Let's Hear It for the Boy (album) and George Duke produced four more. The production of the album was completed in early May 1984 before the album was released a few weeks later. Carl Matthews of the "Baltimore Afro-American" newspaper called the album "more tempo than her previous releases." Let's Hear It for the Boy (album) Let's Hear It for the Boy is an album by American recording artist Deniece Williams released in 1984 for Columbia and CBS Records. The album reached number 10 on the "Billboard" pop chart and number 26 on the R&B Albums. It was produced by American multi-instrumentalist George Duke who also actively
Let It Down own. The producer's cosmic sound proved a perfect complement to the artist's cosmic vision." Author Robert Rodriguez groups "Let It Down" with other Beatles-era compositions such as "All Things Must Pass", "Isn't It a Pity" and "Wah-Wah", as the "essential components" of an album that was "revelatory, helping the public understand that, with a talent this big alongside two acknowledged geniuses [in Lennon and McCartney], no wonder the group could not remain intact". In his album review for the "NME", Alan Smith noted "Let It Down"'s "big fuzzy" introduction against its verses' "quiet acid float" and admired the "romantic delicacy