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Cameo: Word Up!

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Label: Atlanta Artists
Released: 1986.07.22
Time:
 34:46
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] Word Up! (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins) - 4:21
[2] Candy (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins) - 5:39
[3] Back and Forth (K.Kendrick/N.Leftenant/L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins) - 6:33
[4] Don't Be Lonely (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/K.Kendrick/W.Morris) - 5:19
[5] She's Mine (L.Blackmon/N.Leftenant/A.Matthews/R.Malloy) - 4:37
[6] Fast, Fierce & Funny (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/N.Leftenant) - 4:09
[7] You Can Have the World (L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/N.Leftenant) - 4:38

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Larry Blackmon - Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Producer
Tomi Jenkins - Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Nathan Leftenant - Backing Vocals

Charlie Singleton - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Aaron Mills - Bass Guitar
Michael Burnett - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Eric Rehl - Keyboards
Kenni Hairston - Keyboards
Kevin Kendrick - Keyboards
Merv De Peyer - Keyboards
Duduka Fonseca - Percussion
Giovanni Hidalgo - Percussion
Steve Thornton - Percussion
Melvin Wells - Saxophone, Backing Vocals
Michael Brecker - Saxophone
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Sammy Merendino - Drum Programming
Patrick Buchanon - Guitars
Peter Scherer - Synclavier Programming
Willie Morris - Backing Vocals
Stanley Clarke - Bass

Uptown Horns:
Crispin Cioe - Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Robert Funk - Trombone
Arno Hecht - Tenor Saxophone
Paul Litteral - Trumpet
Bernard Wright - Keyboards

Dave Ogrin - Engineer, Mixing
Eric Calvi - Engineer, Mixing
Matthew Kasha - Engineer, Mixing
J. Rodriguez - Engineer
Michel Sauvage - Engineer
Jerry Soloman - Engineer
Larry Alexander - Engineer
Matthew Casha - Engineer
Alan Meyerson - Mixing
Jose Rodriquez - Mastering
Henry Falco - Assistant Engineer
David Krebs - Direction
Steve Leber - Direction
Louis Levin - Direction
Bill Levy - Art Direction
Paula Scher - Design
Toyce Anderson - Stylist

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Recorded between 1985-1986 at Quad Recording Studio, Counter Point Studio, Power Station Studio, Sound Ideas Studio (all in New York City). Mixed at Quad City Recording Studios, N.Y. City. Mastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y. City.

Tracks [1-3,6-7] published by All Seeing Eye Music-Better Days Music.
Tracks [4,5] published by All Seeing Eye Music-Better Days Music-Better Nights Music.

Word Up! is an album by the funk/R&B group Cameo released in 1986. The record made Cameo one of the most successful bands of that decade.



Many of the funk bands that were big in the 1970s had a hard time surviving in the 1980s, especially if they were horn bands. Having a killer horn section was something that a lot of 1970s funk outfits prided themselves on, and it was no fun when, in the 1980s, they were told that their horns sound dated and that urban contemporary audiences only wanted to hear synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. But Cameo, unlike many funk bands that emerged in the late '70s, really thrived in the 1980s. Lead singer/producer Larry Blackmon insisted on changing with the times, and he did so by making Cameo more high-tech and seeing to it that albums like 1985's Single Life and 1986's Word Up! were relevant to the urban contemporary and hip-hop scenes. Nonetheless, Cameo still sounded like Cameo; Word Up!, in fact, is one of its best albums. The wildly infectious title song was a major hit, and Cameo is equally captivating on other funk treasures that include "Fast, Fierce and Funny," "Back and Forth," and "Candy." To the young urban contemporary and hip-hop fans who bought Word Up! in 1986, Cameo's funk was fresh and cutting edge; and at the same time, slightly older fans that Cameo had won over in the late '70s were still buying its records. Both commercially and creatively, Word Up! was a major triumph for Cameo.

Alex Henderson - All Music Guide
 

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