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Always is the second studio album by American recording artist Pebbles. It was released on September 11, 1990, by MCA Records and spawned two Top 20 hits on the U.S. Hot 100, which also hit #1 on the R&B chart: "Giving You the Benefit" (US #4 pop, #1 R&B) and "Love Makes Things Happen" (a duet with Babyface, US #13 pop, #1 R&B), as well as the top-five R&B hit "Backyard" (featuring Salt-N-Pepa), and the top 20 R&B hit "Always".




Track listing






Production


L.A. & Babyface – executive producers, producers (1–8)
Pebbles – executive producer, co-producer (8)
Daryl Simmons & Kayo – producers (9, 10)
Jon Gass – recording (1–9), mix engineer, mixing
Jimmy Dutt – recording (4, 10)
L.A. Reid – mixing
Ron Christopher, Ryan Dorn, Jimmy Dutt, Thom "TK" Kidd and Barney Perkins – additional engineers
Michael Alvord, Steve Battle, Mike Baumgartner, Kyle Bess, Rich Caughron, Jim Champagne, Milton Chan, Ross Donaldson, Fred Law, Ted Malia, Joe Shay, Donnell Sullivan, Michael White, Bill Zalin and Jim "Z" Zumpano – assistant engineers
Donnell Sullivan – mix assistant
Eddy Schreyer – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California)
Donald Parks – production manager
Zetra Smith – production manager (4, 9)
Jeff Adamoff – art direction
September – art direction
Randee St. Nicholas – photography
Gallin Morey Associates – management




Personnel


Pebbles – lead vocals, backing vocals, vocal arrangements
Babyface – keyboards (1–8), keyboard programming (1–8), rhythm arrangements (1–8), vocal arrangements (1–9), backing vocals (2, 3, 4, 8), lead vocals (3), Moog bass (4), Fender 5-string bass (5, 7), guitars (8), guitar solo (9)
Donald Parks – Fairlight CMI (1–4, 8, 10), Synclavier programming (1, 3, 8, 10), Synclavier (5, 6, 7, 9)
Danny Sembello – keyboards (8)
Daryl Simmons – backing vocals (4, 9, 10), keyboards (9, 10), keyboard programming (9, 10), guitars (9), rhythm arrangements (9, 10), vocal arrangements (9, 10)
Kayo – Moog bass (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10), Fender 5-string bass (3), percussion (5, 7), backing vocals (9, 10), vocal arrangements (9, 10), keyboards (10, keyboard programming (10), drums (10)
L.A. Reid – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1, 9), rhythm arrangements (1–8), vocal arrangements (1–4, 6, 8)
After 7 – backing vocals (1, 2, 6, 10)
Natisse "Bambi" Jones – backing vocals (1, 6, 8)
Salt 'N' Pepa – raps (2)
Johnny Gill – backing vocals (4, 8)
Karyn White – backing vocals (4)
Cherrelle – backing vocals (8)




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References

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• L.A. Reid
• Always (Pebbles album)
• Always
• Pebbles (Pebbles album)
• Pebbles (musician)
• Backyard (Pebbles song)
• Pebbles discography
• Sputnik (artist)
• Cherrelle
• Straight from My Heart
• Essential Pebbles, Volume 2