Freddie Jackson [2023] - My First Love [Climax Entertainment] (Full Album)

Harlem, NYC, born Freddie Jackson began his career as the lead singer with Mystic Merlin in the early 80s, who recorded three albums for Capitol, before being signed by the label as a solo artist in 1984. He hit the ground running with his very first solo single, the title track of his debut album "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)" hitting the top spot on the R&B chart in 1985.

He was Grammy nominated that year for Best New Artist, and again the following year for the follow up single "You Are My Lady". Jackson went on to achieve a slew of hit singles included no fewer than ten R&B #1 singles between 1985-91. His success on the R&B chart didn't crossover to the Hot 100 with only eight of his R&B #1 hits (and no others) reaching the Hot 100 with only the first two breaking the Top 20.

He has released his first new album since 2018 today. The album is titled "My First Love" and, as we would probably expect from Mr Jackson, it consists of predominantly ballads with two or three more uptempo tracks. 

Our picks are two of the non-ballads, "My First Love" and the funky stepper "I Don't Want You".

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Details

Rating:	7.9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	New Soul
Format:	Album
Media:	Digital
Label:	Climax Entertainment
Cat No:	None
Date:	12/05/2023
Price:	£7.99

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Meli'sa Morgan Feat. Freddie Jackson [2005] - Back Together Again [Orpheus #80246 90949 2 3]

A UK soul weekender anthem in the 80s by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway from 1979, this is Meli'sa Morgan & Freddie Jackson's version from 2005 from her 'I Remember' album.

It is claimed that Morgan started her career with B.B.P. (Business Before Pleasure) in 1978 who released just one single '(I'm In) The Prime Of Love' on Stang. If this is the case (and it does sound like her) then she would have only been 14 at the time.  The track was reissued by Outta Site in UK in 2014 with the title stating Featuring Meli'sa Morgan. Ila Vann was also connected with the group but I don't know if they were both in the group at the same time. 

Her next group was Shades Of Love, a New York female group which included Lisa Fischer (backing singer for Luther Vandross). They released a handful of singles and had a dance hit (#52 R&B) with 'Body To Body (Keep in Touch)' in 1982.

She then joined trio High Fashion which included Eric McClinton (Eric & The Vikings) and Alyson Williams.  They released 2 albums and about half a dozen singles with little succes except for one R&B entry at #32 with 'Feeling Lucky Lately'.

Morgan left High Fashion in 1983 and released her debut single in 1985 and had a #1 US R&B hit with 'Do Me Baby' which was a cover of a 1982 Prince single which didn't chart. She continued to have 14 R&B entries (5 of them top 10) but only 'Do Me Baby' crossed over to Hot 100 (#46).  

In the UK she had 3 entries in the pop chart with 'If You Can Do It, I Can Too' (1986 #41), 'Fool's Paradise' (1987 #86) and the title track of her 1988 album 'Good Love' 1988 #59) 

My favourite tracks from her are 'Fool's Paradise' (although very Chaka Khanish and similar to the Rufus song, it's not the same song as that was written by Gavin Christopher) and her duet with Kashif 'Love Changes', written by Skip Scarborough and originally recorded by Mother's Finest in 1978 with Joyce Kennedy on lead vocals.

A couple of other tracks of interest on the album are 'I'm Your Sistah' and 'Do You, Do You Want It?'.