Release Date: 01 July 2022
Label: Cherry Red Ada / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5013929083332
Genres: R&B
Description
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2016
THE 10-PIECE GROUP (TYRONE WILLIAMS, RICARDO WILLIAMS, LECOY BRYANT, AGNES KELLY, JAMES DRUMGOLE, LARRY MARSHALL, KEVIN DOUGLAS, GREGORY MCCOY, EMMANUEL REDDING AND RODNEY PHELPS) INITIALLY FORMED IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, SIGNED TO ATLANTIC’S COTILLION IMPRINT IN 1976 AND ENJOYED INITIAL R&B SUCCESS VIA THEIR FIRST THREE ALBUMS. WITH THE RELEASE OF THE KEY CUT ‘FIRECRACKER’ (SAMPLED BY 2 LIVE CREW IN 1989 ON THEIR GLOBAL HIT, ‘ME SO HORNY’) ON ‘IN THE PUREST FORM’, MASS PRODUCTION ACHIEVED THEIR 1ST US R&B TOP 5 SINGLE WHILE THE LP BECAME THEIR BEST SELLING SET, SPURRED ON BY THE GROOVE CLASSIC ‘CAN’T YOU SEE I’M FIRED UP’.
1980’S ‘MASSTERPIECE’ BECAME A TOP 30 US CHARTED LP, THANKS TO TRACKS LIKE THE POPULAR INSTRUMENTAL ‘SHANTE’ AND THE FUNKY ‘FOREVER’ ALONGSIDE THE MELLOW BALLAD ‘ANGEL’.
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
Mass Production
Mass Production
Mass Production
