Best of 12" Gold, Volume 15

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1You Gave Me Love
Crown Heights Affair5:48
2Casanova
cover recording of:
Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)
writer:
Jo Armstead and Milton Middlebrook
Coffee46:10
3I Never Knew Love Like This Before
producer:
Reggie Lucas and James Mtume (jazz/funk musician)
strings arranger and wind instruments [Horn Arrangements] arranger:
Wade Marcus
vocals arranger:
Tawatha Agee, Reggie Lucas and James Mtume (jazz/funk musician)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
20th Century-Fox Record Corporation (in 1977)
recorded at and mixed at:
Sigma Sound Studios (New York) in New York, New York, United States
recording of:
Never Knew Love Like This Before
writer:
Reggie Lucas and James Mtume (jazz/funk musician)
publisher:
Frozen Butterfly Publishing Co.
Stephanie Mills5:27
4She's a Bad Mama Jama
producer:
Leon Haywood
recording of:
She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)
composer:
Leon Haywood
Carl Carlton5:51
5Burn Rubber on Me
recording of:
Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
writer:
Lonnie Simmons (producer, songwriter), Rudy Taylor (vocalist and songwriter) and Charlie Wilson (R&B singer)
The Gap Band45:33
6Celebration
background vocals:
Kelly Barretto, Ronald Bell, George Brown (US percussionist of Kool & the Gang), Dee Dee Bryant, Gwen Hester, Cynthia Huggins, Joan Motley, Meekaeel Muhammad, Robert Bell, Robert Mickens, Elaine Sims, James “J.T.” Taylor (US R&B vocalist for Kool & the Gang), Cedric Toon and Earl Toon, Jr.
lead vocals:
James “J.T.” Taylor (US R&B vocalist for Kool & the Gang)
performer:
Kool & the Gang
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
UMG Recordings, Inc. (operational headquarters of Universal Music Group, based in Santa Monica, USA; read annotations) (in 1980, in 2020)
part of:
Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 298)
recording of:
Celebration
writer:
Robert “Kool” Bell, Ronald Bell, George Brown (US percussionist of Kool & the Gang), Eumir Deodato, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Smith, James “J.T.” Taylor (US R&B vocalist for Kool & the Gang), Dennis “D.T.” Thomas (Kool & The Gang) and Earl Toon, Jr.
publisher:
Delightful Music Publishing Ltd., Double F Music Co., EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd (not for release label use!), EMI Music Publishing WP Ltd., Fresh Start Music, Intersong-Förlagen AB, Planetary Nom (London) Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. (1996–2019), Warner–Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (publisher; do NOT use as release label) (in 1980) and WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (in 1980)
Kool & the Gang4.54:56
7Southern Freeez
recording of:
Southern Freeez
writer:
Peter Maas, John Rocca and Andy Stennett
Freeez3.55:41
8Walking Into Sunshine
engineer:
Dennis Weinreich
producer:
Roy Carter (UK guitarist for Heatwave)
mixer:
Peter Walsh (UK producer)
remixer:
Larry Levan
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Mercury Records Ltd. (not for release label use!) (in 1981)
recording of:
Walking Into Sunshine
lyricist:
Lipson Francis
composer:
Linton Beckles, Roy Carter (UK guitarist for Heatwave) and Lipson Francis
publisher:
April Music Ltd., Central Line Music and LTL Music
Central Line7:54

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part of:Best of 12″ Gold (number: 15) (order: 15)