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The Poet II

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Released
  
1984

Length
  
41:32

Artist
  
Bobby Womack

Label
  
Charly Records

Recorded
  
1983

The Poet II(1984)
  
So Many Rivers(1985)

Release date
  
1984

Genre
  
Rhythm and blues

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Producers
  
Bobby Womack, Andrew Loog Oldham, James Gadson

Similar
  
Bobby Womack albums, Rhythm and blues albums

The Poet II is the fourteenth studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released in 1984, by Beverly Glen Music. The album features three duets with fellow soul legend Patti LaBelle, including the top three R&B charted ballad, "Love Has Finally Come At Last", and the more modest follow-up, "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye". It also includes the top 75 UK dance hit, "Tell Me Why". The UK music magazine NME named it the best album of 1984.

Contents

Track listing

"American Dream" contains an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" 1963 speech

Personnel

  • Bobby Womack – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Patti LaBelle – vocals
  • Courtney Sappington, David T. Walker, George Benson, Robert Palmer – guitar
  • David Shields – bass
  • Michael Wycoff – keyboards
  • Denzil "Broadway" Miller, Frank "Rusty" Hamilton – synthesizer
  • James E. Gadson – drums
  • Fred Johnson – electronic drums
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Fernando Harkless, Fred Wesley, Harry Kim, Sidney Muldrow, Thurman Green, Wilton Felder – horns
  • Dorothy Ashby – harp
  • James Gadson, Kathy Bloxson, Regina Womack, The Valentinos, Luther Waters, Julia Waters, Oren Waters, Maxine Waters – background vocals
  • David Blumberg – string arrangements
    • Technical
  • Otis Smith – executive producer
  • Barney Perkins - mix engineer

    • Songs

    1Love Has Finally Come at Last5:36
    2It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye3:51
    3Through the Eyes of a Child5:15

    References

    The Poet II Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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