Dinner Music (Rotary Connection album)

Dinner Music
Studio album by Rotary Connection
Released	1970 (1970)
Recorded	November 1969
Studio	Ter-Mar, Chicago, Illinois, US
Genre	Psychedelic soul
Length	34:43
Language	English
Label	Cadet
Producer	Marshall Chess Charles Stepney
Rotary Connection chronology
Songs (1969) Dinner Music (1970) Hey, Love (1971)

Dinner Music is a 1970 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released by Cadet Records.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 2.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Andy Kellman writing that "the only accurate prediction one could have made before going into a Rotary Connection record was that it would be unpredictable" and continued that this is "the least-uniform Rotary Connection record", which "comes off like a series of tangents with little in the way of cohesion". ^[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 recommended this album for having "topnotch performances" and specifically praised Minnie Riperton's vocals. ^[3]

"Want You to Know" peaked at 96 on the Billboard Hot 100. ^[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Jon Stocklin unless otherwise stated. No writing credits are given for tracks 1, 4, 12, or 14.

Side One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pointillism"	N/A	0:20
2.	"We Will Be Free"	Bobby Simms, Stocklin	3:00
3.	"Living Alone"		2:53
4.	"Lektricks #1"	N/A	0:45
5.	"Country Things"		3:04
6.	"Quartet"	Brian Heller	0:58
7.	"May Our Amens Be True"	Sidney Barnes, Stocklin	3:00
8.	"Stormy Monday Blues"	Robert Crowder, Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines	3:57

Side Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Love Me Now"	Cash McCall	2:45
10.	"Lonely Summer"	Simms	2:40
11.	"Amuse"		4:00
12.	"Lektricks #2"	N/A	0:41
13.	"Merry Prankster"		2:33
14.	"Pump Effect"	N/A	0:05
15.	"Want You to Know"		3:02
Total length:			34:43

Personnel

Rotary Connection

• Mitch Aliotta – bass vocals
• Sidney Barnes – vocals
• Tom Donlinger – drums
• Judy Hauff – vocals
• Minnie Riperton  – vocals
• Bobby Simms – guitar
• Charles Stepney  – arrangement, production

Additional personnel

• Robb Baker – liner notes
• Stu Black – engineering
• Marshall Chess  – production
• Dick Fowler – art direction
• Mel Kasper – photography
• Dick LaPalm – supervision

See also

• List of 1970 albums

References

1. Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Dinner Music". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved December 10, 2023.
2. Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Aladdin/Dinner Music". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved December 9, 2023.
3. "Album Reviews". Pop. Billboard . Vol. 82, no. 30. July 25, 1970. p. 46. ISSN   0006-2510.
4. "Rotary Connection | Awards". AllMusic . RhythmOne. n.d. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2023.

External links

• Dinner Music at Discogs (list of releases)
• Dinner Music at MusicBrainz (list of releases)