As Serious As A Heart-Attack
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As Serious As A Heart-Attack is an album by Melvin Van Peebles
. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in the 1973 film version of Van Peebles' musical Don't Play Us Cheap
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Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin "Block" Van Peebles is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films...
. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in the 1973 film version of Van Peebles' musical Don't Play Us Cheap
Don't Play Us Cheap
Don't Play Us Cheap is a 1972 musical written, produced, and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, about an imp and a devil who take human form and try to break up a Harlem house party. A film version was produced in 1973.-Plot:...
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- Love, That's AmericaLove, that's AmericaLove, That's America is a song written by Melvin Van Peebles in 1970 for his film Watermelon Man. He rerecorded it for his 1971 album As Serious as a Heart-Attack...
- I REMEMBER
- MY PAL JOHNNY
Musicians
- RHETTA HUGHES-GUEST VOCALIST on Mother's Prayer
- DOUG CARN: KEYBOARDS
- JOHN BOUDREAUX JR.: DRUMS
- TOM SCOTT/ALBERT HALL HORNS
- WILLIAM HENDERSON: STRINGS
- BACKGROUND VOICES: CLYDIE KING, VENETTA FIELDS, RHETTA HUGHES, JESSICA SMITH
Engineers
- ROBERT APPERE: RECORDING AND MIX
- DICK BURNS: MIX
- PRODUCED AND CONCEIVED BY MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
- ALL WORDS AND MUSIC BY MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
- ALL SELECTIONS PUBLISHED BY ALMO MUSIC CORP./YEAH INC., ASCAP,
- EXCEPT "LOVE THATS; AMERICA," COLGEMS MUSIC, ASCAP
- ART DIRECTION: ROLAND YOUNG
- ALBUM DESIGN: CHUCK BEESON
- PHOTOGRAPHY: JIM McCRARY
- A&M RECORDS, INC.