That's a Plenty (Pointer Sisters album)

That's a Plenty
Studio album by The Pointer Sisters
Released	February 1974
Recorded	Wally Heider Studios (San Francisco, California) Quadraphonic Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Western Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	R&B, soul, Funk
Length	48:25
Label	Blue Thumb
Producer	David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
The Pointer Sisters chronology
The Pointer Sisters (1973) That's a Plenty (1974) Live at the Opera House (1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

That's a Plenty is the second album released by Oakland family girl group the Pointer Sisters in 1974 on the Blue Thumb label.

History

Mixing the Pointers' brand of soul with rollicking blues numbers and jazz covers, the album also included the country-flavored "Fairytale." The song became their second Top 40 hit and crossed over to the country charts, enabling the group to become the first African-American vocal group to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. The album was the second by the group to be certified gold. The album was remastered and issued on CD in 2006 by Hip-O Select.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bangin' on the Pipes" / "Steam Heat" (Medley)	Bruce Good, Jeffrey Cohen / Richard Adler, Jerry Ross	5:39
2.	"Salt Peanuts"	Good, Cohen / Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke	5:10
3.	"Grinning in Your Face"	Son House	4:49
4.	"Shaky Flat Blues"	June Pointer, Anita Pointer, Bonnie Pointer	4:41
5.	"That's a Plenty" / "Surfeit, U.S.A." (Medley)	Ray Gilbert, Lew Pollack / Good, Cohen	3:42

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Little Pony"	Neal Hefti, Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert	4:43
7.	"Fairytale"	A. Pointer, B. Pointer	5:04
8.	"Black Coffee"	Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke	6:07
9.	"Love in Them There Hills"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Roland Chambers	8:30

Personnel

• Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Bonnie Pointer, June Pointer – vocals
• Gaylord Birch – drums
• John Neumann – bass
• Tom Salisbury – keyboards, silverton accordion on track 1
• David Grisman – mandolin on track 1
• Herbie Hancock – piano on tracks 2, 6, electric piano, clavinet, arp synthesizer on track 9
• Ron McClure – bass on tracks 2, 4, 6
• Bonnie Raitt – slide guitar on track 3
• Jack Viertell, Jesse Ed Davis – electric guitar on track 3
• Paul Jackson – bass on tracks 3, 9
• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet solo on track 4
• Britt Woodman – trombone solo on track 4
• John Shine – guitar on track 4
• Jim Rothermel – clarinet on track 5
• Floyd Cooley – tuba on track 5
• Gordon Messick – trombone on track 5
• James Goodwin – trumpet on "track 5
• David Briggs – piano on track 7
• Norbert Putnam – bass on track 7
• Weldon Myrick – pedal steel guitar on track 7
• Ken Buttrey – drums on track 7
• Robert Thompson – acoustic guitar on track 7
• Norman Spicher – fiddle on track 7
• Bill Summers – African talking drum, shekere, congas on track 9

Production

• David Rubinson & Friends, Inc. – producer
• Tom Salisbury, Jeffrey Cohen, Bruce Good – associate producers
• Jeremy Zatkin, Fred Catero, David Rubinson – recording engineers
• George Horn, Phil Brown – mastering engineers
• David Rubinson – arrangements on "Grinning in Your Face" and "Black Coffee"
• Norman Landsberg, Jeffrey Cohen, Bruce Good – vocal arrangement on "Salt Peanuts"
• Randy Tuten – cover art
• Herb Greene – art direction, photography

Chart positions

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	82
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	33

References

1. Planer, Lindsay. That's a Plenty review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-11-13.

External links

• That's a Plenty at Discogs