'Tomorrow (A Better You, a Better Me)' is a song originally recorded by the Brothers Johnson as an instrumental in 1976 on the album Look Out for #1.

• 1Quincy Jones/Tevin Campbell version

Quincy Jones/Tevin Campbell version[edit]

In 1989, Siedah Garrett wrote lyrics to the song, and it was recorded by Quincy Jones featuring Tevin Campbell on vocals for the album Back on the Block. The new version of the song spent one week at number one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number seventy-five on the US pop chart in June 1990.^[1] It was Campbell's first number-one R&B single and first single to enter the Billboard Hot 100.

Tevin Jermod Campbell (born November 12, 1976) is a five-time Grammy-nominated American R&B singer-songwriter. Campbell scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s.

Personnel[edit]

• Tevin Campbell – Lead Vocals
• McKinley Brown – Background Vocals
• Kenneth Ford – Background Vocals
• Jaimee Foxworth – Background Vocals
• Siedah Garrett – Choir Director
• Rose Banks – Choir Director
• Chad Durio – Background Vocals
• Alex Harris – Background Vocals
• Reginale Green – Background Vocals
• Charity Young – Background Vocals
• Shane Shoaf – Background Vocals
• Tyren Perry – Background Vocals
• Tiffany Johnson – Background Vocals
• Donovan McCrary – Background Vocals
• Salim Grant – Guitar
• Jerry Hey – Arranger
• Gerald Albright – Alto saxophone solo
• Steve Lukather – Guitar
• Ollie Brown – Percussion
• John Robinson – Drums
• Bruce Swedien – Recording Engineer, Mixing
• Brad Sundberg – Technical Director, additional engineering
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• Randy Kerber – Bass Synth
• Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes
• Rod Temperton – Arranger
• Quincy Jones – Arranger

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In 1990, smooth jazz musician Nelson Rangell covered the song from his self-titled album.^[2]

Tomorrow/Bokra[edit]

Tomorrow / Bokra (Arabic: بكرا‎) is the Arab version of the song which is produced by Quincy Jones, RedOne & Badr Jafar.

The lyrics were written by the Lebanese singer Majida El Roumi and music was rearranged by Kadim Al Sahir.

The music video was directed by Malek Akkad son of deceased Arab film director Moustapha Akkad. It features the artists performing their sections of the song in close-ups or collectively and children running and / or playing sports.

The song featured 24 Arab singers representing 16 Arab nations across the Middle East and North Africa plus Akon and Shakira who introduced it.

The singers taking part are:(in alphabetical order of family name)

The recording and filming was done over two phases. The first phase of filming took place in May 2011 in Rabat in Morocco supported by the annual Mawazine music festival. The second and final phase of recording and filming took place in Doha in October 2011. The second phase was in collaboration with Associate Producers, the Doha Film Institute (DFI), and the Qatar Museums Authority.

Global premiere[edit]

The world premiere of Tomorrow-Bokra was held in Dubai on 11 November 2011, at the One&Only, The Palm in Dubai. The event was held under the royal patronage of Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, wife of Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The world premiere of the song and video was simulcast live on MBC in the Middle East and North Africa, and on the youtube.com/tomorrowbokra channel in other parts of the world.^[3]

Bokra the Film[edit]

Bokra The Film, featured the formation of the charity song and music video of Tomorrow-Bokra and its impact on the lives of disadvantaged youth. It premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on 17 December 2014 Madinat Souk Theatre in the Madinat Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai. The film sponsors were the Global Gumbo Group (G3). It was directed by Emirati filmmaker Ahmed Abdulqader and co-produced by Grammy Award winning music producer Quincy Jones, Emirati social entrepreneur Badr Jafar, and Emirati director Ali F. Mostafa. The film showcases the influence of the arts on disadvantage youths in war-ravaged nations from Morocco to Jordan.^[4]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 307.
2. ^'Nelson Rangell overview'. Allmusic.com.
3. ^'Akon joins Arab artists for charity single'. Emirates 247. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
4. ^'Bokra the Film by Ahmed Abdulqader follows up on Quincy Jones's Arab charity project'. The National. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

External links[edit]

Tevin Campbell Song Tomorrow

• Official Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyZ2K8tEwC0
• Official website http://www.tomorrowbokra.org
• Official YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/TOMORROWBOKRA

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