Jump to It
Studio album by Aretha Franklin
Released	July 26, 1982
Studio	Mediasound, New York City Record Plant, Los Angeles Village Recorder, Los Angeles Soundsuite, Detroit
Genre	R&B
Length	42:40
Label	Arista
Producer	Luther Vandross Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin chronology
Love All the Hurt Away (1981) Jump to It (1982) Get It Right (1983)
Singles from Jump to It
"Jump to It" Released: June 1982 "Love Me Right" Released: 1982 "This Is for Real" Released: 1983

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B+[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

Jump to It is the twenty-eighth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, produced by Luther Vandross and released on July 26, 1982, by Arista Records.

Background

Jump to It gave Franklin her tenth number one R&B album – at the time it was the all-time record. It enjoyed a seven-week run at number one on Billboard's R&B albums chart and also reached number 23 on Billboard's Pop albums chart. It was hailed as a comeback album, given that it provided Franklin with her first Gold-certified disc and Top 40 Pop song since Sparkle in 1976.

The title track, "Jump to It", was Franklin's first Top 40 Pop hit since 1976, and her first number one R&B hit since 1977's "Break It to Me Gently". "Jump to It" was nominated for a Grammy Award. The album itself received an American Music Award for Best Soul Album in 1983.

Commercial performance

On February 1, 1983, Jump to It was certified Gold by the RIAA. Franklin was presented her framed Gold record in Detroit by her long-time friends the Four Tops. In 2005, Patrick Alavi released "Come to Me", which used a sample of "Jump to It".

Reception

Armond White of Spin complained about "Luther Vandross's piss-elegant Jump to It, which, despite the lively title track, mistakenly bent Aretha into Dionne Warwick postures amid the iciness of the Chic background singers."^[4]

Track listing

Personnel

Performers

Production

• Producers – Luther Vandross (tracks 1–5, 7 & 8); Aretha Franklin (track 6).
• Production coordination – Sephra Herman
• Recorded and mixed by Michael Brauer
• Additional engineers – Carl Beatty and Lee Keifer
• Assistant engineers – Michael Christopher, Karat Faye, John Hanlon, Harry Spiridakis, Don Wershba and Warren Woods.
• Recorded at Mediasound Studios (New York, NY), Record Plant (Los Angeles, CA), The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA) and Soundsuite (Detroit, MI).
• Mastered By Robert Ludwig Masterdisk
• Music contractors – Sephra Herman and Trevor Veitch
• Art direction and design – Ria Lewerke-Shapiro
• Photography – Harry Langdon
• Lettering – Sue Reilly