Girl You Know It's True

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For the song of the same title, see Girl You Know It's True (song).
Girl You Know It's True
File:Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It's True CD cover.JPG
Studio album by Milli Vanilli
Released 7 March 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre Dance-pop, hip hop, new jack swing
Length 41:01
Label Arista
ARCD-8592
Producer Frank Farian
Milli Vanilli chronology
All or Nothing
(1988)All or Nothing1988		 Girl You Know It's True
(1989)		 All or Nothing: The U.S.-Remix Album
(1989)All or Nothing: The U.S.-Remix Album1989
Singles from Girl You Know It's True
  1. "Girl You Know It's True"
    Released: 25 June 1988
  2. "Baby Don't Forget My Number"
    Released: 10 December 1988
  3. "Blame It on the Rain"
    Released: 13 July 1989
  4. "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You"
    Released: July 1989
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars[1]
Los Angeles Times 2.5/5 stars[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2/5 stars[3]

Girl You Know It's True is a 1989 album that was the U.S. debut of pop group Milli Vanilli.

In 1989, several songs from Milli Vanilli's Europe-only release All or Nothing were repackaged and retitled Girl You Know It's True. The album was a major success in America, producing five top-five hits, of which three hit the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. On January 1990, Girl You Know It's True was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA after spending eight weeks atop the Billboard Top 200. The album was also certified Diamond in Canada, denoting shipments of over a million units there. The success of the album earned the duo a Grammy Award for best new artist. Following the scandal that revealed that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan did not sing on their album exposed by Los Angeles Times journalist Chuck Philips,[4] Arista Records dropped the act from its roster and deleted their album and its masters from their catalog, making it one of the largest-selling albums to ever be taken out of print. In addition, their Grammy was revoked,[5] marking the first time a Grammy was ever rescinded from an artist.

In addition to including many of the tracks that originally appeared on All or Nothing in Europe, Girl You Know It's True featured several new tracks that did not make it onto the European album, including the hit single "Blame it on the Rain." In Europe, this tune instead appeared (albeit in an extended version) on the album All or Nothing - The U.S. Remix Album.[6]

Errors

The track order on the U.S. release is out of sequence with the listing printed on its cover art, and several tracks are listed with the wrong time. A few of the writers' credits are inconsistent with what is listed in external sources. The decision to replace some of the tracks for the U.S. release was made by Arista Records president Clive Davis.

Track listing

Girl You Know It's True
No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "Girl You Know It's True"   Ky Adeyemo, Rodney Halloway, Kevin Liles, Bill Pettaway Jr., Sean Spencer 4:13
2. "Baby Don't Forget My Number"   Farian, B. Nail aka Brad Howell 3:59
3. "More Than You'll Ever Know"   Ernesto Phillips 4:32
4. "Blame It on the Rain"   Diane Warren 4:19
5. "Take It as It Comes"   Climie, Fisher, Dennis Morgan 3:41
6. "It's Your Thing"   O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley 3:51
7. "Dreams to Remember"   Farian, Mary Applegatmar Kawohl 3:54
8. "All or Nothing"   Farian, Nail, P.G. Wilder 3:17
9. "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You"   Farian, Kawohl, Peter Bischoff Fallenstein 3:57
10. "Girl You Know It's True" (N.Y. Subway Extended Mix)"   Ky Adeyemo, Rodney Halloway, Kevin Liles, Bill Pettaway Jr., Sean Spencer 6:27
Total length:
 40:10

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (1989-1990) Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[7] 1
US Billboard 200[8] 1

Personnel

  • Rob Pilatus, Fab Morvan (aka "The Brothers of Soul"): Visual performance
  • Jodie and Linda Rocco, Joan Faulkner, Felicia Taylor, The Jackson Singers, John Davis, Charles Shaw, Herbert Gebhard, Bimey Oberreit, Peter Rishavy, Brad Howell: Vocals
  • P.G. Wilder, Pit Loew, Volker Barber: Keyboards
  • Frank Farian: Roland Jupiter 8 and synthesizer programming
  • Peter Weihe, Jens Gad, Bruce Ingram: Guitars
  • Mel Collins: Saxophone
  • Curt Cress: Drums, Percussion
  • Dino Solera, Felice Civitareale, Franz Weyerer: Horns; arranged by Dino Solera

Production

  • All music arranged by P.G. Wilder and Pit Loew
  • Produced by Frank Farian for Far Music Productions
  • Recorded and mixed by Tobias Freund, Bernd Berwanger, Norbert Janicke and Jens Seekamp at Far Studios

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Los Angeles Times review
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  6. ↑ Milli Vanilli- All Or Nothing _ The U.S. Remix Album (released in Germany) @Discogs.com Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Milli Vanilli – Chart history" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Milli Vanilli. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Milli Vanilli – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Milli Vanilli. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
23 September – 6 October 1989
25 November – 15 December 1989
23–29 December 1989
13–19 January 1990		 Succeeded by
Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul
Storm Front by Billy Joel
...But Seriously by Phil Collins
...But Seriously by Phil Collins

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