Joyce Berry - People In Love - CD single cover and booklet

When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce

Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio,

called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more

familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a

sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song

over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to

sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his

tenor. Their 1977 original is the Leo Sayer-style ballad according to

amazon.com though other critics from rateyourmusic.com complained that

their original was a bit too stale, a lot too bread-and-butter while her

1982 soft and percussive ballad version with soft shakers, soft drums

and soft congas playing is the Timi Yuro-style ballad.

Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad

voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley &

Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde,

rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the

abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland

and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer some of Eric

Stewart & Graham Gouldman only from the mid-'70s better that have

more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that

I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the

straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more

comfortable with.