''Heartbeat'' is a studio album by

Curtis Mayfield Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

Background

This 1979 offering mixed

disco Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...

rhythms with soul balladeering. It's the first Mayfield album he didn't produce entirely. Future Temptation

Ron Tyson 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 1 ...

contributed to some of the songwriting and production. Norman Harris and Ronald Tyson also produced two songs, while Bunny Sigler produced three, and Mayfield himself produced three. He wrote and produced an additional song, "Tomorrow Night for Sure", that surfaced in 1990 on the collection ''Of All Time / Classic Collection''. Not on the original LP, "Tomorrow Night for Sure" is also available on the Japanese re-issue of ''Heartbeat'' as an additional track (1998) and on an expanded British CD re-issue of ''The Right Combination'' (1999). "Tell Me, Tell Me (How Ya Like to be Loved)" was remixed for a 12" by Fred Breitberg and Michael Hearn and the duet with

Linda Clifford Linda Clifford (born 1944) is an American R&B, disco and house music singer who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", " Bridge over Troubled Water", " Runaway Love" and " Red Light". Career ...

"Between You Baby and Me", edited as a single, was also issued on ''The Right Combination'', an album of duets between both singers released in 1980. The cover photography was by

Norman Seeff Norman Seeff (born March 5, 1939, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a photographer and filmmaker. Since moving to the United States in 1969, his work has been focused on the exploration of human creativity and the inner dynamics of the creative ...

Track listing

References

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