''Music Is the Message'' is the second studio album, and the fourth overall album, by the funk band
Kool & the Gang.
[ It was released in 1972.
The album peaked at No. 25 on the ''Billboard'' ]Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated J ...
chart.
Track listing
Personnel
* Dennis "D. T." Thomas – alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...
, vocals, flute, percussion
* Ronald Bell – tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...
, vocals, alto flute
The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, the second-highest member below the standard C flute after the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the ...
* Robert "Spike" Mickens – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
, percussion
* Claydes Smith – guitar
* Rick West – pianos, ARP synthesizer
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman
in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before de ...
, vocals
* Robert "Kool" Bell – bass, vocals
* George Brown – drums, percussion, vocals
;Additional personnel
* Assunta Dell’Aquila – harp
References
External links
*
1972 albums
Kool & the Gang albums
De-Lite Records albums
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