Black & White (Pointer Sisters album)

Black & White
Studio album by Pointer Sisters
Released	June 1981
Recorded	Studio 55 (Los Angeles, California) Celebration Recording (New York City, New York)
Genre	R&B, pop, soul
Label	Planet
Producer	Richard Perry
Pointer Sisters chronology
Special Things (1980) Black & White (1981) So Excited! (1982)

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Black & White is the eighth studio album by the Pointer Sisters, released in 1981 on the Planet label.

History

Black & White was their fourth record with producer Richard Perry and yielded the #2 pop hit "Slow Hand". The fourth single release, "Should I Do It", reached #13 in the spring of 1982, making Black & White the first Pointer Sisters album to yield two Top Twenty hits. Black & White was certified Gold in September 1981. The album was remastered and issued on CD with bonus tracks in 2009 by Wounded Bird Records.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweet Lover Man"	Jerry Ragovoy, Len Roberts	4:12
2.	"Someday We'll Be Together"	Russ Ballard	4:39
3.	"Take My Heart, Take My Soul"	Ken Gold, Mickey Denne	4:06
4.	"Slow Hand"	Michael Clark, John Bettis	3:54
5.	"We're Gonna Make It"	David Foster, Mike Cotton, Anita Pointer, June Pointer	3:56

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"What a Surprise"	A. Pointer, J. Pointer, Trevor Lawrence	4:11
7.	"Got to Find Love"	David Lasley, Willie Wilcox	4:04
8.	"Fall in Love Again"	Patrick Henderson, Wornell Jones	4:30
9.	"Should I Do It"	Layng Martine, Jr.	3:53

2009 remastered bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
10.	"Holdin' Out for Love"	Cynthia Weil, Tom Snow	3:22
11.	"What a Surprise" (Original Edit)		4:11

Personnel

• Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, June Pointer – vocals
• Paul Jackson, Tim May – guitar
• Mike Porcaro, Nate Watts – bass
• Trevor Lawrence – tenor saxophone
• John Barnes – piano, electric piano, keyboards
• Greg Phillinganes – electric piano
• Danny Faragher, William Smith – organ
• Ed Walsh – synthesizer
• Mike Cotten – synthesizer, programming
• James Newton Howard – keyboards, synthesizer
• John Robinson – drums
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion

Production

• Richard Perry – producer
• Trevor Lawrence – associate producer
• Gabe Veltri – recording engineer
• Bill Schnee – remix engineer

Chart positions

Chart (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	13
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	9

External links

• Black & White at Discogs