''There's Gonna Be a Showdown'' is a 1969 album by 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 Archie Bell & the Drells, released by the record label

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. It was their last album released on Atlantic, and preceded a six-year gap before the recording of its follow-up, ''Dance Your Troubles Away'', which appeared on producers

Kenny Gamble Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production team credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as ...

and Leon Huff's own label, Philadelphia International.

Track listing

# "I Love My Baby" (Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell) # "Houston Texas" (Bobby Martin, Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell) # "(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) # "Giving Up Dancing" (Bobby Martin, Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell) # "Girl You're Too Young" (Archie Bell, Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell) # "Mama Didn't Teach Me That Way" (Archie Bell) # "Do the Handjive" (Kenneth Gamble, Thom Bell) # "My Balloon's Going Up" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) # "Here I Go Again" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) # "Go for What You Know" (Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals) # "Green Power" (Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals) # "Just a Little Closer" (Archie Bell)

References

Archie Bell & the Drells albums 1969 albums Albums produced by Kenneth Gamble Albums produced by Leon Huff Atlantic Records albums {{1960s-R&B-album-stub