Description
Brother Beyond – Trust / Gong Audio CD 1989
HCDL 37373
Trust is the second album of the British boy band / pop group Brother Beyond, released in 1989, by EMI / Parlophone (later re-released by Gong label). It was their last album, since they disbanded. After their two major hits, "The Harder I Try" and "He Ain't No Competition", written for them by famous producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, the band, as lead singer Nathan Moore puts it on his Official Website, "made the classic mistake of thinking they did not need Stock Aitken and Waterman... We wrote the whole of the next album ourselves and (it) bombed totally". The three singles taken from the Trust album were only minor hits, getting no higher than the UK Top 40. The first, "Drive On", which was also the opening track of Side 2 on the vinyl edition, got to Number 39, in October 1989. The second, "When Will I See You Again?", a soulful ballad by The Three Degrees (written by popular composing duo Gamble & Huff), stopped at Number 43, in December 1989. The third and last, "Trust", the title-track and opener to the whole album, stalled at Number 53, in March 1990.
EMI America gave the band a push to conquer the USA market, and the American release of the album, which was released in mid-1990, dropped one song, "Universal", and added two new songs, which were released as singles: "The Girl I Used to Know" and "Just A Heartbeat Away" produced by American producers Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers. "The Girl I Used to Know" was released as the lead single off the album in the US and became a top 40 hit in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 27. It was released as a non-album single in Europe in early 1991, and peaked at No. 48 in the UK.
Tracklist:
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Trust" | Carl Fysh, David White | 3:58 |
| 2. | "You Never Tell Me" | Fysh, Jeff Lorber, White | 3:43 |
| 3. | "I Believe in You" | Fysh, White | 4:27 |
| 4. | "Now I'm Alone with You" | Fysh, White | 3:46 |
| 5. | "Let Me Decide" | Fysh, White | 4:21 |
| 6. | "Drive On" | Fysh, White | 4:05 |
| 7. | "Perfect Love" | Fysh, White | 3:50 |
| 8. | "When Will I See You Again" (The Three Degrees cover) | Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Universal" | Fysh, White | 3:33 |
| 10. | "Outside Our Lives" | Fysh, White | 5:53 |
| 1 | Trust | 3:58 |
| 2 | You Never Tell Me | 3:43 |
| 3 | I Believe In You
Engineer [Additional] – Hugo Nicolson, Steve "Barney" Chase, Mixed By – Pete Schwier |
4:27 |
| 4 | Now I'm Alone With You
Engineer [Additional] – Hugo Nicolson, Steve "Barney" Chase, Mixed By – Bryan "Chuck" New |
3:46 |
| 5 | Let Me Decide
Featuring [Rap] – Dizzie Heights, Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Adam Moseley |
4:21 |
| 6 | Drive On | 4:05 |
| 7 | Perfect Love
Engineer – Hugo Nicolson, Mixed By – Bryan "Chuck" New |
3:50 |
| 8 | When Will I See You Again
Engineer – Hugo Nicolson, Engineer [Additional] – Adam Moseley, Mixed By – Pete Schwier |
3:34 |
| 9 | Universal | 3:33 |
| 10 |
Outside Our Lives
Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Adam Moseley |
5:53 |
- Arranged By – Jeff Lorber (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9)
- Backing Vocals – Beverley Skeete, Claudia Fontaine, Janice Hoyte, John Sloman, Leroy Osbourne
- Engineer – Keith Cohen (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 9)
- Guitar – Phil Palmer
- Keyboards – Andy Wright
- Keyboards, Programmed By – Jeff Lorber, Steve Pigott
- Mastered By – Nick Webb
- Mixed By – Keith Cohen (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9)
- Producer – Jeff Lorber (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9), Keith Cohen (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 9)
- Saxophone – Phil Todd
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Guy Barker
- Written-By – C. Fysh (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), D. White (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10), Gamble/Huff (tracks: 8), J. Lorber (tracks: 2, 7), S. Alexander (tracks: 7)
"Trust" is a 1990 single by British boy band / pop group Brother Beyond, taken from their second album, also entitled Trust, released in 1989. It made the Top 60 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at Number 53, in March 1990. After six consecutive hits to peak inside the Top 50, this song failed to extend that record, but it was, anyway, their ninth consecutive Top 60 hit (having their first single, "I Should Have Lied" failed to chart in the UK Top 75, back in 1986, while their second single, "How Many Times", had only reached Number 62, in 1987). The follow-up to the Trust single, the tune called "The Girl I Used to Know", charting at Number 48, would be their tenth consecutive Top 60, and seventh Top 50 hit in general. Released in January 1991, this latter song would be their very last single, since the group disbanded soon after, though attaining some success with that track in the United States.
The song was written by band members David Ben White and Carl Fysh.
