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Real Men... Wear Black is a studio album by the funk group Cameo released in 1990 on Atlanta Artists/Mercury Records.[3] The album reached No. 18 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart.[4]

Real Men... Wear Black
Studio album by Cameo
Released	June 11, 1990
Recorded	1989–1990
Genre	Funk[1] black rock[2]
Length	40:35
Label	Atlanta Artists/Polygram Records
Producer	Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology
Machismo (1988) Real Men... Wear Black (1990) Emotional Violence (1991)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
New York Times	(favourable)[1]
USA Today	(favourable)[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
People	(favourable)[9]

Jon Pareles of the New York Times stated that "Larry Blackmon's cracked nasal voice keeps the band funny and unpretentious, especially when kicking up its well honed midtempo funk".[1] Allmusic gave the album a three out of five star rating.[5] Chris Heim of the Chicago Tribune noted that Real Men is another solid example of Cameo`s approach to the sound" of "black rock."[2] Don Waller of the Los Angeles Times also proclaimed "using a krazee-quilt combination of synthetic/organic keyboards ‘n’ hipshot! percussion, greazy basslines and goofbawl vocals, (heavy on the minor sevenths), Cameo rolls back the rug for a wall-to-off-the-wall dance party".[6]

Singles

I Want It Now reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.[10] Close Quarters also reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.[11]

Track listing

[3]

Personnel

• Backing Vocals – Charlie Singleton, Larry Blackmon, Nathan Leftenant, Tomi Jenkins, Willie Morris
• Bass – Aaron Mills
• Design – Reiner Design Consultants, Inc.
• Drums, Percussion – Larry Blackmon
• Engineer [Assistant] – Milton Chan, Paul Speck
• Engineer [Mixing] – Barney Perkins
• Engineer [Recording] – Barney Perkins, Christopher Rutherford
• Guitar – Charlie Singleton
• Keyboards – Charlie Singleton, Kevin Kendricks, Robert Smith, Billy Allen
• Lead Vocals – Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Willie Morris

Photography By – David Vance

• Producer – Larry Blackmon
• Programmed By – Kevin Kendricks, Robert Smith, Billy Allen
• Saxophone – Melvin Wells
• Scratches – Smoove & Konduko
• Trombone – Jeryl Bright
• Trumpet – Nathan Leftenant[3]

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak position
1990	US Billboard Top Soul Albums	18[4]
	US Billboard 200	84

References

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