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Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin
Wake Up Everybody may refer to: * ''Wake Up Everybody'' (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album) * "Wake Up Everybody" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song) * ''Wake Up Everybody'' (2004 album), a compilation album released to coincide with the U.S. 2004 presidential election * "Wake Up Everybody" (R. Kelly song) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Album)
''Wake Up Everybody'' is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career. The album features the hit singles " Wake Up Everybody" and "Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". "Don't Leave Me This Way", which would be reinterpreted two years later by Thelma Houston, was a hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #5. The lead vocal on the closing album track, "Searching for a Love", was performed virtually solo by Sharon Paige, who also performed duet duties with Pendergrass and Melvin on the song "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good." The album was remastered and reissued with a bonus track, a Tom Moulton remixed version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", in 2008 by Legacy Recordings. Track listing Personnel *Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Song)
"Wake Up Everybody" is an R&B song written by John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstarphen. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes version Originally recorded by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, with Teddy Pendergrass singing lead vocals, the song had a somewhat unconventional structure, starting subdued and building slowly to a climax. The title track from their 1975 album, the song spent two weeks at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1976. It also enjoyed success on the pop charts, peaking at number 12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, number 34 Easy Listening, number 33 in Canada, and number 23 in the UK Singles Chart. They performed the song on '' Soul Train'' on November 22, 1975. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Sonia version "Wake Up Everybody" was covered in 1995 by British singer Sonia. It was produced by Steve Levine for her fourth studio album '' Love Train - The Philly Album'' (1998). The song was released as the album's first and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Up Everybody (2004 Album)
''Wake Up Everybody'' was a compilation album released to coincide with the 2004 presidential election in the U.S. It featured a variety of musical stars, primarily hip hop and R&B artists, who sing songs to urge young Americans to vote. The executive producers of the album were Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Tracey Edmonds, Russell Simmons and Jonathan Lewis. The project was a collaboration with America Coming Together, a political group with the goal of defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Despite this connection, the album was portrayed by its producers as a non-partisan project. In August 2004, the project began with the reworking of " Wake Up Everybody", a 1976 R&B hit song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. The new version of the song was released for radio airplay on August 16 and it reached number 119 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart. The song was released for retail purchase in album form on September 16. The artists featured on the song are Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |