Forever (Kool & the Gang album)

Forever
Studio album by Kool and the Gang
Released November 3, 1986
Genre AC
Urban
Dance-pop
Length 48:59
Label Mercury
Producer Kool and the Gang, Khalis Bayyan, I.B.M.C.
Kool and the Gang chronology
Emergency
(1984)
Forever
(1986)
Sweat
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Forever is the seventeenth studio album by the funk band Kool and the Gang, released in 1986. The album included two major hits on the US Hot 100 Chart: "Victory" (US #10, R&B #2) and "Stone Love" (US #10, R&B #4). Two further singles, "Holiday" and "Special Way" were also released from the album; the former reached the top ten on the R&B Chart, the latter hit reached #6 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[2]

After this album, lead vocalist James "J.T." Taylor would leave the group for a solo career. He would return in 1996 for the State of Affairs album.

Track listing

Side 1
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Victory"  James "J.T." Taylor, Khalis Bayyan 4:37
2. "I.B.M.C."  Taylor, Bayyan 4:14
3. "Stone Love"  Charles Smith, Taylor, Kool & the Gang 4:37
4. "Forever"  Dwania Kyles, Taylor, Bayyan 5:03
Side 2
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Holiday"  Curtis Williams, Taylor, Kool & the Gang 4:12
2. "Peacemaker"  George Brown, Taylor, Kool & the Gang 4:35
3. "Broadway"  Williams, Taylor, Kool & the Gang 3:40
4. "Special Way"  Kyles, Brown, Taylor, Kendall Stubbs, Bayyan 5:26
5. "God's Country"  Gary Curtis Culpepper, Taylor 5:04

Personnel

Production
  • Recorded by – Alex Williams, I.B.M.C. Group Processing, Jay Biolic, Kendal Stubbs, Khalis Bayyan, Peter Ibrahim Duarte, Randy Weber
  • Engineer – Kendal Stubbs
  • Assistant engineers – Peter Ibrahim Duarte, Roger Talkov
  • Second engineer - Hit Factory – Craig Vogel
  • Mixed by – Kendal Stubbs, Khalis Bayyan
  • Mastered by – Herb "Pump" Powers, Jr.
  • Producer – I.B.M.C. Group Processing, Khalis Bayyan, Kool & the Gang
  • Executive producer – Gabe Vigorito

Art
  • Art direction – Bill Levy
  • Art design – George Corsillo
  • Cover photography – Gil Gilbert
  • Fashions by – Carl Davis for Lemans Designs
  • Make up – Rosalyn Burns-Brock

References

  1. Hanson, Amy. "Kool & the Gang: Forever > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  2. "Forever > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles" at AllMusic. Retrieved 31 October 2011.


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