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Concept (album)

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Released
  
October 1981

Label
  
SOLAR Records

Genre
  
Soul, Funk

Concept (1981)
  
Bizarre (1984)

Recorded
  
1980–1981 at Studio Masters, Los Angeles, CA, Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA and Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA

Producer
  
Leon Sylvers III Foster Sylvers James Sylvers

Concept is the ninth album by the Los Angeles, California-based R&B group The Sylvers.

Contents

Reception

Released in October, 1981, This would be their only album for SOLAR Records label. It also reunited them with older brother and former member Leon Sylvers III as he was working for SOLAR at the time.

Track listing

  1. "Reach Out" (Charmaine Sylvers, Nidra Beard) – 6:14
  2. "Come Back Lover, Come Back" (Nidra Beard, Stephen Shockley, William Shelby) – 5:00
  3. "Just When I Thought It Was Over" (Glen Barbee, Joey Gallo, Otis Stokes)– 4:37
  4. "Take It to the Top" (Charmaine Sylvers) – 4:29
  5. "I'm Getting Over" (Kevin Spencer, Nidra Beard, William Shelby) – 4:20
  6. "Taking Over" (Charmaine Sylvers, Dana Meyers) – 3:55
  7. "P.S. (The Unfinished Letter)" (Dana Meyers) – 4:08
  8. "Heart Repair Man" (Karen Elliot) – 5:05
  9. "There's a Place" (Julius Johnsen, Karen Elliot) – 3:40

Personnel

  • The Sylvers – vocals, background vocals
  • Leon Sylvers III – bass, vocals
  • Foster Sylvers – bass, percussion
  • James Sylvers – keyboards
  • Ricky Sylvers – keyboards, guitar
  • Patricia Sylvers – keyboards
  • Ed Green, Fred Alexander, Melvin Gentry, Wardell Potts – drums
  • Ernest "Pepper" Reed, Richard Randolph, Stephen Shockley – guitar
  • William Simmons, Bo Watson, Joey Gallo, Kevin Spencer, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Norman Beavers, Rickey Smith, Sylvester Rivers – keyboards
  • Kenny Hudson – percussion

    • References

    Concept (album) Wikipedia
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