No Show (Kool & the Gang song)

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"No Show"
Single by Kool & the Gang
from the album The Hits Reloaded
Released2005
Genre Funk
Label Edel
Songwriter(s) Ronald Nathan Bell, Robert Earl Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, Robert Mickens, J.T. Taylor, George Melvin Brown, Eumir Deodato
Producer(s) Eumir Deodato, Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang singles chronology
"Hollywood Swinging (with Jamiroquai)"
(2005)		"No Show"
(2005)		"Steppin' into Love"
(2006)

"No Show" is a song recorded by R&B/Funk band Kool & the Gang for their 1981 studio album Something Special . [1] A cover of the tune, featuring Blackstreet, appeared on the band's 2004 studio album The Hits Reloaded via Edel Records. Released as a single, this said rendition reached No. 36 on the US Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart. [2] [3]

Contents

Compendium

No Show was produced by Eumir Deodato and Kool & the Gang. The song was also composed by George Brown, J.T. Taylor and Ronald Bell. [1]

Critical reception

Craig Lytle of Allmusic called No Show "a sorrowful account of a man left standing in the rain, waiting for the love that never showed." [4] Marc D. Allan of the Boston Globe also described the tune as a "sweet, soft ballad." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kool & the Gang - No Show. Mercury Records. 1981.
  2. ↑ "Kool & the Gang - Adult R&B Songs". Billboard . Retrieved 2023-08-02.
  3. ↑ Kool & The Gang feat. Blackstreet - No Show. Edel Records. 2005.
  4. ↑ Lytle, Craig. Kool and the Gang: Something Special > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Allan, Marc D (22 October 1981). "REVIEWS / RECORDS; KOOL AND THE GANG; SOMETHING SPECIAL; DE-LITE". Boston Globe. ProQuest   294105801.
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