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Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection

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Released
  
August 17, 1979

Rose Royce IV Rainbow Connection (1979)
  
Greatest Hits (1980)

Release date
  
17 August 1979

Label
  
Whitfield Records

Length
  
44:30

Artist
  
Rose Royce

Producer
  
Norman Whitfield

Genres
  
Funk, Soul music, Disco

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Recorded
  
Fort Knox Studio (Los Angeles, California)

Similar
  
Rose Royce albums, Soul music albums

Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection is the fourth album released by the Funk band Rose Royce on the Whitfield label in August 1979. It was produced by Norman Whitfield. This would be the last album to include lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left the group to embark on a solo career.

Contents

History

The album peaked at #72 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached #74 on the Billboard 200. Two singles were released from the album, "Is It Love You're After" and "What You Waitin' For". "Is It Love You're After" peaked at #31 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. It was more successful on the UK Singles Chart, reaching #13. "What You Waitin' For" failed to chart. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 2010 by Wounded Bird 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

  • Walter Downing – Clavinet, Rhodes
  • Lafayette Trey Stone, Isy Martin, Wah Wah Watson – guitar
  • Jack Ashford – tambourine, cowbell
  • Production

  • Norman Whitfield – producer, arranger, mixing engineer, album concept
  • Michael Nash – producer ("Pazazz")
  • Bruce Miller – string and horn arrangements
  • Leanard Jackson, Steve Smith – recording engineer, mixing engineer
  • Norman Moore – cover design
  • Scott Hensell – photography
  • Tim Bryant/Gribbitt! – art direction
  • Bill Whitfield – album coordinator
  • Charts

    Singles

    Songs

    1I Wonder Where You Are Tonight3:37
    2Is It Love You're After5:01
    3Shine Your Light5:26

    References

    Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection Wikipedia