What a Woman Needs is the eleventh studio album by American singer Melba Moore. It was released by EMI America Records on October 12, 1981. Her debut project with the label, it reached number 46 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Moore wrote six of the eight songs.[1]
^Jet - 3 Jan 1983 - Page 64: Melba Moore Stakes Claim To Fame As Recording Star - It's hard to imagine that being immensely successful on Broadway would prove to be a stumbling block for someone venturing into the recording industry. But that was the case for Melba Moore who starred in such Broadway productions as Hair, Purlie and Timbuktu. "Finding myself as a recording star was a little hard at first, ... album and six of eight on What A Woman Needs."
