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Wake Up Everybody is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff . This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career.
The album's lead single, "Wake Up Everybody", a cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song of the same name, was released on April 29, 2010, and features rapper Common and Canadian R&B singer Melanie Fiona. [9] It reached number 53 and spent 14 weeks on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. [10]
Thelma Houston, who had a 1977 #1 with her version of The Blue Notes' "Don't Leave Me This Way", covered "Wake Up Everybody" for her 2007 album A Woman's Touch. In 2010, the song was covered by John Legend and The Roots. Also featuring Common, and Melanie Fiona, it was the first single taken from their politically themed album 'Wake Up!' [10]
The group recorded four albums with Gamble & Huff, all of them going gold (over 500,000 copies), according to RIAA, including To Be True (number 26, Billboard Top 40 albums) and Wake Up Everybody (number 9), both in 1975. Wake Up Everybody and a greatest hits compilation released in 1976, Collector's Item, has now sold over a million copies.
From the paranoid, slightly demented hip-hop-rock opening song “Wake Up” — with Reynolds singing: “Everybody’s coming for you/Wake up!” — to the strummy, swaying “Take Me to the ...
Wake Up Everybody may refer to: Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album) "Wake Up Everybody" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song) Wake Up Everybody, a compilation album released to coincide with the U.S. 2004 presidential election "Wake Up Everybody" (R. Kelly song)
When the Zac Brown Band launch into the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” a highlight on their new double live From the Road, Vol. 1: Covers, you can almost hear the synapses firing in the audience.
Wake Up Everybody is a compilation album released to coincide with the 2004 presidential election in the U.S. It featured a variety of musical stars, primarily hip hop and R&B artists, who sing songs to urge young Americans to vote. The executive producers of the album were Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Tracey Edmonds, Russell Simmons and ...
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