I'm So Proud

"Do What You Feel" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/deniece-williams/chart-history/bsi/|title=Deniece Williams: Do What You Feel (Hot Soul Songs)|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=}} A cover of Curtis Mayfield's "I'm So Proud" reached No. 28 on the same chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/deniece-williams/chart-history/bsi/|title=Deniece Williams: I'm So Proud (Hot Soul Songs)|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=}}

{{Music ratings

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|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

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|rev3 = The Village Voice

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Connie Johnson of the Los Angeles Times called I'm So Proud "Williams' most consistently fine work in ages... The album works due to fresh-sounding, quality material. This is black pop at its most enterprising."{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|153475896}} |last1=Johnson |first1=Connie |title=WILLIAMS CAN BE PROUD |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=12 June 1983 |page=t59 }} Robert Christgau of The Village Voice found that "Williams has progressed, as they say, from Thom Bell's pop romanticism to George Duke's cosmic idealism." Phyl Garland of Stereo Review professed, "I'm So Proud shows why Deniece Williams has every right to be. It's simply superb."{{cite magazine|date=October 1983 |title="I'm So Proud" Is a Stunning Showcase for Deniece Williams |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-HiFI-Stereo/80s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1983-10.pdf|access-date=July 18, 2023|author=Phyl Garland|volume=48|number=10|page=69|magazine=Stereo Review}}

I'm So Proud was Grammy nominated in the category of Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/deniece-williams|title=Deniece Williams|publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|website=grammy.com}}

{{Track listing

|title1 = Do What You Feel

|writer1 = Deniece Williams, George Duke

|length1 = 4:24

|title2 = I'm So Proud

|writer2 = Curtis Mayfield

|length2 = 3:55

|title3 = So Deep In Love

|note3 = Duet with Johnny Mathis

|writer3 = Jeff Barry, Bruce Roberts

|length3 = 4:22

|title4 = I'm Glad It's You

|writer4 = Deniece Williams

|length4 = 3:28

|title5 = Heaven In Your Eyes

|writer5 = Raymond Jones

|length5 = 4:54

|title6 = They Say

|note6 = Featuring Philip Bailey

|writer6 = Terri McFaddin, Skip Scarborough

|length6 = 7:10

|title7 = Love, Peace And Unity

|writer7 = Scott Sigman

|length7 = 5:36

|title8 = It's Okay

|writer8 = Deniece Williams, George Duke

|length8 = 5:26

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• Deniece WillIams – lead vocals, backing vocals (6, 7)
• George Duke – electric piano (1, 4, 5, 8), synthesizers (1, 4, 5, 8), acoustic piano (5)
• Jerry Peters – keyboards (2, 6)
• George Merrill – synthesizers (2, 3, 6), backing vocals (2, 6)
• Brian Mann – keyboards (3)
• Tyrone Downie – keyboards (7)
• Michael Sembello – guitars (1, 5, 8)
• Jeff Baxter – guitars (2, 3, 6)
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars (2, 3, 6)
• Ronald Butler – guitars (7)
• Louis Johnson – bass (1, 4, 5, 8)
• Freddie Washington – bass (2, 3, 6)
• John "Shaun" Solomon – bass (7)
• Ricky Lawson – drums (1, 4, 5, 8)
• Denny Seiwell – drums (2, 3, 6), percussion (3)
• Errol Corwin – drums (7)
• Bob Zimmitti – percussion (2, 6)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (5, 8)
• Lenny Castro – percussion (6)
• Kenny Florendo – percussion (7)
• Larry McDonald – percussion (7)
• Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone (1)
• Lee Oskar – harmonica (2)
• Bill Neale – arrangements and conductor (2, 3, 6), backing vocals (2)
• Philip Bailey – backing vocals (2, 6)
• Carl Carwell – backing vocals (2, 6)
• Oren Waters – backing vocals (2, 6)
• Johnny Mathis – lead vocals (3)

• Larkin Arnold – executive producer
• George Duke – producer (1, 4, 5, 8)
• Bill Neale – producer (2, 3, 6)
• Deniece WillIams – producer (2, 3, 6, 7)
• Peter Chaiken – engineer (1, 4, 5, 8)
• Tommy Vicari – recording (1, 4, 5, 8), mixing (1, 4, 5, 8)
• Don Murray – engineer (2, 3, 6), mixing (2, 3, 6)
• Kenny Florendo – engineer (7)
• Wally Traugott – mastering
• Nancy Donald – design
• Phillip Dixon – photography

Studios

• Recorded at The Complex (Los Angeles, California); LeGonks West (West Hollywood, California); Sunset Sound (Hollywood, California); Monterey Sound Studios (Glendale, California).
• Mixed at Lion Share Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California); Sunset Sound.
• Mastered at Allen Zentz Mastering (San Clemente, California).

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