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Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!

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Released
  
August 11, 1978

Length
  
39:10

Release date
  
11 August 1978

Label
  
Rhino/Warner Bros.

Recorded
  
1977–1978

Artist
  
Rose Royce

Producer
  
Norman Whitfield

Genres
  
Funk, Soul music, Disco

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Studio
  
Fort Knox Recording Studio (Los Angeles, California)

Rose Royce III Strikes Again! (1978)
  
Rose Royce IV Rainbow Connection (1979)

Similar
  
Rose Royce albums, Funk albums

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Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! is the third album released by the Funk band Rose Royce on the Whitfield label in August 1978. It was produced by Norman Whitfield.

Contents

History

The album peaked at #4 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached #8 on the Billboard 200. It yielded two Billboard R&B Top Ten singles, "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was also successful on the UK Singles Chart, reaching #2, their highest charting single in the UK. A third single, "First Come, First Serve", was only moderately successful, peaking at #65 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2016 by Big Break Records.

Personnel

Rose Royce

  • Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
  • Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals
  • Kenji Brown – guitar, lead vocals
  • Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass, vocals
  • Michael Nash – keyboards
  • Henry Garner – drums, vocals
  • Freddie Dunn – trumpet
  • Michael Moore – sax
  • Terry Santiel – congas
  • Additional Musicians

  • Victor Nyx, Mark Davis – keyboards
  • Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, Cornelius Grant – guitar
  • Jimmy Valdez – drums
  • Walter Downing – organ
  • Mark Kenoly – bass
  • Jack Ashford – percussion
  • Production

  • Norman Whitfield – producer, arranger, mastering engineer
  • Leanard Jackson – Chief recording engineer mastering engineer*
  • asst. Steve Smith – recording engineer,
  • Gene Page – orchestral direction

  • Eleven Twenty-Four Design – art direction, design
  • Andy Engel – lettering
  • Bobby Holland, Jeffrey Mayer – photography
  • Pamela Clare – cover illustration
  • Bill Whitfield – album coordinator
  • Charts

    Singles

    Songs

    1Get Up Off Your Fat4:36
    2Do It - Do It4:10
    3I'm In Love [And I Love The Feeling]3:44

    References

    Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! Wikipedia