She's Strange is the tenth album by the funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

/R&B band Cameo

Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...

, released in 1984.

This album is dedicated to the late Polygram A&R-representative , Bill Haywood.
As Cameo mentions in the liner-notes of the album , "The album which he always wanted". The track, "Talking Out the Side of Your Neck", is an extremely popular arrangement amongst marching bands, especially those from HBCUs

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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, as a search of videos on the web demonstrates.

Track listing

1. "She's Strange
   She's Strange (song)
   "She's Strange" is a 1984 single by the R&B/funk band, Cameo. It is the title track from their tenth album. The single was their first to top the R&B chart, hitting number one for four weeks in April 1984. The single was the band's first to reach the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, peaking at number...
   
   " – 7:12 - L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/N.Leftenant/C.Singleton
2. "Love You Anyway" – 5:01 - C.Singleton/M.Wells
3. "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" – 4:04 - L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/N.Leftenant/C.Singleton
4. "Tribute to Bob Marley" – 5:20
5. "Groove With You" – 5:10
6. "Hangin' Downtown" – 5:07 - K.Hairston
7. "Lé Ve Toi!" – 4:50

Personnel

• Rod Antoon - Keyboards
  Keyboardist
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• Anthony Barboza - Photography
  Photography
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• Larry Blackmon - Percussion, Arranger
  Arrangement
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  , Drums
  Drummer
  A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
  
  , Guitar (Bass)
  Bassist
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  , Vocals, Producer, Horn
  Horn section
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   Arrangements, Mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Michael Burnett - Guitar (Bass)
• Glen Christensen - Graphic design
  Graphic design
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• Mac James - Artwork
• Tomi Jenkins - Vocals
• Steve Jerome - Mixing
• Kevin Kendrick - Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , Keyboards
• Nathan Leftenant - Vocals (bckgr), Horn Arrangements
• Bill Levy - Art Direction
  Art director
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• Wesley Phillips - Trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Alan "Funt" Prater - Trombone
• Tom Race - Engineer, Mixing
• Charlie Singleton - Synthesizer, Guitar
  Guitarist
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  , Percussion, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals
• Jack Skinner - Mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Melvin Wells - Guitar (Bass), Sax (Alto)
  Alto saxophone
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  , Vocals (bckgr), Horn Arrangements

Album cover

80's and early 90's singer/actress/model Vanity

Vanity (performer)

Denise Katrina Matthews , better known as Vanity, but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model from the 1980s until the early mid-90s...

 appears on the album's cover, as well as on cover of the band's 1982 album, Alligator Woman

Alligator Woman

Alligator Woman is the eighth album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1982. It contains the funk classic, "Flirt".The cover artwork model is the Prince protege Denise Matthews, aka Vanity.-Track listing:...

.

Later Samples

• "She's Strange"
  • "Young Niggaz" by 2Pac from the album Me Against the World
    Me Against the World
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  • "She's Strange" by Nate Dogg
    Nate Dogg
    Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...
    
     from the album "G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2
    G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2
    G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2 is the debut album by Nate Dogg. The album was originally to be released through Death Row Records in 1996, but the album was shelved due to legal problems at Death Row Records, and he wasn't able to release it until the summer of 1998...
    
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  • "We Want Yo Hands Up" Mr. Malik featuring Warren G & Hershey Locc