''Barrabás'' is the sixth album by the

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, released in 1977. It was the last album before the group's four-year hiatus, and the last to feature several band members including Ricky Morales, Juan Vidal and Daniel Louis. American jazz musician

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featured in the recording of the album, after his hit cover of Barrabás' song " Hi Jack", which was released earlier that year. Also appearing was American saxophonist

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. The album is sometimes known as ''Swinger'', after the opening track. The album was later re-released on CD as ''Watch-Out'' with a similar sleeve, but is not related to the other Barrabás album of that name, the 1975 release, '' Watch Out''. "Swinger" / "Week End" was released as a single.

Track listing

#"Swinger" (

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) – 4:55 #"Movin' On" ( Ernesto Duarte) – 4:30 #"Turn Me Love" (Enrique Morales) – 4:48 #"Oldie" (Duarte, E. Morales, Miguel Morales) – 5:10 #"Week End" (E. Morales, M. Morales) – 4:42 #"Do It" (M. Morales) – 4:09 #"Sweet and Mellow" (E. Morales) – 4:48 #"Love Is in the Air" (M. Morales) – 4:10

Personnel

*José Luís Tejada –

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on tracks 1–3 *Enrique "Ricky" Morales –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

, backing vocals *Miguel Morales –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, backing vocals, lead vocals on track 8 * Ernesto "Tito" Duarte –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, bass guitar *Juan Vidal – keyboards, backing vocals *Daniel Louis –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, percussion *

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on track 1 *

– saxophone on track 6 *Ray Gomez – guitar on track 2 *Produced by

*Recorded at

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, New York

Release information

*Spain –

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Eurodisc *Disconforme DISC 1988CD (2001 CD) as ''Watch-Out''

References

* Entry for the ''Watch-Out'' CD version at

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