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 Be (The Replacements album) R.E.M.'s "Murmur", the Pixies' "Surfer Rosa", and Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation". Eric Boehlert of "Salon" called it a "post-punk classic". Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy wrote of "Let It Be" in an edition of the 33⅓ series dedicated to the album: "I listened to "Let It Be" endlessly. The record seemed to encapsulate perfectly all of the feelings that were churning inside me [...] Paul Westerberg's weary voice sounded from my boombox and I trembled to think that here I was, thirteen and the 'hardest age' was still three years in the making." In a 2005 review, "Rolling Stone"s Christian Hoard wrote