Giving You The Best That I Got is the third album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker

Anita Baker

Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....

. It was Baker's first and only #1 Pop album

Billboard 200

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 in the US, the second #1 R&B Album

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

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, and was certified 3x platinum

Platinum

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 in 1989 by the RIAA.

The title track was released as the first single from the album and became Baker's highest charting single in the US, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album also earned Baker three Grammy Awards and three Soul Train Music Awards

Soul Train Music Awards

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Track listing

1. "Priceless" (Garry Glenn) 5:00
2. "Lead Me Into Love" (Steve Lane, Larry Prentiss) 4:45
3. "Giving You the Best That I Got
   Giving You the Best That I Got (song)
   "Giving You the Best That I Got" is the title of a 1988 song by the American R&B / soul jazz singer Anita Baker. The song appears on Baker's album of the same name, which was released in the fall of that year...
   
   " (Baker, Randy Holland, Skip Scarborough
   Skip Scarborough
   Skip Scarborough was a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, best known for romantic ballads.-Biography:Born Clarence Alexander Scarborough in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he lived in Los Angeles most of his life....
   
   ) 4:18
4. "Good Love" (Gary Taylor) 5:39
5. "Rules" (Graham Lamb, Phil Nicholl, Maggie Ryder) 3:52
6. "Good Enough" (Baker, James McBride) 4:50
7. "Just Because
   Just Because (Anita Baker song)
   "Just Because" is a 1989 single by Anita Baker. The single was the second release from her LP, "Giving You the Best That I Got". "Just Because" peaked at number one on the Hot Black Singles, making it Anita Baker's second and final number one. The single also made the Top 40, peaking at number...
   
   " (Alex Brown, Sammy McKinney, Michael O'Hara) 5:13
8. "You Belong To Me" (Terry Britten
   Terry Britten
   Terry Britten is a prolific English singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Tina Turner and Sir Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Status Quo, Michael Jackson and many others.-Career:...
   
   , Billy Livsey, Graham Lyle) 3:43

Production

• Executive Producer: Anita Baker
• Produced By Michael J. Powell
  Michael J. Powell
  Michael J. Powell is an American R&B musician, record producer and arranger who is best known for his work as producer for eight time Grammy Award-winning soul / R&B vocalist Anita Baker....
  
  
• Mixed & Engineered By Nick Viterelli, Elliot Peters, Bruce Nazarian, Milton Chan, Craig Burbridge, Mike Brown
• Mastered By Bernie Grundman
• A&R By Raoul Roach

Personnel

• Anita Baker: Lead Vocals, Executive Producer, Vocal Arrangements
• Gerald Albright
  Gerald Albright
  Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist.Albright has sold over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S. alone. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar, keyboards, flutes, drum programming, and background vocals.- Biography :...
  
  , Reverend Dave Boruff: Saxophone
• Reverend Dave Boruff, Robbie Buchanan
  Robbie Buchanan
  Robbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...
  
  , Sonny Burke, George Duke
  George Duke
  George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...
  
  , Vernon D. Fails, Sir Gant, Bobby Lyle
  Bobby Lyle
  Bobby Lyle is a jazz, soul jazz, and smooth jazz pianist. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota in a home near the corner of Park Avenue and 32nd Street. His father, reportedly, was a sports writer for the Star Tribune newspaper.He had his first gig at 16 and...
  
  , Patrick Moten
  Patrick Moten
  Patrick Moten was an American musician and songwriter, who co-wrote Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now"...
  
  , Bruce Nazarian, Peter Schwartz, David Spradley, Gary Taylor, Neal Walker: Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  : Bass
• Chuck Findley
  Chuck Findley
  Chuck Findley is an American session musician. Most widely-known as a trumpet player, he also plays other brass instruments such as flugelhorn and trombone...
  
  : Trumpet
• Donnie Lyle, Paul Jackson Jr., Kevin Moore, Michael J. Powell
  Michael J. Powell
  Michael J. Powell is an American R&B musician, record producer and arranger who is best known for his work as producer for eight time Grammy Award-winning soul / R&B vocalist Anita Baker....
  
  : Guitars
• Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim is an American jazz, jazz fusion and pop music drummer.Hakim credits jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri with giving him his first break in 1980; Hakim appeared in a video with Mainieri called The Jazz Life and began working with singer Carly Simon through Mainieri...
  
  , Joseph Vitarelli, Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
  : Drums, Percussion
• The Perri Sisters - Carol Perri, Lori Perri, Darlene Perri, Sharon Perri - background vocals

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US 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...	1
US Billboard Top R&B Albums	1
UK Album Chart	9

Singles

Year	Title	US Pop Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	US R&B
1988	"Giving You the Best That I Got"	3	1
	"Just Because Just Because (Anita Baker song) "Just Because" is a 1989 single by Anita Baker. The single was the second release from her LP, "Giving You the Best That I Got". "Just Because" peaked at number one on the Hot Black Singles, making it Anita Baker's second and final number one. The single also made the Top 40, peaking at number... "	14	1
1989	"Lead Me Into Love"	-	4

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1988 (U.S.)
• List of number-one R&B albums of 1989 (U.S.)
• List of number-one albums of 1988 (U.S.)
• List of number-one albums of 1989 (U.S.)