Set My Love in Motion

Set My Love In Motion
Studio album by Syreeta Wright
Released	October 21, 1981
Recorded	1980–1981
Length	42:40
Label	Tamla
Producer	Hal Davis, Ollie Brown, Angelo Bond, William Weatherspoon
Syreeta Wright chronology
Syreeta (1980) Set My Love In Motion (1981) Billy Preston & Syreeta (1981)

Set My Love In Motion is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Syreeta Wright, released in July 1981 by Motown.

The album yielded three singles: "You Set My Love in Motion", "Can't Shake Your Love" and "Quick Slick".^[1] Set My Love In Motion did not score any commercial success, reaching the lower half of the Billboard 200 album chart, where it ranked at #189, but fared much better on the Black Albums chart, where it reached the top forty on that chart.

Track listing[]

1. "Quick Slick" (Norma Helms, Hal Davis, Mitchell Bottler) - 5:24
2. "Move It, Do It" (Angelo Bond, Todd Cochrane, William Weatherspoon) - 3:54
3. "You Set My Love in Motion" (Maureen Bailey, David Richard Cohen) - 3:29
4. "There's Nothing Like a Woman in Love" (Brian Short, Gloria Sklerov) - 4:22
5. "Can't Shake Your Love" (Norma Helms, Hal Davis, Mitchell Bottler) - 4:12
6. "I Must Be in Love" (Kenneth Hirsch, Mark Mueller) - 3:52
7. "Wish Upon a Star" (Syreeta Wright) - 3:45
8. "Out the Box" (Ollie E. Brown, Paul M. Jackson, Jr., Syreeta Wright) - 5:44
9. "I Know The Way To Your Heart" (Joe Blocker, Marlo Henderson) - 4:07
10. "I Love You" (Paul Hines, James S. Stewart, Jr., Syreeta Wright) - 4:21

Personnel[]

• Syreeta – vocals
• Barry Finnerty, Carlos Rios, David T. Walker, Robert Palmer – guitar
• Paul Jackson Jr. – synthesizer, guitar
• Todd Cochran – keyboards, synthesizer
• Nathan Watts, Romeo Williams – bass guitar
• Clarence McDonald, John Barnes, Sylvester Rivers – keyboards
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
• Marlo Henderson – guitar, sitar
• Wayne Stalling, William Bryant Jr. – clavinet, piano, synthesizer
• Eddie "Klunis" Summers, James Gadson, Kenneth Elliott, Ollie E. Brown – drums
• Melvin "Melmel" Webb, Ollie E. Brown, Paulinho da Costa – percussion
• Gary Herbig, Gerald Albright – saxophone
• Andrea Robinson, Jeanette Hawes, Jim Gilstrap, Lynn Davis, Marti McCall, Patti Brooks, Suzanne Coston – backing vocals
• Jerry Hey – horn arrangements
• Gene Page – string arrangements

Chart performance[]

References[]

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