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Album · 1986

Filed under Funk
By CAMEO

Tracklist

A1 Word Up 4:15
A2 Candy 5:32
A3 Back And Forth 6:30
B1 Don't Be Lonely 5:12
B2 She's Mine 4:34
B3 Fast, Fierce & Funny 4:07
B4 You Can Have The World 4:36

Line-up/Musicians

Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Crispin Cloe
Backing Vocals, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Lead Vocals – Larry Blackmon
Backing Vocals – Nathan Leftenant, Willie Morris
Backing Vocals, Bass, Guitar – Michael Burnett
Backing Vocals, Guitar – Charlie Singleton
Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals – Tomi Jenkins
Backing Vocals, Saxophone – Melvin Wells
Bass – Aaron Mills
Drum Programming – Sammy Merendino
Guitar – Patrick Buchanon
Keyboards – Bernard Wright, Eric Rehl, Kenni Hairston, Kevin Kendrick, Merv DePeyer
Percussion – Duduka Fonseca , Giovanni Hidalgo
Saxophone – Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker
Tenor Saxophone – Arno Hecht
Trombone – Robert Funk
Trumpet – Paul Litteral

About this release

Atlanta Artists ‎– 830 265-1 M-1 (US)

Recorded at:
Quad City Recording Studios, N.Y. City
Counter Point Studio, N.Y. City
Power Station Studio, N.Y. City
Sounds Ideas Studio, N.Y. City

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Funk has an interesting evolution to me. The 50s/60s had R&B that would go on to become a more repetitive and jam band oriented genre artists like JAMES BROWN and WAR are some examples but the 70s saw fit to evolve the genre into having synths, and larger horn sections, (PARLIAMENT being the prime example) however the 80s threw horns away, it was all about synths and drum machines and the synth funk of the 80s even started to incorporate hip hop, at its infancy. PRINCE, ZAPP and CAMEO are the big three of the 80s funk scene imo although some might disagree, this band can get very 80s at times but I honestly love it, every track here is just fun, the track "She's Mine" is a fun, funky 80s hip hop track and do I even need to mention the track "Candy"? Overall this album is a blast and has always been a personal favorite of mine, I wish I could go into greater detail about this album but tbh I don't know how to sum it up other then "It's good, it's fun" sorry if this is a lackluster review lol

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