Movin' On (Commodores album)

Movin' On
Studio album by Commodores
Released October 1975
Recorded 1975
Genre Soul, funk
Length 37:26
Label Motown
Producer James Anthony Carmichael, Commodores
Commodores chronology
Caught in the Act
(1975)Caught in the Act1975		 Movin' On
(1975)		 Hot on the Tracks
(1976)Hot on the Tracks1976

Movin' On is the third studio album by the Commodores, released by Motown Records in 1975.

Reception

The album reached number 29 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and number seven on the R&B albums chart. The only single released from the album, "Sweet Love", a mid-tempo ballad about "the virtues of peace and harmony during troubled times,"[1] reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1976, making it the group's first top ten hit on the chart. However, the last track, "Cebu", became a staple on the "Quiet Storm" radio stations, and appeared as a B-side to two of their later singles, "Fancy Dancer" (1976) and "Only You" (1983).

Allmusic rated the album four and a half out of five stars.[2]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hold On" (Thomas McClary, Lionel Richie) – 3:16
  2. "Free" (Richie, McClary) – 3:54
  3. "Mary, Mary" (Milan Williams) – 4:08
  4. "Sweet Love" (Richie) – 6:31

Side Two

  1. "(Can I) Get a Witness" (Walter "Clyde" Orange) – 5:01
  2. "Gimme My Mule" (Ronald LaPread) – 5:05
  3. "Time" (William King, McClary) – 3:21
  4. "Cebu" (instrumental) (McClary) – 4:48

Personnel

Charts

Year Album Chart positions[3]
US US
R&B
1975 Movin' On 29 7

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[4]
US US
R&B		 US
Dance
1975 "Gimme My Mule" — — 11
1976 "Sweet Love" 5 2 —

Later samples

References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Marc. A Touch of Classic Soul 2: The Late 1970s. Aloiv Publishing. p. 84 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Movin' On at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "The Commodores US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  4. ↑ "The Commodores US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
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