As Serious as a Heart-Attack

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As Serious As A Heart-Attack
Studio album by Melvin Van Peebles
Released	1971
Recorded	1971
Genre	Spoken word
Label	A&M
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Melvin Van Peebles chronology
Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) As Serious As A Heart-Attack (1974) What the....You Mean I Can't Sing?! (1974)

As Serious As A Heart-Attack is an album by Melvin Van Peebles. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in the 1973 film version of Van Peebles' musical Don't Play Us Cheap.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Countryside 1 1.2 Cityside 2 2 Information 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Engineers

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Countryside 1

1. RUFUS&RUBY
2. MOTHERS PRAYER
3. THE COUNTRY BROTHER & THE CITY SISTER
4. CHIPPIN

[edit] Cityside 2

1. JUST DONT MAKE NO SENSE
2. DEARMISTUH
3. LOVE THATS AMERICA
4. I REMEMBER
5. MY PAL JOHNNY

[edit] Information

[edit] Musicians

• RHETTA HUGHES-GUEST VOCALIST on Mother's Prayer
• DOUG CARN: KEYBOARDS
• JOHN BOUDREAUX JR.: DRUMS
• TOM SCOTT/ALBERT HALL HORNS
• WILLIAM HENDERSON: STRINGS
• BACKGROUND VOICES: CLYDIE KING, VENETTA FIELDS, RHETTA HUGHES, JESSICA SMITH

[edit] Engineers

• ROBERT APPERE: RECORDING AND MIX
• DICK BURNS: MIX
• PRODUCED AND CONCEIVED BY MELVIN VAN PEEBLES

• ALL WORDS AND MUSIC BY MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
• ALL SELECTIONS PUBLISHED BY ALMO MUSIC CORP./YEAH INC., ASCAP,
• EXCEPT "LOVE THATS; AMERICA," COLGEMS MUSIC, ASCAP
• ART DIRECTION: ROLAND YOUNG
• ALBUM DESIGN: CHUCK BEESON
• PHOTOGRAPHY: JIM McCRARY
• A&M RECORDS, INC.

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