Somehow, the albums from 1988, my high school graduation year, have held up very well and still get some radio airplay! Al B Sure is one of them! Although he had to compete with Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown for R&B male artist chart dominance, his album was a superb effort all throughout! The sexy Nite and Day still sounds fabulous! The new jack sounds of Off on Your Own Girl, which he won a Soul Train Music Award for, still are funky! His remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly is still fabulous. And songs like Naturally Mine and If I'm Not Your Lover are still nicely done! The high point of this album is the musicianship of Al B. Sure and Kyle West who produced most of the songs. Their construction of the songs and melodies are very masterful. And Teddy Riley produced one song, but nobody noticed it even when his group Guy was a major hit in '88. Sure couldn't match this success on his later albums, but this is a fine debut by him, one of the '80s best R&B albums!

One of the biggest hit albums of 1988, and still better than anything he did after it, Al B. Sure! (born Al Brown on 6-4-68) was a silky-smooth vocalist who sent many a young girl into dreamland with the mega-hit "Nite And Day." Hard as it may be to believe, I never knew that Al B. Sure! was the artist responsible for the great song "Off On Your Own (Girl)," something that I only discovered accidentally when I bought the album in 2005 (the first time I ever bought the album in it's entirety). I was buying it mainly so I could take the disc and record "Nite And Day" to my computer. Now, as great as "Nite And Day" was, "Off On Your Own (Girl) is definitely my favorite Al B. Sure! song. It's instantly recognizable, but not nearly as played-out as "Nite And Day."

Oh How I miss Al B. Sure!!!

He was DaBomb to me I only pray one day to hear new cd from him.

"Off On Your Own" "Rescue Me" I can just go on and own on how exciting it was when He,Bobby Brown,New Edition,etc were on tour at The Capital Center in D.C.years ago! Thats when music was just fun and not about all the glitz and glamour crap it's on now.

Al B. Sure! was the boy-toy that every girl wanted to play with back in 88'. I cannot tell you how may times I rewinded "Night and Day!" I still love this album!

Being that I'm still a teen, many people would figure that I don't listen to much old R&B and that albums like this one I wouldn't listen to. Once I first listen to Al B. Sure a long time ago on the smash hit "Nite And Day", I knew that I had to listen to more of him. After getting the album from my parent's collection, I put it in and I was straight up amazed. This is how soul/r&b should be.

The album starts off with the smash hit "Nite And Day". I you haven't listened to this song at all, you need to go download it now because it's a classic song. "Oooh This Love Is So" took me a couple of listens to get into but I'm starting to like it a lot. "Killing Me Softly" is the gem of the whole album. I can't ever stop listening to this song and it can never get song. Al B. Sure's smooth harmony and singing got me into this song a lot and it's the masterpiece of the album. I love "Naturally Mine" as well because it's a slow, laid back track where Al B. Sure shines. "Resuce Me" is another track that I love because it seems to bring that old hip-hop feel for some reason and it's a song you can get down to. "Off Your Own(Girl)" is another big hit that got Al B Sure started and a lot of your parents should remember this song. "If I'm Not Your Lover" is more like a song where Al B. Sure is pleading to his song about him wanting to be her lover. The album then ends with "Just A Taste of Lovin" and the Spanish remix of Nite and Day with "Noche y Dia"

If you a big fan of 80's music and New Jack Swing, you definitely need to go get this album. Anybody can get into this album no matter what age group you are. I definitely recommend it.