Keep On Moving Straight Ahead

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Keep On Moving Straight Ahead
Lakeside - keep on covering straight ahead.jpg
Studio album by
Released1981
StudioKendun Recorders (Burbank, California)
Genre Funk
Boogie
Soul
Label SOLAR Records (BXL1-3974)
Producer Lakeside
Lakeside chronology
Fantastic Voyage
(1980)
Keep On Moving Straight Ahead
(1981)
Your Wish Is My Command
(1982)

Keep On Moving Straight Ahead is the fifth album by American funk band Lakeside. Released in 1981 on the SOLAR Records label, it contains songs left over from sessions for their previous albums that were recorded while SOLAR was distributed by RCA Records (SOLAR switched distribution from RCA to Elektra Records in 1981). RCA also released similar albums of left over tracks in 1981 for other artists on the SOLAR label. [1]

Contents

The album entered the Billboard pop and R&B charts in 1981. [2]

Track listing

Side A

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Keep On Moving Straight Ahead"Stephen Shockley4:39
2."It's You"Otis Stokes5:02
3."Be My Lady"Stephen Shockley6:13
4."It's Got to Be Love"Mark Adam Wood, Jr.3:51

Side B

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."We Want You (on the Floor)"Fred Lewis6:30
2."Back Together Again"Otis Stokes4:34
3."Anything for You"Stephen Shockley5:21
4."All for You"Norman Beavers, Thomas Shelby, Tiemeyer McCain3:49

Personnel

Lakeside

Additional musicians

Production

Chart performance

Charts (1981)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top LPs [3] 109
U.S. Soul LPs [3] 32

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References

  1. "Lakeside - Keep On Moving Straight Ahead". Discogs. 1981. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums, 1955-1992: compiled from Billboard's pop album charts, 1955-1992. California, U.S.: Record Research Inc., 1993 (originally) the University of California. p. 405. ISBN   0-89820-093-8.
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