Tasty (Patti LaBelle album)
Tasty is the second solo album released by recording artist Patti LaBelle, her second solo album with Epic Records. Compared to the success of her debut album, released the previous year, the album performed only modestly well but featured the popular tunes "Eyes in the Back of My Head", which became a club hit, the Latin soul flavored "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)", the David Lasley composition "I See Home" (covered a year later by Tina Turner) and the ballad "Little Girls". "Eyes in the Back of My Head" became an international hit reaching the top five of the Italian singles chart. The album also featured covers of songs by Boz Scaggs, The Drifters and Roy Hamilton in addition to a couple songs co-written by LaBelle herself, including "Teach Me Tonight" and "Quiet Time".
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Released | May 19, 1978[1] | |||
Recorded | 1978 | |||
Studio | The Automatt, San Francisco, California | |||
Genre | Soul, disco | |||
Length | 47:12 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | David Rubinson | |||
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Allmusic | [2] |
Track listing
- "Save the Last Dance for Me" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) (5:05)
- "Monkey See Monkey Do" (Michael Franks) (5:12)
- "Little Girls" (Allee Willis) (6:46)
- "You Make It Hard to Say No" (Boz Scaggs) (5:35)
- "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)" (Armstead Edwards, James R. Budd Ellison, LaBelle) (5:21)
- "Quiet Time" (Armstead Edwards, James R. Budd Ellison, LaBelle) (5:05)
- "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) (4:06)
- "I See Home" (Allee Willis, David Lasley) (5:57)
- "Eyes in the Back of My Head" (Pete Wingfield) (5:25)
- 2014 remaster[3]
- 10. "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)" [Single Version] (3:26)
- 11. "Little Girls" [Single Version] (3:58)
- 12. "Eyes in the Back of My Head" [12" Disco Version] (8:00)
- 13. "Save the Last Dance for Me" [12" Disco Version] (7:14)
Personnel
- Patti LaBelle - lead vocals
- Leo Nocentelli, Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker Jr. - guitar
- Eddie N. Watkins Jr., Pablo Tellez - bass guitar
- James Budd Ellison, Richard Kermode - keyboards
- James Gadson, Ollie E. Brown, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler - drums
- Andy Narell - steel drums
- Raul Rekow - congas
- Sheila Escovedo - timbales
- Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters, Carlos D. Aleman, Willie Colón - backing vocals
- Al Bent - brass arrangements
- Dale Warren - orchestral arrangements, conductor
Charts
Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200[4] | 129 |
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[5] | 39 |
References
- WebVoyage Record View 1
- Allmusic review
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-14. Retrieved 2014-04-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Patti LaBelle Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
- "Patti LaBelle Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2020.