Terry Lewis. Dick Griffey said of Leon at the time, "Aside from Quincy Jones, I think Leon is the hottest producer around. He's grown with SOLAR and has been exposed to other creative forces in putting together different kinds of songs and sounds. He's gotten a different kind of polish and sophistication." Mid- to late-80s By 1984, Leon met Krystol members Tina Scott and Roberta Stiger at a Hollywood burger stand and asked to audition them. They ended up singing backup vocals on several of his projects and he produced songs on their 1984 album Gettin' Ready and 1985's Talk Of The Town. He was involved with fewer hits due to the changing climate in R&B music. He did have some success with Glenn Jones' second album Finesse, and some tracks for The Whispers album So Good. Between 1984 and 1988 Leon would have moderate success with Five Star ("Another Weekend", "Rock My World"), Evelyn "Champagne" King ("Flirt," "Hold On to What You Got"), Stacy Lattisaw ("You Ain't Leavin'"), The Spinners, Howard Hewett ("I Commit to Love"), Krystol ("After the Dance Is Through)). In 1985, Leon joined the Motown-distributed label Conceited Records as the vice president of music and produced the label's first album. In 1989, Leon finally recorded a solo album for Motown Records, called simply Leon Sylvers III, but it failed to chart. Recent work In the '90s Leon would work with R&B New Jack Producer Teddy Riley on his group Blackstreet's debut album Blackstreet. Leon helped co-write Blackstreet's US Top 10 hit "Before I Let You Go". Leon would also work with Riley again this time helping write two songs on New Kids on the Block's Face the Music as well as the song "Love Online" on Guy's reunion album Guy III. Riley credited Leon for his ability to make lyrics work with a given melody, saying he was "probably the number one best." In 1992 Leon co-produced nine of the 10 songs on Double Action Theatre's self-titled debut on PolyGram. The album received mix reviews, with one critic writing, "the group gets caught up in its own hype, forgetting that before a singer can deliver a message, he first has to deliver a song." In 2009, Sylvers produced an album from N'dambi, Pink Elephant, which included songs written by Sylvers and his son, Leon Sylvers IV. In December 2010, Leon Sylvers III received a Grammy nomination