What You See Is What You Sweat

What You See Is What You Sweat is the thirty-third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on June 25, 1991, by Arista Records. It peaked at number 153 on Billboard's album chart, dropping off after seven weeks. This was Franklin's first new release in the Nielsen SoundScan era.

Personnel

 * Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, piano, background vocals
 * Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
 * Peter Schwartz – additional keyboards
 * Michel Legrand – synthesizer
 * Franck Thore – Pan pipes
 * Dean Parks – guitar
 * Burt Bacharach – keyboards
 * Marcus Miller – bass guitar
 * Thierry Eliez – piano
 * Elliot Wolff – keyboards, drum programming
 * Teddy F. White – guitar
 * Al Turner – bass guitar
 * Buster Marbury – drums
 * Michael Boddicker – keyboards, programming
 * Larry Fratangelo – percussion
 * Hubert Eaves III – keyboards, drum programming
 * Charles Scales – synthesizer
 * Rick Iantosca – acoustic guitar
 * Oliver Leiber – keyboards, drum programming, guitar
 * Jason Miles – keyboards
 * Dominique Bertram – bass guitar
 * Joshua Thompson – keyboards, guitar, synthesizer
 * Vernon Black – guitar
 * Randy Waldman – keyboards
 * Onita Sanders – harp
 * André Ceccarelli – drums
 * Louis Biancaniello – keyboards, programming
 * Larry Williams – programming
 * David Foster – keyboards, programming
 * Paulinho da Costa – percussion
 * Candy Dulfer – saxophone
 * Guy Vaughn – drum programming
 * David Townsend – guitar
 * Narada Michael Walden – drums, programming
 * Nat Adderley Jr. – keyboards
 * Bobby Wooten – keyboards, electric piano, drum programming, synthesizer
 * David Boruff – saxophone
 * Rudolph Stansfield – piano
 * Jean-Marc Benais – guitar
 * Gene Lennon – programming
 * Skip Anderson – keyboards
 * Cindy Mizelle – background vocals
 * Jesse Richardson – background vocals
 * Sandra Feva – background vocals
 * Brenda Corbett – background vocals
 * Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
 * Diane Green – background vocals
 * Sherry Fox – background vocals
 * Portia Griffin – background vocals
 * Margaret Branch – background vocals
 * Jarvis Barker – background vocals
 * Nikita Germaine – background vocals
 * Skyler Jett – background vocals
 * Jeanie Tracy – background vocals
 * Tony Lindsay – background vocals
 * Gwen Guthrie – background vocals
 * Tawatha Agee – background vocals
 * Donna Davis – background vocals
 * Marj Harber – background vocals
 * Esther Ridgeway – background vocals
 * Gloria Ridgeway – background vocals
 * Gracie Ridgeway – background vocals