Slick (album)

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Slick
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1977
Recorded1975–1976
StudioThe Sound Suite & United Sound Systems, Detroit
Genre Soul
Label Tamla Records
Producer Leonard Caston
Eddie Kendricks chronology
Goin' Up in Smoke
(1976)
Slick
(1977)
Vintage '78
(1978)
Singles from Slick
  1. "Intimate Friends"
    Released: December 22, 1977
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Slick is the ninth album by former Temptations vocalist Eddie Kendricks, released in August 1977 on the Tamla imprint of Motown Records. It reached No. 47 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Something Shady (Is Going On)" (Leonard Caston Jr., Ronn Matlock) 5:07
  2. "Baby" (Leonard Caston Jr., Terri McFaddin) 3:52
  3. "I Want to Live My Life with You" (Diane Goosby, Leonard Caston Jr.) 3:42
  4. "You Got It" (Leonard Caston Jr., Terri McFaddin) 3:25
  5. "Intimate Friends" (Garry Glenn) 5:49
  6. "Diamond Girl" (Jim Seals, Dash Crofts) 4:25
  7. "Then Came You" (Diane Goosby, Leonard Caston Jr.) 7:31
  8. "I'll Have to Let You Go" (Kathy Wakefield, Leonard Caston Jr.) 4:34
  9. "California Woman" (Kathy Wakefield, Leonard Caston Jr.) 3:31

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Billboard Top Soul Albums [2] 47

Singles

YearSingleChart positions [3]
US
R&B
1978"Intimate Friends"24

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