Smackwater Jack

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Released October 1971 Artist Quincy Jones Producer Phil Ramone Genre Jazz		Length 42:48 Release date October 1971 Label A&M Records

Recorded 1971 A & R Studios Sound Ideas Studios Smackwater Jack (1971) Come Back Charleston Blue (1971) Similar Quincy Jones albums, Jazz albums

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Smackwater Jack is a 1971 studio album by Quincy Jones. Tracks include the theme music to Ironside and The Bill Cosby Show.

"Smackwater Jack" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:31
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi, Carel Werber) – 4:26
"Ironside" (Quincy Jones) – 3:53
"What's Going On" (Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) – 9:51
"Theme from "The Anderson Tapes" (from the The Anderson Tapes)" (Jones) – 5:16
"Brown Ballad" (Ray Brown) – 4:20
"Hikky-Burr" (Bill Cosby, Jones) – 4:02
"Guitar Blues Odyssey: From Roots to Fruits" (Jones) – 6:35

Quincy Jones – arranger, conductor, vocals

Valerie Simpson, Bill Cosby, Marilyn Jackson – vocals

Freddie Hubbard, Marvin Stamm – flugelhorn

Buddy Childers, Snooky Young, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal – trumpet

Wayne Andre, Garnett Brown – trombone

Eric Gale, Arthur Adams, Freddie Robinson, Jim Hall, Joe Beck – guitar

Toots Thielemans – guitar, harmonica

Grady Tate – drums, percussion

Paul Humphrey – drums

Bob James, Joe Sample – keyboards

Jaki Byard, Monty Alexander, Bobby Scott – piano

Jimmy Smith – electric organ

Dick Hyman – piano, electric harpsichord

Chuck Rainey, Bob Cranshaw, Carol Kaye – bass guitar

Ray Brown – double bass

Hubert Laws – flute, saxophone

Milt Jackson – vibraphone

Pete Christlieb, Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone

Edd Kalehoff, Paul Beaver – moog synthesizer

1Smackwater Jack3:30
2Cast Your Fate to the Wind4:31
3Ironside3:58

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