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Black and White (Pointer Sisters album)

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Released
  
June 1981

Black & White (1981)
  
So Excited! (1982)

Release date
  
June 1981

Label
  
Planet

Artist
  
The Pointer Sisters

Producer
  
Richard Perry

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Recorded
  
Studio 55 (Los Angeles, California) Celebration Recording (New York City, New York)

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Pop music

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

Similar
  
The Pointer Sisters albums, Rhythm and blues albums

Black & White is the eighth studio album by the Pointer Sisters, released in 1981 on the Planet label.

Contents

History

Black & White was their fourth record with producer Richard Perry and yielded the #2 pop hit "Slow Hand". The fourth single release, "Should I Do It", reached #13 in the spring of 1982, making Black & White the first Pointer Sisters album to yield two Top Twenty hits. Black & White was certified Gold in September 1981. The album was remastered and issued on CD with bonus tracks in 2009 by Wounded Bird Records.

Personnel

  • Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, June Pointer – vocals
  • Paul Jackson, Tim May – guitar
  • Mike Porcaro, Nate Watts – bass
  • Trevor Lawrence – tenor saxophone
  • John Barnes – piano, electric piano, keyboards
  • Greg Phillinganes – electric piano
  • Danny Faragher, William Smith – organ
  • Ed Walsh – synthesizer
  • Mike Cotten – synthesizer, programming
  • James Newton Howard – keyboards, synthesizer
  • John Robinson – drums
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Production

  • Richard Perry – producer
  • Trevor Lawrence – associate producer
  • Gabe Veltri – recording engineer
  • Bill Schnee – remix engineer
  • Songs

    1Sweet Lover Man4:14
    2Someday We'll Be Together4:40
    3Take My Heart - Take My Soul4:07

    References

    Black & White (Pointer Sisters album) Wikipedia


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