Word Up! (album)

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Released September 9, 1986 Label Atlanta Artists Artist Cameo Producer Larry Blackmon		Length 34:46 Word Up!(1986) Machismo(1988) Release date 9 September 1986

Recorded 1985–1986Quad Recording StudioCounter Point StudioPower Station StudioSound Ideas Studio(all in New York City) Awards Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album - Group, Band or Duo Genres Funk, Rhythm and blues, New jack swing Similar She's Strange, Single Life, Cameosis, Alligator Woman, Ugly Ego

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Word Up! is an album by the funk/R&B group Cameo released in 1986. The record made Cameo one of the most successful bands of that decade.

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Track listing

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 published by All Seeing Eye Music-Better Days Music.
Tracks 4 & 5 published by All Seeing Eye Music-Better Days Music-Better Nights Music.

Personnel

Cameo

Larry Blackmon: lead vocals, bass guitar, drums, percussion, backing vocals

Tomi Jenkins: lead vocals, backing vocals

Nathan Leftenant: backing vocals

Other players

Charlie Singleton: guitar, backing vocals

Aaron Mills: bass guitar

Michael Burnett: bass guitar, backing vocals

Bernard Wright, Eric Rehl, Kenni Hairston, Kevin Kendrick, Merv de Peyer: keyboards

Duduka Fonseca, Giovanni Hidalgo, Steve Thornton: percussion

Melvin Wells: saxophone, backing vocals

Michael Brecker: tenor saxophone (solo on "Candy")

Randy Brecker: trumpet

Arno Hecht: tenor saxophone

Crispin Cioe: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone

Robert Funk: trombone

Paul Litteral: trumpet

Sammy Merendino: drum programming

Patrick Buchanon: guitars

Peter Scherer: Synclavier programming

Willie Morris: backing vocals

Chart positions

The Billboard 200 - #8

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - #1

Singles

"Word Up" - released May 27, 1986

"Candy" - released October 21, 1986

"Back and Forth" - released February 24, 1987

Songs

1Word Up!4:19
2Candy5:41
3Back and Forth6:34

References

Word Up! (album) Wikipedia

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