Be Yourself (Patti LaBelle album)

Be Yourself
Studio album by Patti LaBelle
Released	June 26, 1989
Recorded	1986–1989
Studio	Westlake Audio and Elumba Studios (Los Angeles, California); Conway Studios, Sunset Sound, Ocean Way Recording and Trax Recording Studio (Hollywood, California); Alchemy Recording Studios (Woodland Hills, California); Tarpan Studios (San Rafael, California); Chartmaker Studios (Malibu, California); Can-Am Recorders (Tarzana, California); Kajeem/Victory Studios, RPM Studios and Sigma Sound Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Soundworks (New York City, New York); Paisley Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
Genre	R&B soul pop new jack swing
Length	53:38
Label	MCA
Producer	Burt Bacharach James R. "Budd" Ellison Full Force Raymond Jones Stewart Levine Sami McKinney Prince Allan Dennis Rich Carole Bayer Sager Alan Roy Scott Narada Michael Walden
Patti LaBelle chronology
Winner in You (1986) Be Yourself (1989) This Christmas (1990)
Singles from Be Yourself
"If You Asked Me To" Released: June 12, 1989 "Yo Mister" Released: July 1989 "I Can't Complain" Released: 1990

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Spin	(favorable)[4]

Be Yourself is the ninth solo album by American singer-songwriter Patti LaBelle. It was released by MCA Records on June 26, 1989 in the United States. Her second album with the company following her 1986 platinum album Winner in You, it features the single, "If You Asked Me To" which was also featured on the soundtrack to the James Bond movie, Licence to Kill (1989), and the R&B top ten Prince-written hit "Yo Mister." The album marked LaBelle's foray into new jack swing music with the tracks "I Got It Like That", produced by Full Force, and "Love 89", another Prince contribution.