Justs to touch on phunkdaddy's response....Oliver Lieber is also on the new Fdeluxe project, as a player, and I think as a cowriter on a song or two.

Just for the record, here are the credits on Paula's album:

1. "The Way That You Love Me" (Oliver Leiber) – 5:22 (#3 US)
2. "Knocked Out" (Babyface; Daryl Simmons; L.A. Reid) – 3:52 (#41 US)
3. "Opposites Attract" (w/The Wild Pair) (Oliver Leiber) – 4:24 (#1 US)*
4. "State of Attraction" (Glen Ballard; Siedah Garrett) – 4:07
5. "I Need You" (Jesse Johnson; Ta Mara) – 5:01
6. "Forever Your Girl" (Oliver Leiber) – 4:58 (#1 US)
7. "Straight Up" (Elliot Wolff) – 4:11 (#1 US)
8. "Next To You" (Curtis "Fitz" Williams; K. Stubbs; S. Williams) – 4:26
9. "Cold Hearted" (Elliot Wolff) – 3:51 (#1 US)
10. "One or the Other" (Paula Abdul; Curtis "Fitz" Williams; Duncan Pain) – 4:10

• Tracks 1, 3 & 6 - Produced by Oliver Leiber for The Noise Club
• Track 2 - Produced by L.A. Reid & Babyface for LaFace Productions, Inc.
• Track 4 - Produced by Glen Ballard for Aerowave, Inc.
• Track 5 - Produced by Jesse Johnson for J.W.J. Productions, Inc. & Co-Produced by Dave Cochrane
• Tracks 7 & 9 - Produced & Arranged by Elliot Wolff & Co-Produced by Keith "K.C" Cohen
• Tracks 8 & 10 - Produced & Arranged by Curtis Williams for Willpower Productions
• Engineers: Russ Bracher, Wally Buck, Francis Buckley, Jon Gass, Tim Jacquette, Cliff Jones, Jeff Lorber, Kendal Stubbs, Steve Weise
• Assistant Engineers: Annette Cisneros, Al Fleming, Danny Grigsby, Cliff Jones, Pat McDougal, Josh Schneider
• Mixing: Francis Buckley, Keith "KC" Cohen, Tim Jacquette
• Mix Assistant: Peter Arata

• Lead Vocals - Paula Abdul
• Drums: Glen Ballard, Jesse Johnson, L.A. Reid, Chuck Wild
• Drum Programming: Oliver Leiber, Jeff Lorber, L.A. Reid, Elliott Wolff
• Bass: St. Paul
• Synth Bass: Kayo
• Guitars: Dave Cochrane, Basil Fung, Bobby Gonzales, Dann Huff, Oliver Leiber, Bob Somma
• Keyboards,Fairlight CMI: Babyface, Jesse Johnson, Kayo, Oliver Leiber, Jeff Lorber, Ricky P., St. Paul, Randy Weber, Curtis "Fitz" Williams, Elliott Wolff
• Saxophone: Eddie M., Troy Williams
• MC Skat Kat vocals in the "Opposites Attract" video: The Wild Pair

I used to jam to the album version of "The Way That You Love Me" back then, especially the breakdown of "We dancin'" at the end. The male vocalist, whoever he is, just buts in and ad-libs with laughs and yelps ("I'm watchin' you girl!"), while Paula is in the background making small noises ("uh!"). Crazy...I loved that funky/rocky Minneapolis sound it had.

After that is "Knocked Out," which got heavy airplay on R&B radio stations back then (thanks to LA/Babyface's production). It's amazing this song didn't do well on mainstream pop radio, despite 2 attempts -- the original album version and later, Shep Pettibone's remix that was released after Paula's popularity exploded.

this is an album full of catchy songs

Also interesting to note that Pebbles sang background vocals on various songs.