Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)

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 features the hit singles "Wake Up Everybody" and "Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". "Don't Leave Me This Way", which would be reinterpreted two years later by Thelma Houston, was a hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #5. The lead vocal on the closing album track, "Searching for a Love", was performed virtually solo by Sharon Paige, who also performed duet duties with Pendergrass and Melvin on the song "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good."

The album was remastered and reissued with a bonus track, a Tom Moulton remixed version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", in 2008 by Legacy Recordings.

Track listing

Personnel

• Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals
• Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching for a Love"
• MFSB – music
• Edward Soyka – illustrations, artwork

Charts

Singles

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1976

References

External links

• Wake Up Everybody at Discogs (list of releases)

1. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
2. Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song)
3. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes discography
4. Wake Up Everybody
5. Wake Up Everybody (2004 album)
6. Teddy Pendergrass
7. Don't Leave Me This Way
8. Lloyd Parks (R&B singer)
9. Bernard Wilson (singer)
10. Wake Up! (John Legend and the Roots album)
11. Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!
12. To Be True
13. McFadden & Whitehead
14. Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
15. Nick Scotti
16. Life (soundtrack)
17. Philadelphia International Records
18. Fabulous (Jaheim song)
19. Cary Gilbert
20. Gamble and Huff