Any Way You Like It
| Any Way You Like It | |
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| Studio album by Thelma Houston | |
| Released | Oct 28, 1976 |
| Recorded | 1972–76 |
| Genre | R&B, Urban, Disco |
| Label | Motown Records |
| Producer | Hal Davis, Michael L. Smith, Michael Sutton, Harold Johnson, Joe Porter, Clayton Ivey, Terry Woodford |
Any Way You Like It is the fourth album by Thelma Houston, released late October 1976 on Tamla Records.[1] The album features energetic disco songs with fierce vocal performances by Houston on side 1, while side 2 focuses on ballads. It includes the major hit single, "Don't Leave Me This Way", Hosuton's remake of the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes song, zooming to No. 1 in the US charts. In the US, "If It's The Last Thing I Do", a track originally recorded in 1972, was chosen for the second single release on MoWest, while Europe had an edited version of the Stevie Wonder cover, "I Don't Know Why I Love You".
A re-recorded version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" was #19 on the dance charts in December 1994.
The album was arranged by Arthur G. Wright, Michael L. Smith, Harold Johnson, Paul Riser, Clayton Ivey, Ted Stovall and Terry Woodford.
Track listing
- "Any Way You Like It" (Michael L. Smith, Thelma Houston, Anthony D. Jones)
- "Don't Leave Me This Way" (Carry Gilbert, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff)
- "I Don't Know Why I Love You" (Don Hunter, Lula Hardaway, Paul Riser, Stevie Wonder)
- "Come To Me" (Don Daniels, Jermaine Jackson, Kathy Wakefield)
- "Don't Make Me Pay (For Another Girl's Mistake)" (Michael L. Smith)
- "Sharing Something Perfect Between Ourselves" (Andrew Porter, Harold Johnson)
- "If It's The Last Thing I Do" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin)
- "Differently" (Ralph Graham)
2015 Bonus Tracks
- "Do You Know Where You're Going To" (Michael Masser, Gerry Goffin)
- "Together" (Sawyer, Masser)
- "Today Will Soon Be Yesterday" (Sawyer, Sutton)
- "You've Been Doing Wrong For So Long" (Johnson, Woodford)
- "One Out Of Every Six" (Censored Version) (Miller, Schlatter, Goldstein) - From the MGM Motion Picture, "Norman ... Is That You?"
- "Don't Leave Me This Way" (US Tamla single edit)
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