Bloodline (LeVert album)

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Bloodline
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Studio album by
LeVert
ReleasedAugust 12, 1986
Recorded1986
Studio
  • Dawnbreaker Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • Sigma Sound, Sound Palace and Unique Recording Studios (New York City, New York)
  • Palace Recording Studios and Kapperhead Productions, Inc. (Canton, Ohio)
Genre R&B
Length42:22
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Keg Johnson & Wilmer Raglin
James Mtume
Eddie Levert, Gerald LeVert & Marc Gordon
LeVert chronology
I Get Hot
(1985)		Bloodline
(1986)		 The Big Throwdown
(1987)
Singles from Bloodline
  1. "(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind"
    Released: 1986
  2. "Let's Go Out Tonight"
    Released: 1986
  3. "Fascination"
    Released: 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Bloodline is the second album by the R&B group LeVert, released in 1986. [4] It was their first album for Atlantic Records. [2]

Contents

The album reached number eight on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times wrote that "this trio is fully committed to melody and feeling, making for an effective update of the sweet sounds associated with the street harmonizing the O'Jays themselves started with more than 25 years ago." [5]

Track listing

  1. "(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind" (Gerald LeVert, Marc Gordon) - 5:54
  2. "Fascination" (Gerald LeVert, Marc Gordon, James Mtume) - 4:29
  3. "Pose" (Wilmer Raglin, Jr., William F. Zimmermann) - 6:12
  4. "I Start You Up, You Turn Me On" (James Mtume) - 4:31
  5. "Kiss and Make Up" (Gerald LeVert, Marc Gordon) - 4:45
  6. "Let's Go Out Tonight" (Gerald LeVert) - 5:17
  7. "Grip" (Gerald LeVert) - 5:57
  8. "Looking for Love" (Gerald LeVert, Marc Gordon) - 5:17

Personnel

LeVert

Additional Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums [6] 192
Billboard Top Soul Albums [6] 8

Singles

YearSingleChart positions [7]
US
R&B
1986"(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind"1
"Let's Go Out Tonight"14
1987"Fascination"26

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References

  1. ↑ Wynn, Ron. LeVert: Bloodline > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 194.
  3. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 421.
  4. ↑ "LeVert | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ↑ Hochman, Steve (19 Oct 1986). "LEVERT: SOUL HEIRS". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 68.
  6. 1 2 "LeVert US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  7. ↑ "LeVert US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-09-29.


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