Comin' at Ya! (album)

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Comin' At Ya!
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Studio album by
Released1976
Recorded1976 at Different Fur Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre Soul
Label Mercury
Producer Patrick Gleeson
Coke Escovedo chronology
Coke
(1975)
Comin' At Ya!
(1976)
Disco Fantasy
(1977)
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Comin' At Ya! is the second album by the former Santana and Azteca band member Coke Escovedo. It was produced by Patrick Gleeson and released in 1976.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Diamond Dust / Vida" - (Brian Holland, Coke Escovedo) - 3:03
  2. "Something So Simple" - (Mark Phillips, Glenn Symmonds) - 2:34
  3. "Stay With Me" - (José Feliciano) - 3:16
  4. "Hangin' On" - (Mark Phillips) - 3:18
  5. "Somebody's Callin'" - (Glenn Symmonds) - 3:05
  6. "The Breeze and I" - (Al Stillman, Ernesto Lecuona) - 1:42
  7. "Runaway" - (Errol Knowles) - 2:44
  8. "I Wouldn't Change a Thing" - (Johnny Bristol) - 4:31
  9. "Backseat" - (Dewayne Sweet, Glenn Symmonds) - 3:39
  10. "Everything is Coming Our Way" - (Carlos Santana) - 3:59
  11. "Fried Neck Bones and Home Fries" - (Melvin Latise, William Correa) - 2:15

Personnel

Charts

Album

ChartPosition
Billboard Top LPs 190
Billboard Top Soul LPs 37

Sampling

A sample of about five seconds of the electric guitar on "Hangin' On" is used prominently on the song "Fastlane" by King Geedorah (MF Doom). [2]

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References

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r106404/review
  2. "King Geedorah feat. Kurious's 'Fastlane' sample of Coke Escovedo's 'Hangin' On'". WhoSampled . Retrieved October 15, 2021.