Various Artists

Real Gone brings to vinyl a two-LP edition of the soundtrack to the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale.  Produced (with most of the songs written by) Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, the soundtrack was a huge smash in the mid-1990s featuring songs by Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin, Brandy, TLC, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, SWV and Patti LaBelle, among others.  The album topped the Billboard charts and was eventually certified 7x platinum.  Seven of its sixteen songs were released as singles.  It also garnered critical acclaim too as it received 11 Grammy nominations in 1997, including Album of the Year.  Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" won for Best R&B Song.  The soundtrack was never released on vinyl in the U.S. and this new purple vinyl edition is limited to 1,000 copies.