| Aladdin | ||||
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| Released | October 1968 | |||
| Recorded | August 1968 | |||
| Studio | Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, US | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic soul | |||
| Length | 42:28 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Cadet | |||
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Aladdin is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Andy Kellman writing this album "ushered in a bigger and bolder Rotary Connection" with music that is "more streamlined and less scatterbrained without shedding the limitless approach that made its predecessor such an intrepid undertaking". [1] Kellman also reviewed a single-CD compilation of Aladdin and Dinner Music , also rating it three stars, noting that this is the only way to get this music on CD, but critiquing that these are the band's two weakest albums. [2] In a review for retailers, Billboard called this "another fine swinging album" and spotlighted several tracks as particularly strong [3] and the magazine also recommended the "Paper Castle" single as being "loaded... with sales appeal". [4]
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Aladdin peaked at 176 on the Billboard 200. [5]
Rotary Connection was an American psychedelic soul band, formed in Chicago in 1966.
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