Give Me the Reason Songwriting Credits by Luther Vandross

Vandross wrote or co-wrote eight of the nine tracks, and two of those, 'So Amazing' and 'Because It's Really Love,' carry his name alone. Marcus Miller, whose legal name is William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., co-wrote three. Nat Adderley Jr. co-wrote 'Stop to Love' and the title track. 'There's Nothing Better Than Love' goes to Vandross and John Vernon Anderson, credited on the sleeve as Skip Anderson. The ninth track is not a Vandross song in any sense: 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick in 1963, so the writing credit there is theirs and Vandross is the singer only. Production lines up with the writing but not exactly. He produced all nine and Miller produced eight, and the one Miller is missing from is the title track, which the LP sleeve credits to Vandross alone because it came off the Ruthless People film soundtrack.