Big Fun (Shalamar album)
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Big Fun is the third album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1979 on the SOLAR label. Big Fun was produced by Leon Sylvers III and is the first album to feature what is considered the 'classic' Shalamar line-up (Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley), with Hewett having replaced Gerald Brown.
Big Fun has been certified Gold in the United States for sales of over 500,000. It peaked at #4 on the R&B chart and #23 on the Billboard chart (Shalamar's highest-placing album on this chart). In the UK it reached #45.
In 2002, Big Fun was re-released by Sanctuary Records in the United Kingdom in a two-for-one CD format with Shalamar's following album Three for Love.
The song "I Owe You One" was sampled in Raw Man's "Beautiful", and Le Knight Club's "Mosquito".
Track listing
Personnel
Shalamar
Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett: lead and backing vocals
Musical Personnel
- Kevin Spencer: keyboards, clavinet
- William Shelby: keyboards, clavinet, Fender Rhodes
- Kossi Gardner: keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ
- "Gip" Nobels, Gene Dozier, Joey Gallo, John Barnes, Ron Artists: keyboards
- Ernest Biles, James Davis: bass
- Leon Sylvers III: bass, percussion
- Ernest Reed, Fred Rheimert, Steve Shockley: guitars
- Freeman Brown, Gerald Thompson, Wardell Potts: drums
- Greg "Popeye" Dawkins: congas
- Fred Lewis: percussion
- Christine Ermacoff, Edgar Lustgarten, Harry Shlutz, Marie Fera: cellos
- Brian Leanord, David Johnson, Jerry Vinci, Ilkka Talvi, Irma Newman, Norman Carr, Norman Leonard, Reginald Hill, Ronald Fulsom, Sheldon Sanou: violins
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