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Cameo: Secret Omen

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Label: Chocolate City Records
Released: 1979.06.25
Time:
 37:43
Category: R&B, Funk
Producer(s): Larry Blackmon
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Media type: CD
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Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Energy (L.Blackmon) - 4:24
[2] I Just Want to Be (L.Blackmon/G.Johnson) - 5:19
[3] Find My Way (J.Melfi) - 9:05
[4] Macho (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/N.Leftenant) - 5:03
[5] The Rock (L.Blackmon) - 3:57
[6] Sparkle (L.Blackmon/A.Lockett) - 4:53
[7] New York (L.Blackmon/A.Lockett/A.Mills) - 5:02

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Larry Blackmon - Lead Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Timbales, Producer, Mixing
Gregory "Doc" Johnson - Keyboards, Piano, Vocals
Gary Dow - Bass Guitar
Damon Mendes - Drums, Percussion
Anthony Lockett - Lead Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Rhythm Guitar
Eric Durham - Guitar
Randy Stern - Keyboards
Arnett Leftenant - Saxophone
Nathan Leftenant - Trumpet
Arthur Young - Trumpet
Carl Harleston - Trombone
Seldon Powell - Flute
George Marge - Flute
Angel Allende - Conga
Tomi Jenkins - Vocals
Wayne Cooper - Vocals

Fred Wells - Guitar
Aaron Mills - Backing Vocals, Bass, Percussion
Irving Spice's Strings - Strings
Sammy Lowe - Arrangement (Horns, Strings)

Nina Rhodes - Engineer
Steve Jerome - Engineer
Bill Vermillion - Mixing
Jack Skinner - Mastering
Edward Beckett - Art Direction, Design
Carl Ramsey - Illustration
Len Kaltman - Photography
Jan Ruffle - Album Coordination
Wendy Jaross - Album Coordination

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1979 LP Chocolate City - CCLP 2008

Recorded at: H&L Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Mixed at: Bee Jay Studios, Orlando, Florida.
Mastered at: Sterling Sound, New York.

Special thanks to all our friends at Casablanca, Sandy Ross, Steve Ellis, Wendy Jaross, Jan Ruffle, Kathleen Karter, Gwen Franklin, Yogi, our phenomenal crew and all the other unnamed people and companies who keep our buses and trucks rolling across the country and getting us to the gigs on time.

℗ © 1979 Chocolate City Records, Inc.
Manufactured and distributed by Casablanca Record and FilmWorks, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046.

Secret Omen is the fourth album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1979.



Cameo never recorded a bad album, but it did record some uneven ones. One such LP was 1978's Ugly Ego, which was generally decent but fell short of the excellence of Cameo's superb debut album, Cardiac Arrest. But if Ugly Ego led some people to believe that Cameo might be slipping, the band's fourth album, Secret Omen, put that idea to rest. Released in 1979, Secret Omen is among Cameo's most essential releases. Everything on this album is a winner; anyone who appreciates sweaty, gutsy, horn-powered funk would have a hard time not loving "I Just Want to Be" (a major hit) and equally gritty gems like "New York," "Macho," and "The Rock." Meanwhile, a remake of "Find My Way" (previously heard on 1977's Cardiac Arrest) is even more disco-minded than the original version. Disco was never Cameo's specialty, but because disco was so huge in 1979, it made sense to revisit "Find My Way." And although "Find My Way" is atypical of Cameo on the whole, it's still a great song. Equally impressive is the hit soul ballad "Sparkle"; even though Larry Blackmon and friends are best known for up-tempo songs, they recorded their share of memorable ballads in the 1970s and 1980s. Secret Omen is recommended to anyone with even a casual interest in late-'70s funk.

Alex Henderson - All Music Guide
 

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