Love Trippin'

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Love Trippin'
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Studio album by
the Spinners
ReleasedMay 27, 1980 (1980-05-27)
Studio Mediasound, New York City, New York, US
Genre Soul [1]
Length39:00
LanguageEnglish
Label Atlantic
Producer Michael Zager
The Spinners chronology
Dancin' and Lovin'
(1979)		Love Trippin'
(1980)		 Labor of Love
(1981)

Love Trippin' is a 1980 studio album from rhythm and blues vocal group the Spinners, released on Atlantic Records. This album comes after a shake-up in the band's sound, shifting from their Philly soul roots and a series of successful albums produced by Thom Bell [2] to a disco sound [3] recorded with several New York-based jazz musicians on 1979's Dancin' and Lovin' . That album's producer Michael Zager [4] returned for this release which was a modest commercial and critical success and brought the musicians back to a more familiar soul sound.

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Reception

A review in Orange Coast by Keith Tuber praised the album for returning to the band's roots and avoiding "ill-fated" disco. [5] The editors of AllMusic scored this release three out of five stars, with reviewer Jason Ankeny opining that Zager's production was appropriate to bring the group's sound into the 1980s and they were wise to not lean too heavily into disco at the end of that genre's commercial success, but the music is mediocre, featuring "duds" and that this release began a decline in the band's quality in the coming decade. [1] In a year-end round-up for Billboard , the Spinners were 22nd in Number One Soul Album Artists for both Dancin' and Lovin' and Love Trippin'. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Love Trippin'" (Deniece Williams and Michael Zager) – 4:11
  2. "Heavy on the Sunshine" (Denny Henson) – 3:39
  3. "Medley: "Cupid"/"I've Loved You for a Long Time" (Sam Cooke / Michael Zager) – 5:35
  4. "I Just Want to Be with You" (Alvin Fields and Michael Zager) – 3:29
  5. "Streetwise" (Victor Davis and Phil Vear) – 3:41
  6. "I Just Want to Fall in Love" (William Hatcher, Danny Omar, and Rickie Ross) – 3:52
  7. "Now That You're Mine Again" (Michael Zager) – 4:27
  8. "Split Decision" (Doug James, Chip Orton, and Eltesa Weathersby) – 3:32
  9. "I'm Takin' You Back" (Larry LaFalce, Ed Fox, and Alan Roy Scott) – 3:18
  10. "Pipedream" (Ed Fox and Alan Roy Scott) – 3:16

Personnel

The Spinners

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Chart performance

Love Trippin' reached 16 on the R&B chart and peaked at 53 on the Billboard 200, a slight dip from their last album, but far ahead of their previous two. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. "The Spinners – Love Trippin'". AllMusic . Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  2. ↑ Burgess, A. Ace (March 25, 1976). "The Spinners Celebrate 20th Anniversary". Jet . Vol. XLIX, no. 26. Johnson Publishing, Company, Inc. p. 60. ISSN   0021-5996.
  3. ↑ Grein, Paul (November 17, 1979). "Spinners Spinning to Belated Dance Beat on New LP". Talent. Billboard . Vol. 91, no. 46. pp. 34, 40. ISSN   0006-2510.
  4. ↑ Williams, Jean (July 7, 1979). "Spinners to Try a New LP Concept". Soul Sauce. Billboard . Vol. 91, no. 26. p. 34. ISSN   0006-2510.
  5. ↑ Tuber, Keith (August 1980). "Music". Viewpoint. Orange Coast . Vol. 6, no. 8. Emmis Communications. p. 83. ISSN   0279-0483.
  6. ↑ Grein, Paul (December 20, 1980). "Billboard's 1980 Talent in Action". Billboard . Vol. 92, no. 51. pp. TA-15, TA-34. ISSN   0006-2510.
  7. ↑ "US Albums Charts > The Spinners". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
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