Baby Won't You Change Your Mind

After the success of Black Ivory's Top 20 debut album, Don't Turn Around (#13 on the R&B/Soul Chart)[1], earlier in that year, they went back into the studio seven months later to record Baby Won't You Change Your Mind. It was released at the end of 1972. The first single from the album, "Time Is Love", written by Patrick Adams and David Jordan was a top 40 hit peaking at #37 on the Billboard's R&B chart chart in February 1973.[2] The B-side, featured as song from their debut album, "Got to Be There" which is a remake of Michael Jackson's 1971 song, and written by Elliot Willensky. The second and final single from the album, "Spinning Around", was written by Adams, Jordan and June Anderson. It was released in 1973 and peaked at #45 on the Billboard's R&B chart.[3]

Andrew Hamilton, reviewing the album on AllMusic, described it as "A more even affair than their first LP", and praised Adams' songs and productions alongside Leroy Burgess's vocals and Stuart Bascombe's and Russell Patterson's "arresting harmonies".[4]

Baby Won't You Change Your Mind stayed on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart for 13 weeks and peaked at No. 26 on March 3, 1973.[5] The album peaked at No. 188 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart during a 7-week run.[6]

All tracks are written by Patrick Adams and David Jordan, except where noted.

Black Ivory

• Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe and Russell Patterson – vocals

Production

• Produced, by Patrick Adams and David Jordan
• Arranged by Patrick Peter Adams
• Album design by Fred Stark
• Engineer – Eddie Korvin
• Engineer (mixing) – David Jordan, Eddie Korvin, Patrick Adams
• Pressure provided by Boo Frazier, Terry Philips
• Cover photography by Reginald Wickham
• Liner photography by Bob Demchuck, Lenny Adams, Terry Adams

Singles