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Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan (1975) [1990, Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 31 Oct 2018 18:57:44

"Rufus featuring Chaka Khan" is the Gold-selling 4th studio album by funk band Rufus with singer Chaka Khan, released on the ABC Records label in 1975. It remained atop the R&B album chart for six consecutive weeks. This record was the band's first album to top Billboard's R&B Albums chart and also reached #7 on Pop. The album included the singles "Sweet Thing", their second #1 hit on the R&B Singles chart and also #5 hit on Pop, "Dance Wit Me" (US R&B #5, US Pop #39) and the Bee Gees cover "Jive Talkin'" (US R&B #35). According to Billboard Magazine, "Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan" was the best selling R&B album of 1976 on the Year-End Charts.

~Wikipedia

One of the most talented bands of the '70s, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan is the groups' fourth release in close to three years. Although this effort doesn't have the epiphanies of 1974's Rufusized, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan has them becoming more established as one of the best bands in R&B and pop. The first track, Gavin Christopher's "Fool's Paradise" displays Khan's skill at screaming notes and making complex ideas sound simple, and vice versa. That art is put to work throughout Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan. "Everybody's Got an Aura" surely could be dismissed as babble but Khan gives the sentiments a ring of truth even as she shouts, "Everybody's got karma!" The lilting yet propulsive "Circle" has great bass work from Bobby Watson as Khan sings likeable and spacy lines, the best being, "My love is like a zero/It is nothing and everything." The albums biggest track, the smoldering "Sweet Thing," has Tony Maiden's gentle guitar and Kevin Murphy's economical electric piano chords. The song is arguably the group's best as Khan's bittersweet vocal provided a standard many singers have attempted to approximate to no avail. The party starters "Have a Good Time" and "Dance Wit Me" both tread familiar ground and pale in comparison to the classic "Once You Get Started." The last track, a cover of "Jive Talking," is inexplicably slowed to a crawl, therefore, diminishing its appeal. Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan perfectly captures their unconventional sound and features Tower of Power on horns and Clare Fischer's string arrangements. This album is one of their best and is recommended.

~Review by Jason Elias

Release of the album: 1975, November, 18 [LP ABC Records, Cat.# ABCD-909, USA]
Release of this CD: 1990, August, 28 [CD MCA Records (USA), Cat.# MCAD-31373 / UPC: 076743137327]
℗© 1975 MCA Records Inc.
Manufactured in U.S.A. for MCA Records Inc.

Credits:

Arranged By [Horns] – Greg Adams
Arranged By [Strings] – Claire Fischer
Bass – Bobby Watson
Design – Bill Naegel
Directed By [Production] – Robert Ellis
Drums – Andre Fischer
Engineer – Austin Godsey
Engineer [Assistant] – Doug Rider, John Calder, Peter Chaikin
Guitar – Tony Maiden
Horns – Tower Of Power Horn Section
Illustration – Bill Imhoff
Keyboards – Kevin Murphy
Photography By – Burnell Caldwell, Rachelle L. James, Rick Giacalone, Bob Ellis
Producer – Rufus
Producer [Creative Assistance] – Gavin Christopher
Producer [Production Direction] – Bruce Wayne
Vocals – Bobby Watson, Chaka Khan, Tony Maiden

Tracklist:

01. Fool's Paradise (04:43)
(Gavin Christopher)
02. Have A Good Time (03:22)
(avin Christopher, Tony Maiden)
03. Ooh I Like Your Loving (03:42)
(Bobby Watson, Chaka Khan, Tony Maiden)
04. Everybody Has An Aura (03:49)
(Gordon DeWitty)
05. Circles (03:59)
(Tony Dulaine)
06. Sweet Thing (03:22)
(Chaka Khan, Tony Maiden)
07. Dance Wit Me (04:00)
(Gavin Christopher)
08. Little Boy Blue (05:07)
(J. Farris)
09. On Time (03:35)
(Andre Fischer, Bobby Watson, Chaka Khan, Kevin Murphy, Tony Maiden)
10. Jive Talkin' (03:37)
(Barry Gibb - Robin Gibb - Maurice Gibb)

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Official DR value: DR14

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See also:

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Rufus:
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan ‎- Rags To Rufus (1974) [1994, Reissue]
Rufus with Chaka Khan - Camouf...anese Paper Sleeve Mini-LP CD]

Chaka Khan solo:
Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan (1982) [1995, Japan]
Chaka Khan - Destiny (1986)
Chaka Khan - Epiphany: The Bes..., Vol. 1 (1996) [Japan] {HDCD}
Chaka Khan - Dance Classics Of Chaka Khan (1999) [Japan]
Chaka Khan - Original Album Series: 1978-1984 [5CD Box Set] (2010)

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