Where the Happy People Go

Where the Happy People Go
Studio album by the Trammps
Released	April 15, 1976
Studio	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre	Disco soul
Length	40:42
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Ronnie Baker Norman Harris Earl Young T.G. Conway Bruce Gray Allan Felder Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey
The Trammps chronology
The Legendary Zing Album (1975) Where the Happy People Go (1976) Disco Inferno (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+ [2]

Where the Happy People Go is the third studio album by American soul-disco group the Trammps, released in 1976 through Atlantic Records.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 13 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 50 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "That's Where the Happy People Go", which peaked at No. 12 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and "Disco Party", which charted at No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Soul Searchin' Time"	Leroy Green, Norman Harris	6:03
2.	"That's Where the Happy People Go"	Ronnie Baker	7:50
3.	"Can We Come Together"	T.G. Conway, Bruce Gray, Allan Felder	5:33

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Disco Party"	T.G. Conway, Bruce Gray	8:11
5.	"Ninety-Nine and a Half"	Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd	5:07
6.	"Hooked for Life"	Bunny Sigler, Norman Harris, Allan Felder	4:42
7.	"Love Is a Funky Thing"	Ronnie Baker	3:16

Personnel

The Trammps

• Jimmy Ellis – lead vocal
• Stanley Wade – vocal, bass
• Harold Wade – vocal
• Earl Young – vocal, drums
• Robert Upchurch – vocal

Additional personnel

• Bobby Eli, Norman Harris – guitar
• Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey – keyboards
• Bruce Gray – Grand piano
• T.G. Conway – bass keyboards
• Ronnie Baker, Michael Foreman – bass
• Larry Washington – congas

Charts

Album

Chart (1976)	Peaks [3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	50
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	13

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US [3]	US R&B [3]	US Dan [3]
1975	"Hooked for Life"	—	70	6
1976	"That's Where the Happy People Go"	27	12	1
	"Disco Party"	—	—	1
	"Soul Searchin' Time"	—	67	—
	"Ninety-Nine and a Half"	105	76	8

References

1. Lytle, Craig. "Where the Happy People Go review". AllMusic . Retrieved May 8, 2015.
2. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 16, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
3. "US Charts > The Trammps". Billboard . Retrieved May 25, 2017.

External links

• Where the Happy People Go at Discogs (list of releases)