Love Somebody Today
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B+ [2] |
| Smash Hits | 7/10[3] |
Love Somebody Today is a 1980 album by American R&B/Soul group Sister Sledge released May 16, 1980 on Cotillion Records. Like 1979's highly successful We Are Family, it was both written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the band Chic and includes three single releases; "Got to Love Somebody" (US Pop #64, R&B #6, December 1979), "Reach Your Peak" (Pop #101, R&B #21, March 1980) and "Let's Go on Vacation" (Pop -, R&B #63). The latter was to be included on the Chic-produced soundtrack album Soup For One in 1982.
Love Somebody Today was one of four albums to be written and produced by Edwards and Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World including its hit single "Spacer", Chic's fourth studio album Real People and Diana Ross' multi-platinum selling diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano".
Love Somebody Today, along with six other Sister Sledge albums, was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 2007 by Wounded Bird Records.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.
Side A
- "Got to Love Somebody" - 6:53
- "You Fooled Around" - 4:28
- "I'm a Good Girl" - 4:11
- "Easy Street" - 4:34
Side B
- "Reach Your Peak" - 4:55
- "Pretty Baby" - 4:03
- "How to Love" - 4:32
- "Let's Go on Vacation" - 5:08
Personnel
- Kathy Sledge - lead vocals A1, A2, B3
- Joni Sledge - lead vocals A3, B1
- Kim Sledge - lead vocals A4
- Debbie Sledge - lead vocals B4
- Alfa Anderson - backing vocals A1
- Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals A1
- Luci Martin - backing vocals A1
- Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals A1
- Bernard Edwards - bass guitar
- Gene Orloff - concertmaster
- Tony Thompson - drums
- Nile Rodgers - guitar
- Andy Schwartz - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Raymond Jones - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
- Sammy Figueroa - percussion
- Robert Sabino - piano, clavinet
- Eddie Daniels - saxophone
- Meco Monardo - tenor saxophone
- Bob Milliken - trombone
- Ellen Seeling - trumpet
- Jon Faddis - trumpet
- Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
- Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings - strings
Production
- Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
- Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
- Bill Scheniman - engineer
- Larry Alexander - engineer
- Garry Rindfuss - assistant engineer
- Jeff Hendrickson - assistant engineer
- Peter Robbins - assistant engineer
- Ray Willard - assistant engineer
- Joe Gastwirt - mastering
- All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station Studios, New York
References
- ^ Wynn, Ron. Love Somebody Today > review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "Love Somebody Today > review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ Starr, Red. "Albums". Smash Hits (March 6–19): 30–31.