''Alligator Woman'' is a 1982 album by the American

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

band Cameo, released by

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. It is the group's eighth studio album, and the first released after group leader

Larry Blackmon Larry Ernest Blackmon (born May 24, 1956) is an American vocalist and musician who gained acclaim as the lead singer and founder frontman of the funk and R&B band Cameo. Musical career Starting the band "East Coast", Blackmon formed the "N ...

reduced the band from 11 members to 5 (himself, Tomi Jenkins, Nathan Leftenant, Charlie Singleton, and Gregory Johnson (who would leave the band prior to their next album). ''Alligator Woman'' combined Cameo’s traditional funk with elements of rock and new wave, and was the band’s fifth consecutive album to be certified Gold by the

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for sales of over 500,000 copies. The cover artwork model is the Canadian singer/model

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(Denise Matthews).

Track listing

Personnel

* Backing vocals - Charlie Singleton, Gregory Johnson,

, Nathan Leftenant, Tomi Jenkins *

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

- Michael Burnett *

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, percussion - Larry Blackmon *

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

- Charlie Singleton *

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- Charlie Singleton, Gregory Johnson, Kevin Kendricks, Randy Stern *

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- Charlie Singleton, Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins * Mixed by - Larry Blackmon, Tom Race * Producer - Larry Blackmon *

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

- Nathan Leftenant

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

*"Be Yourself" *"Flirt" *"Alligator Woman"

References

Cameo (band) albums 1982 albums Casablanca Records albums {{1980s-R&B-album-stub