Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!

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Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!
File:Strikes Again 1978.jpg
Studio album by Rose Royce
Released August 11, 1978
Recorded 1977–1978
Studio Fort Knox Recording Studio
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre Funk, soul, disco
Length 39:10
Label Whitfield
Producer Norman Whitfield
Rose Royce chronology
Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom
(1977)Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom1977		 Rose Royce III: Strikes Again!
(1978)		 Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection
(1979)Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection1979
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars [1]

Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! is the third album released by the Funk band Rose Royce on the Whitfield label in August 1978. It was produced by Norman Whitfield.

History

The album peaked at #4 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached #8 on the Billboard 200. It yielded two Billboard R&B Top Ten singles, "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was also successful on the UK Singles Chart, reaching #2, their highest charting single in the UK. A third single, "First Come, First Serve", was only moderately successful, peaking at #65 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 2010 by Wounded Bird Records.

Track listing

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Get Up Off Your Fat"   Norman Whitfield 4:35
2. "Do It, Do It"   Norman Whitfield 4:09
3. "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)"   Norman Whitfield 3:41
4. "First Come, First Serve"   Norman Whitfield 3:19
5. "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"   Miles Gregory 3:56
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
6. "Angel in the Sky"   Billie Calvin 4:56
7. "Help"   Robert Daniels 3:53
8. "Let Me Be the First to Know"   Miles Gregory 3:52
9. "That's What's Wrong With Me"   Norman Whitfield, Rose Royce 6:37

Personnel

Rose Royce

  • Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
  • Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals
  • Kenji Brown – guitar, lead vocals
  • Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass, vocals
  • Michael Nash – keyboards
  • Henry Garner – drums, vocals
  • Freddie Dunn – trumpet
  • Michael Moore – sax
  • Terry Santiel – congas

Additional Musicians

Production

  • Norman Whitfield – producer, arranger, mastering engineer
  • Leanard Jackson – Chief recording engineer mastering engineer*
  • asst. Steve Smith – recording engineer,

Gene Page – orchestral direction

  • Eleven Twenty-Four Design – art direction, design
  • Andy Engel – lettering
  • Bobby Holland, Jeffrey Mayer – photography
  • Pamela Clare – cover illustration
  • Bill Whitfield – album coordinator

Charts

Chart (1978) Peak
[2][3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 28
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 4
UK Albums Chart 7
Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions
US
[2]		 US
R&B
[2]		 UK
[3]
1978 "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" — 5 51
"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" 32 5 2
1979 "First Come, First Serve" — 65 —

References

  1. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew. Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
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External links

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