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As Serious as a Heart Attack

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Released
  
1971

Artist
  
Melvin Van Peebles

Producer
  
Melvin Van Peebles

Genre
  
Spoken word

Recorded
  
1971

Release date
  
1971

Label
  
A&M Records

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As Serious As A Heart-Attack is a 1971 spoken word album by Melvin Van Peebles. This is Van Peebles third studio record. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in the 1973 film version of Van Peebles' musical Don't Play Us Cheap.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Melvin Van Peebles

Countryside 1

  1. "Rufus & Ruby"
  2. "Mothers Prayer"
  3. "The Country Brother & The City Sister"
  4. "Chippin"

Cityside 2

  1. "Just Don't Make No Sense"
  2. "Dearmistuh"
  3. "Love, That's America"
  4. "I Remember"
  5. "My Pal Johnny"

Musicians

  • Rhetta Hughes - Guest Vocalist on "Mother's Prayer"
  • Doug Carn - Keyboards
  • John Boudreaux Jr. - Drums
  • Tom Scott, Albert Hall, Jr. - Horns
  • William Henderson - Strings
  • Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Rhetta Hughes, Jessica Smith - backing vocals

    • Engineers

  • Robert Appère: Recording And Mix
  • Dick Burns: Mix
  • Produced And Conceived By Melvin Van Peebles
  • All Words And Music By Melvin Van Peebles
  • All Selections Published By Almo Music Corp./Yeah Inc., Ascap,
  • Except "Love That's, America," Colgems Music, Ascap
  • Art Direction: Roland Young
  • Album Design: Chuck Beeson
  • Photography: Jim McCrary
  • A&M Records, Inc.

    • Songs

    1Rufus and Ruby7:59
    2Mother's Prayer4:04
    3The Country Brother and the City Sister6:20

    References

    As Serious as a Heart-Attack Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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