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Check It Out (album)

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Released
  
January 1974

Length
  
36:27

Release date
  
January 1974

Label
  
Caroline Records

Recorded
  
1973(track 3,4.7)/1974

Artist
  
Tavares

Producer
  
Johnny Bristol


Check It Out (1974)
  
Hard Core Poetry (1974)

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues

Similar
  
Supercharged, In the City, Love Uprising, New Directions, Future Bound

Tavares check it out


Check It Out is the debut album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1974 on the Capitol label.

Contents

Tavares check it out


Commercial performance

The album was produced by Johnny Bristol and was moderately successful, peaking at #20 on the R&B chart. Both singles, "Check It Out" and "That's the Sound That Lonely Makes", made the R&B top 10.

Personnel

  • Johnny Bristol – producer
  • George Cucuzzella – executive producer
  • Gene Estes – percussion
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Bobbye Hall – conga
  • James Jamerson, Jr. – bass
  • Robert Matichak – producer
  • Eric Matthew – arranger, vocals, producer
  • Mike Melvoin – keyboards
  • Weldon Dean Parks – guitar
  • Darryl Payne – arranger, vocals, producer
  • Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin – guitar
  • Joe Sample – piano
  • Antone Tavares – vocals
  • Feliciano Tavares – vocals
  • Perry Tavares – vocals
  • Ralph Vierra Tavares – vocals
  • Tavares – arranger, vocals, producer
  • David T. Walker – guitar
  • Singles

  • "Check It Out" (US Pop #35, US R&B #5)
  • "That's the Sound That Lonely Makes" (US Pop #70, US R&B #10)
  • Songs

    1If That's the Way You Want It
    2Strangers in Dark Corners
    3That's the Sound That Lonely Makes

    References

    Check It Out (album) Wikipedia