Album: Be Yourself

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Be Yourself

Album details
Released:	26 June, 1989
Length:	53:48
Label(s):	MCA Records
Studio(s):	Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA; Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA

Be Yourself album is the second MCA Records studio album by soul singer Patti LaBelle (formerly part of the band Labelle, along with Nona Hendryx). The album contains two songs with writing input by Prince, Yo Mister, and Love 89 (co-written with Sheena Easton). Both tracks were recorded by Prince, with Patti LaBelle simply replacing Prince's vocals with her own.

The album produced three singles, If You Asked Me To, Yo Mister (which contained various remixes of the track), and I Can't Complain. The album reached number 86 on the US Billboard Pop Chart, and number 14 on the Billboard Black Chart.

Prince later contributed the song I Hear Your Voice to Patti LaBelle's next album, Burnin' in 1991.

Track listing

Details given for Prince-related tracks only:

LP/MC

• Side 1:

1. If You Asked Me To
2. I Can't Complain
3. Be Yourself
4. Yo Mister (5:08) *
5. I Got It Like That

• Side 2:

1. Love 89 (5:09) +
2. Still In Love
3. I'm Scared Of You
4. Can't Bring Me Down
5. Need A Little Faith
6. I Can Fly

* Written by Prince
+ Written by Prince and Sheena Easton.

CD

1. If You Asked Me To
2. I Can't Complain
3. Be Yourself
4. Yo Mister (5:08) *
5. I Got It Like That
6. Love 89 (5:09) +
7. Still In Love
8. I'm Scared Of You
9. Can't Bring Me Down
10. Need A Little Faith
11. I Can Fly

Personnel

Musicians

• Patti LaBelle - vocals
• Prince - all instruments and background vocals

Production

• Prince - producer
• Susan Rogers - recording engineer on Yo Mister
• Coke Johnson - assistant engineer on Yo Mister
• Timmy Regisford - remix on Yo Mister (Soundworks, New York, NY, USA)
• Alan Gregorie - remix engineer on Yo Mister (Soundworks, New York, NY, USA)
• Eddie Miller - recording engineer on Love 89

Singles released

• If You Asked Me To
• Yo Mister
• I Can't Complain

Charts

Entry Date	Chart, Country	Peak Position	Weeks In Chart
22 Jul. 1989	Billboard 200 (USA)	86	26
22 Jul. 1989	Billboard Black Albums Chart (USA)	14	39

Releases

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Variants, Special Editions and Reissues
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Album promotion

• A promotional stamp was published in Billboard of 26 August 1989 (Vol. 101 No. 34).
• A full page press advert was published in Billboard of 9 September 1989 (Vol. 101 No. 36):
  

Awards, nominations, and certifications

• Information needed.

Quotations and trivia

• The song Still In Love included on this album is a cover version of the track by Sheena Easton and included on her 1987 album No Sound But A Heart, which also includes musical input by Prince.

References

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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