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Sweet Passion | ||||
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Released | May 19, 1977 | |||
Recorded | 1976–1977 | |||
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Length | 45:30 | |||
Label | Atlantic (#19102) | |||
Producer | Aretha Franklin, Lamont Dozier, Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager | |||
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Sweet Passion is the twenty-third studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was released on May 19, 1977, by Atlantic Records. Following Franklin's Gold-certified 1976 soundtrack album, Sparkle , she paired up with Motown producer Lamont Dozier to produce Sweet Passion. It was, however, a commercial and critical failure.
The album's lead single, "Break It To Me Gently", topped the Billboard R&B chart but peaked at No. 85 on the Hot 100 and dropped off the chart after two weeks.
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Christgau's Record Guide | C+ [2] |
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The Bay State Banner noted that "her voice seems to free itself, even during the most stilted and contrived show tunes, stronger and lots weightier than Natalie Cole's cheery mimicry." [4]