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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

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Recorded
  
1985–1986 Quad Recording Studio Counter Point Studio Power Station Studio Sound 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.

Contents

Cameo word up


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
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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