Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...

’s 1980 collaboration with disco

Disco

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 singer Linda Clifford

Linda Clifford

Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....

. Originally released on Curtom, it was recorded in Chicago except "It's lovin' time" recorded in Philadelphia. The album was produced by Curtis Mayfield and Gil Askey except “Ain't No Love Lost” solely by Mayfield and “It's Lovin' Time (Your Baby's Home)” by Curtis Mayfield, Norman Harris and Bruce Gray. Gil Askey arranged the album except “It's Lovin' Time (Your Baby's Home)” which was arranged by Norman Harris. Linda Clifford has collaborated with Gil Askey and Curtis Mayfield on her previous four albums for Curtom and with Norman Harris on an album released just before ("Here's my love"). In 1980 she would sing "Red light" for the Fame

Fame

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 soundtrack and collaborate with Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

 for her next album. The album was reissued on cd in 1999 in Britain with 11 bonus tracks (8 by Clifford, 3 by Mayfield) and a bonus 1972 radio interview of Mayfield on an additional cd.

Track listing

1. “Rock You to Your Socks”
2. “Right Combination”
3. “I'm So Proud”
4. “Ain't No Love Lost”
5. “It's Lovin' Time (Your Baby's Home)”
6. “Love's Sweet Sensation”
7. “Between You Baby and Me"

Personnel

• Curtis Mayfield, Linda Clifford - vocals
• Bruce Gaitsch
  Bruce Gaitsch
  Bruce R. Gaitsch is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is best known for working with notable musicians such as Richard Marx, Chicago, Peter Cetera, Madonna, Agnetha Fältskog and many others as a session musician and songwriter...
  
  , Curtis Mayfield, Ross Traut, Tom Ferrone - guitar
• Joseph "Lucky" Scott, Keni Burke
  Keni Burke
  Kenneth M. Burke , better known as Keni Burke, is an American R&B, soul, funk, and jazz singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a member of the 1970s soul outfit, the Five Stairsteps.-Five Stairsteps:As a member of the Five Stairsteps, Burke wrote the...
  
   - bass
• Lonnie Reaves, Tim Tobias - keyboards
• Wendell Stewart - drums
• Alejo, Henry Gibson, Tony Carpenter - percussion
• Sonny Seals - saxophone
• Alphonso Surrett, Henry Hicks Jr., Ricky Linton- background vocals
• Curtis Mayfield, Gil Askey, Norman Harris, Bruce Gray - producers
• Gil Askey, Norman Harris - arrangers
• Roger Anfisen, Fred Breitberg - sound engineers