Gems (Patti LaBelle album)

Gems
Studio album by Patti LaBelle
Released	June 7, 1994
Genre	R&B
Length	57:30
Label	MCA
Producer	Lisa Dalbello James "Budd" Ellison Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis Sami McKinney K.C. Porter Teddy Riley Bunny Sigler Nathaniel "Crockett" Wilkie James Wright
Patti LaBelle chronology
Live! (1992) Gems (1994) Greatest Hits (1996)

Gems is the twelfth studio album by American singer Patti LaBelle. It was released by MCA Records on June 7, 1994, in the United States. The album features a hip-hop-esque remake of DeBarge's 1983 hit, "All This Love", produced by Teddy Riley. Gems peaked at number forty-eight on the US Billboard 200 and went gold with sales shipping past the 500,000 mark. The album is notable for the single "The Right Kinda Lover", which brought LaBelle a new legion of fans thanks to its production by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and its video which had LaBelle performing a seductress who chooses "the right mate" through a machine and if one man rubbed her the wrong way, she'd use a button to get rid of them.