Do It All Night (album)

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Do It All Night
Curtis Mayfield - Do It All Night (Album Cover).jpg
Studio album by
Curtis Mayfield
ReleasedAugust 1978 [1]
Recorded Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles; Las Vegas Recording Center, Las Vegas; Curtom Studios, Chicago
Genre Soul, disco [2]
Length35:31
Label Curtom
Producer Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Never Say You Can't Survive
(1977)		Do It All Night
(1978)		 Heartbeat
(1979)

Do It All Night is an album by the American musician Curtis Mayfield, released in 1978. [2] "No Goodbyes" was released as a single. "You Are, You Are" was written by Mayfield for Linda Clifford; it appears on her 1978 LP, If My Friends Could See Me Now. The album peaked at No. 52 on Billboard's Top Black Albums chart. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Globe and Mail noted that "two ballads, 'Keep Me Loving You' and 'In Love, In Love, In Love', add meat to the good side and keep Mayfield's reputation intact as the silkiest of black high tenors." [6] The Bay State Banner , in 1978, deemed the album Mayfield's worst, writing: "Imagine this superb poet making music so dumb, so uninspired in its rhythms you didn't miss the libretto that wasn't there." [7] Rolling Stone opined that "Mayfield sounds distracted or simply confused, as if he'd started a song with something in mind, forgotten what it was, but kept going anyway." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Do It All Night" (Gil Askey, Curtis Mayfield) – 8:17
  2. "No Goodbyes" (Askey, Mayfield) – 7:40
  3. "Party, Party" (Askey, Mayfield) – 7:54
  4. "Keeps Me Loving You" (Mayfield) – 3:24
  5. "In Love, In Love, In Love" (Mayfield) – 4:20
  6. "You Are, You Are" (Mayfield) – 3:38

Personnel

Technical

References

  1. ↑ Short Eyes / Do It All Night (Booklet notes by Clive Anderson). Curtis Mayfield. USA: Licensemusic. 2009.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. 1 2 Phillips, Caryl (March 11, 1995). "A tribute to a silent prophet". The Guardian. p. 28.
  3. ↑ "Curtis Mayfield". Billboard. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
  4. ↑ Eder, Bruce. Do It All Night at AllMusic
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 221.
  6. ↑ McGrath, Paul (August 30, 1978). "Curtis Mayfield". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
  7. ↑ Freedberg, Mike (October 26, 1978). "Soul Dog". Bay State Banner. No. 3. p. 18.
  8. ↑ Tucker, Ken (October 5, 1978). "Rolling Stone : Curtis Mayfield: Do It All Night : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
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