Donny Osmond is a 1989 album released by Donny Osmond

Donny Osmond

Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid 1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmond Brothers on the long...

. It was released on Capitol Records. It is notable for featuring the number 2 smash hit, "Soldier of Love", which Randall Popken, Alice Newsome and Lanell Gonzales called "a faintly suggestive tune set to a post-disco

Post-disco

Post-disco refers to a historically significant period in popular music history beginning with the commercial death of disco music in the late 1970s and ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in late 1980s.The stripped-down musical trends followed from the DJ- and producer-driven,...

 beat." It was released as a tune by a "mystery singer", as Osmond's promoter feared that no one would buy the album if the singer was revealed. It's also notable for featuring five songs that Osmond co-wrote, and for Osmond also handling drum programming and keyboards on a few tracks.
It also featured three more singles, "Sacred Emotion" (which was a radio single), "I'm In It For Love" and "If It's Love That You Want", the last of which is featured as a bonus track on some copies of the compact disc.

Track listing

1. "Soldier of Love" (Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers) 3:51
2. "If It's Love That You Want" (Sturken, Rogers) 4:26
3. "Sacred Emotion
   Sacred Emotion
   Sacred Emotion is a pop ballad performed by Donny Osmond. The song was the second single released from the February 1989 album Donny Osmond. It reached #4 in Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #13 in The Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1989....
   
   " (Sturken, Rogers) 5:11
4. "Inner Rhythm "(Matthew Wilder
   Matthew Wilder
   Matthew Wilder is an American musician, composer and record producer, best known for his 1983 Top 5 hit, "Break My Stride"....
   
   , Robinson) 3:24
5. "Faces in the Mirror" (Sturken, Rogers, Osmond) 5:20
6. "My Secret Touch" (Acogny, Holden, Legassick, Osmond) 4:12
7. "I'll Be Good to You" (Stephen Kipner
   Steve Kipner
   Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", Chicago's Grammy-nominated "Hard Habit to Break", "Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an...
   
   , Mark Spiro) 6:03
8. "Groove" (Acogny, Osmond) 4:56
9. "Only Heaven Knows" (Acogny, Osmond) 4:36
10. "Hold On" (Osmond, Rogers, Sturken) 4:01
11. "I'm in It for Love" -bonus track (Andy Goldmark, P. Henderson) 4:50

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11

• Produced by Carl Sturken & Evan Rogers
• Tracks 1, 2 mixed by Acar S. Key
• Tracks 3, 5, 7, 10 & 11 mixed by Darroll Gustamacho

Tracks 4, 8, 9

• Produced By George Acogny
• Tracks 4 & 9 mixed by Rod Beale
• Track 8 mixed by Michael Bauer

Engineers

• Darroll Gustamacho, Acar Key, Dave Botrill, Rod Beale, Matt Noble, Mike Harlow, Quinn Baston, Matt Hathaway, Steve Heinke
• Album Mastered By Tony Cousins

Personnel

• Drums, Percussion: Manu Katche
  Manu Katché
  Manu Katché is a French musician of Ivorian origin, born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on 27 October 1958. He is a drummer and songwriter.-Career:Session musician...
  
  , Jean-Paul Ceccarelli, Carole Steele
• Drum Programming: Donny Osmond
• Linn Drum: Manny Elias
  Manny Elias
  Manny Elias is an English drummer, notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.Originally a member of the rock band Interview from Bath, Somerset. Elias began working with Tears For Fears in 1982 and drummed on the albums The Hurting and Songs From The Big Chair,...
  
  
• Bass: John "Noodle" Nevin, Darryl Jones
• Guitars: Carl Sturken, Ira Siegel, Alan Murphy, Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson (guitarist)
  Michael Thompson is an American guitarist and songwriter.Thompson achieved enduring modest success with his 1989 melodic rock/AOR group Michael Thompson Band but is most noted for his work as a popular session guitarist on the recordings of some of the most popular musical artists of the 1980s,...
  
  , J.J. Bell
• Keyboards: Carl Sturken, Donny Osmond, Peter Vitesse, Rory Kaplan, Michael Brecker, Erwin De Marc Hadour
• Saxophone: Michael Brecker
  Michael Brecker
  Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
  
  
• Backing Vocals: Cinzy Mizelle, Donny Osmond, Evan Rogers, Audrey Wheeler, Carol Kenyon, Barbara Drennan, Julian Littman, Dolette McDonald, Carol Rowley, Linda Taylor, Dave Bottrill

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	54

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1989	"Sacred Emotion Sacred Emotion Sacred Emotion is a pop ballad performed by Donny Osmond. The song was the second single released from the February 1989 album Donny Osmond. It reached #4 in Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #13 in The Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1989.... "	Adult Contemporary	4
1989	"Sacred Emotion"	The Billboard Hot 100	13
1989	"Hold On"	Dance Music/Club Play Singles	36
1989	"Hold On"	The Billboard Hot 100	73
1989	"Soldier of Love"	The Billboard Hot 100	2