Some People Can Do What They Like is Robert Palmer's third solo album

Album

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, released in 1976. It includes "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" which peaked at #63 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and #46 in the UK in 1977. The album peaked at #68 in the US. The album was dedicated to Mongezi Feza

Mongezi Feza

Mongezi Feza was a South African jazz trumpet player and flautist.-Biography:Feza was born in Queenstown, South Africa in 1945. A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen. As a trumpeter, his influences included hard bopper...

. The model on the front cover, engaging Palmer in a game of strip poker

Strip poker

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, is Playboy

Playboy

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magazine's April 1976 Playmate of the Month, Denise Michele

Denise Michele

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Track listing

1. "One Last Look" (Bill Payne
   Bill Payne
   Bill Payne is a founding member of American rock band Little Feat. He is considered by many other piano rock musicians, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists...
   
   , Fran Tate) – 4:22
2. "Keep in Touch" (Robert Palmer) – 3:25
3. "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" (David Kleiber) – 2:35
4. "Spanish Moon" (Lowell George
   Lowell George
   Lowell Thomas George was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, who was the main guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.- Early years :...
   
   ) – 5:58
5. "Have Mercy" (Don Covay
   Don Covay
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   ) – 3:50
6. "Gotta Get a Grip on You, Pt. II" (Robert Palmer, Alan Powell) – 3:57
7. "What Can You Bring Me" (James Gadson
   James Gadson
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   ) – 3:43
8. "Hard Head" (John Watson) – 4:30
9. "Off the Bone" (Phil Brown, Robert Palmer, Steve Smith) – 2:18
10. "Some People Can Do What They Like" (Robert Palmer) – 4:09

Personnel

• Robert Palmer - vocals
• Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey
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   - bass
• Paul Barrere
  Paul Barrere
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   - guitar, background vocals
• Chilli Charles - timbales
• Pierre Brock - bass
• Greg Carroll - harmonica
• Sam Clayton
  Sam Clayton
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   - percussion, background vocals
• Robert Greenidge - steel drums & pans
• Freddie Harris - guitar
• Richard Hayward
  Richard Hayward
  Richard Hayward was an Irish film actor, writer and musician. Born in Larne, he was an enthusiast for all Ulster regional popular culture. After a period working at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin he helped form the Belfast Repertory Theatre Company. He was a popular singer in the forties and fifties...
  
   - drums
• Carol Kaye
  Carol Kaye
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   - guitar
• Jody Linscott
  Jody Linscott
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   - percussion, Conductor
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  Jeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
  
   - drums
• Bill Payne
  Bill Payne
  Bill Payne is a founding member of American rock band Little Feat. He is considered by many other piano rock musicians, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists...
  
  - keyboards, background vocals
• James Allen Smith - keyboards
• Freddie Wall - guitar
• Michael "Spider" Webb - drums
• William D. "Smitty" Smith - keyboards
• Arthur Smith - ocarina, penny whistle