Sweat (Kool & the Gang album)
1989 studio album by Kool & the Gang
Sweat Released June 1989 Recorded September 1988 – March 1989 Genre
Length 52 :37 Label Mercury Producer
"Raindrops" Released: 1989
"Never Give Up" Released: 1989
Sweat is the eighteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang , released in 1989 following a three-year gap between albums. James "J.T." Taylor , Khalis Bayyan and Robert "Spike" Mickens had departed, and this album showed a refocused band.
Singles
Both "Raindrops " (peak #27) and "Never Give Up" (peak #74) on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart.[1]
Critical reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [2]
Ron Wynn of AllMusic called the album "a completely faceless, aimless record ... probably the worst album of their career".[2] Hugh Wyatt of the New York Daily News called Sweat "one of the year's best recordings".[3]
Track listing
Side one Title Writer(s) 1. "I Sweat" Bayyan 4:22 2. "This Is What a Love Can Do" Bokowski, Varner 4:13 3. "Never Give Up" Bellochio, Habeeb 4:42 4. "You Got My Heart on Fire" Haynes, Williams 6:29 5. "Someday" Bayyan, Martin 4:58
Side two Title Writer(s) 1. "Raindrops" Booker 3:50 2. "In Your Company" Booker 5:53 3. "I'll Follow You Anywhere" Gazeley, Scher 5:37 4. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" Booker 3:55 5. "How Can I Get Close to You" Brown, Thomas 4:22 6. "You Are the Meaning of Friend" Block, Smith 5:06
Personnel
Robert "Kool" Bell – bass
Ronald "Khalis" Bell – tenor saxophone, keyboards
Claydes Charles Smith – guitar
Gary Brown – vocals
Sennie "Skip" Martin – vocals, trumpet, percussion (lead on 3–9, 11)
Odeen Mays – vocals, keyboards (lead on 1, 2, 4, 7, 10)
Larry Gittens – trumpet, vocals, keyboards
Michael Ray – trumpet
Clifford Adams – trombone, vocals
George Brown – keyboards
Robert "Robbie G" Goble – drums
Charts
References
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