''Eddie Kendricks '' is the third album by former
Temptations vocalist
Eddie Kendricks. It was released in the spring of 1973 on
Tamla Records.
Reception
This was the breakthrough solo album Eddie Kendricks was looking for. Charting on the pop chart at number eighteen and number five on the R&B chart. This was his only solo album that would land in the top 20 on the pop chart. Includes the number-one pop and R&B single "
Keep On Truckin'", which is one of the precursor to disco songs to come out before the explosion of the genre.
This album established Kendricks as the most successful member of
the Temptations
The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. The group's work with producer Norman Whitfield, beginning with the Top ...
to go solo. He was the only former member of the group to have a number-one Hot 100 single.
Track listing
Side One
#"Only Room for Two" (Don Daniels, Terri McFaddin) 3:02
#"Darling Come Back Home" (
Frank Wilson,
Kathy Wakefield
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, King Errisson) 4:07
#"Each Day I Cry a Little" (
Leonard Caston
Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston (June 2, 1917 – August 22, 1987) was an American blues pianist and guitarist. He is best noted for the tracks "Blues at Midnight" and "I'm Gonna Walk Your Log".
Life and career
Leonard Caston Sr. was born in S ...
, Terri McFaddin) 7:14
#"Can't Help What I Am" (Frank Wilson, Kathy Wakefield, Leonard Caston) 4:24
Side Two
#"
Keep On Truckin'" (Anita Poree, Frank Wilson, Leonard Caston) 8:02
#"Any Day Now" (
Bob Hilliard,
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gra ...
) 5:09
#"Not on the Outside" (Larry Roberts,
Sylvia Robinson
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) 4:35
#"Where Do You Go (Baby)" (
Gloria Jones,
Pam Sawyer) 3:24
Personnel
*Eddie Kendricks - lead and backing vocals
*Darrell Clayborn,
James Jamerson - bass
*Billy Cooper,
Dean Parks
Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas.
Albums
Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher ...
, Greg Poree - guitar
*
Ed Greene
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In 1971 he recorded with Donald Byrd (''Ethiopian Knights'', 1972), together with Thurman Green, Harold Land, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Sample, Bobbye Porter Hall, David T. Walker, and Wilton ...
,
Kenny "Spider" Rice - drums
*
Gary Coleman,
Jack Ashford - percussion,
vibes
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* Vibes (percussion) or vibraphone, a musical instrument
* Vibes (company) a mobile marketing company
* The aura or energy given off by someone
Media
* ''Vibes'' (film), a 1988 comedy
* ''Vibes'' (video game), a 2010 video ...
*Harold Johnson - piano, organ
*
Leonard Caston Jr. - piano, organ,
clavinet
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*
King Errisson
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
-
conga
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s
*Lezli Valentine - backing vocals on "Not on the Outside"
*
Frank Wilson,
James Anthony Carmichael, Leonard Caston Jr. - arrangements
*
Jerry Long - orchestration direction
*Jim Britt - photography
Charts
Singles
References
External links
Eddie Kendricks-Eddie Kendricks at Discogs
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1973 albums
Eddie Kendricks albums
Tamla Records albums
Albums produced by Frank Wilson (musician)