Midnight Dancer

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Personnel: Earnest Reed, Jr., Isy Martin, Wah Wah Watson (guitar); Kenneth Scott, Chris Powell , La Morris Payne (horns); Walter Downing (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet); Mark Kenoly (bass guitar); Eddie Summers (drums); Eddie "Bongo" Brown (congas); Jack Ashford (percussion); Julia Tillman, Maxine Willard, Stephanie Spruill (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Gene Schulatti. Recording information: Fort Knox Studio, Los Angeles. Photographers: Jim McCray; Bobby Holland . Arranger: Willie Hutch. Willie Hutch was a successful behind-the-scenes man in R&B and funk during the early '70s, serving as a staff producer and songwriter at Motown Records, penning tunes for the Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and the Miracles, and scoring the hit movies Foxy Brown and The Mack before he launched a solo career. After cutting a handful of albums for Motown, Hutch jumped ship for Whitfield Records, a label founded by legendary Motown producer Norman Whitfield, and 1980's Midnight Dancer was his second and last album for Whitfield. Recorded when disco was still riding high on the charts, Midnight Dancer is devoted to polished but soulful dance grooves, as well as romantic slow jams like "Kelly Green" and "Never Let You Be Without Love" and a modern-day testimony of faith in "Everyday Love." While coming near the end of disco's first run of popularity in the United States, Midnight Dancer shows that artists like Willie Hutch were still burning up the dancefloor with style and panache. ~ Mark Deming