Hi-Five (album)

Hi-Five is the debut album by the American R&B vocal group Hi-Five. Released on September 25, 1990, The album peaked at number thirty eight on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Driven by the hit singles "I Just Can't Handle It" (R&B #10), "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" (#1 R&B/Pop), "I Can't Wait Another Minute" (R&B #1, Pop #8) and "Just Another Girlfriend" (R&B #41), the album received an RIAA platinum certification. Also, Hi-Five is the only album to feature original Hi-Five member Toriano Easley, who was arrested for first-degree murder and manslaughter after the album was recorded but just before it was released. Easley is heard sharing lead vocals on "The Way You Said Goodbye", "Rag Doll", "I Can't Wait Another Minute", and "I Know Love". In the video for "I Can't Wait Another Minute", Easley's replacement Treston Irby lip-syncs Easley's part.

Background

The song, "Too Young" (in a single edit version), also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz n the Hood. It is the first recorded appearance of Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy who was 15 when this song was released, which he revealed in his book My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.

Track listing

Personnel

Hi-Five

Tony Thompson – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals

Roderick Clark – harmony and backing vocals

Marcus Sanders – harmony and backing vocals

Toriano Easley – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals

Russell Neal – harmony and backing vocals

Additional singers

Bernard Bell – backing vocals

Tim Cashion – backing vocals

Roiz Davis – backing vocals

Gordon Dukes – backing vocals

LaGaylia Frazier – backing vocals

Frederick Gordon – backing vocals

Dave Hollister – backing vocals

John James – backing vocals

Alvin Moody – backing vocals

Teddy Riley – backing vocals

Sean LaBreeze – backing vocals

Musicians

Carl Bourelly – keyboards, drum programming

William Walton – keyboards, drum programming

Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitars, keyboards

Fritz Cadet – guitar

Josh Grau – guitar

Frankie Smith – guitar

Patricia Halligan - guitar

Vincent Henry – harmonica, saxophone

Kevin Johnson – keyboards, drums, percussion

Sean Richards – drum programming

Eric Foster White – keyboards, drum programming, trombone

DeVante Swing – mixing

Charts

References

External links

Production information at discogs

1990 debut albums

Hi-Five albums

Jive Records albums

Albums produced by Teddy Riley