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Released
  
March 1977

Love Storm (1977)
  
Future Bound (1978)

Producer
  
Freddie Perren

Length
  
35:44

Release date
  
March 1977

Label
  
Capitol Records


Artists
  
Tavares, Ginny and the Heartbreakers

Genres
  
Soul music, Disco, Rhythm and blues

Similar
  
Tavares albums, Disco albums

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Love Storm is the fifth album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, and the second to be produced by Freddie Perren, released in 1977 on the Capitol label.

Contents

Commercial performance

The album continues in the style Perren had used on 1976's Sky High!, with a mixture of R&B material and radio-friendly disco-oriented tracks.

Lead single "Whodunit", with its lyrics pleading to several 1970s TV detectives ("Hey Baretta, won't you please go get her? .... Kojak, won't you bring her back?"), became the group's third and final R&B chart-topper, also reaching #22 on the pop chart and #5 in the United Kingdom. "One Step Away" also made the UK top 20, but "I Wanna See You Soon", featuring Capitol label-mate Freda Payne,stalled just outside the Top 50, breaking a run of five consecutive top 25 singles for the group in Britain. Love Storm includes one cover version, the Jim Weatherly-penned "The Going Ups and the Coming Downs", originally recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips on their 1974 album I Feel a Song. The album peaked at #15 on the R&B chart and #59 on the pop chart.

Track listing

All tracks written by Keni St. Lewis and Freddie Perren, except where noted.

Singles

  • "Whodunit" (US Pop #22, US R&B #1, UK #5)
  • "Goodnight My Love" (US R&B #14)
  • "One Step Away" (UK #16)
  • "I Wanna See You Soon"
  • Songs

    1Whodunit3:36
    2Keep in Touch3:47
    3I Wanna See You Soon3:48

    References

    Love Storm Wikipedia