vocals – Jada Pointer (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 6, 8), Linda "Peaches" Green (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 6, 8)
  • Design – Pietro Alfieri
  • Engineer – Devon Galbraith, Jim Watts "Happenin'" Vereecke, Stuart "Quick Shoes" Hirotsu
  • Guitar – Steve Diamond (tracks: 2, 5)
  • Photography By – Leon Lecash
  • Producer, Drums, Keyboards, Guitar, *Drum Programming – Preston Glass
  • Recorded By, Mixed By – Maureen "Mo Better" Droney
  • Saxophone – Marc Russo (tracks: 7)
  • Steel Guitar – Ned "Yo' Bad" Selfe* (tracks: 9)

References
  1. Giacona, Katiana (June 26, 2023). Record Plant, Sausalito Studios. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-0946-8. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  2. "Anita Pointer – Love for What It Is". AllMusic. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  3. Pointer, Ruth (2016). Still So Excited!: My Life as a Pointer Sister. Triumph Books.
  4. Anita Pointer – Overnight Success on YouTube
  5. "Anita Pointer Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  6. "Anita Pointer Top Songs". Musicvf.com. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  7. Company, Johnson Publishing (1987). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  8. Company, Johnson Publishing (1987). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  9. Billboard. 1987 – via Google Books.
  10. "Love For What It Is (Anita Pointer)". Chicago Tribune. January 31, 1988. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  11. Anita Pointer – Love for What It Is (liner notes): 1987.
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