Love Language

Love Language is the eighth album by R&B/soul singer Teddy Pendergrass, released on May 29, 1984. It was his first record for Asylum Records after being a longtime artist on Philadelphia International Records. It did much better on the Billboard 200 than his last two records, peaking at number 38. He had not reached the top 40 on the album charts since 1981's It's Time for Love. The album was composed and produced by Michael Masser, with the exception of the track You're My Choice Tonight, which was produced by Luther Vandross and featured Cissy Houston on background vocals and as "Solo Female Voice". Hold Me written by Masser and Linda Creed was a duet with Whitney Houston. As a result of having recorded this duet in 1984, Houston was disqualified from consideration as Grammy Best New Artist of 1985. Despite this, it helped the album earn a gold award from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in September 1984, Pendergrass' first gold album since It's Time for Love was certified in December 1981. The track "In My Time" reached number 11 on the South African charts, spending seven weeks in the top 20. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_La...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)