Aladdin (Rotary Connection album)

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Aladdin
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Studio album by
Rotary Connection
ReleasedOctober 1968 (1968-10)
RecordedAugust 1968
StudioTer Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, US
Genre Psychedelic soul
Length42:28
LanguageEnglish
Label Cadet
Producer
Rotary Connection chronology
Rotary Connection
(1967)		Aladdin
(1968)		 Peace
(1968)

Aladdin is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records

Contents

Reception

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]

Track listing

  1. "Life Could" (Bobby Simms) – 4:10
  2. "Teach Me How to Fly" (Sidney Barnes) – 3:20
  3. "V.I.P." (Simms) – 3:04
  4. "Let Them Talk" (Simms) – 4:25
  5. "I Took a Ride (Caravan)" (Ando) – 6:06
  6. "Aladdin" (Steven William Duboff and Artie Kornfeld) – 4:25
  7. "Magical World" (Barnes) – 4:23
  8. "I Must Be There" (Keith Anderson and Simms) – 3:34
  9. "I Feel Sorry" (Mitch Aliotta) – 4:10
  10. "Paper Castle" (Maurice Dollison) – 4:17

Personnel

Rotary Connection

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Aladdin peaked at 176 on the Billboard 200. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Aladdin". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  2. ↑ Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Aladdin/Dinner Music". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Album Reviews". Pop. Billboard . Vol. 80, no. 42. October 19, 1968. p. 22. ISSN   0006-2510.
  4. ↑ "Spotlight Singles". Special Merit Spotlight. Billboard . Vol. 80, no. 40. October 5, 1968. p. 61. ISSN   0006-2510.
  5. ↑ "Rotary Connection | Awards". AllMusic . RhythmOne. n.d. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
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