Released August 30, 1979 Big Fun
(1979) Three for Love
(1980) Release date 30 August 1979 Label SOLAR Records | Length 37:07 Artist Shalamar Producer Leon Sylvers III Genre Rhythm and blues | |
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Recorded 1979 at Studio Masters, Los Angeles, CA, Jack Clement Studios, Nashville, TN Similar Three for Love, Disco Gardens, Uptown Festival, Circumstantial Evidence, Heartbreak | ||
The right time for us shalamar
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.
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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".
Shalamar
Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett: lead and backing vocals
Musical Personnel
Songs
1The Right Time for Us5:53
2Take Me to the River4:57
3Right in the Socket6:51