Uptown Festival

Uptown Festival
Studio album by Shalamar
Released	April 12, 1977
Genre	R&B
Length	38:30
Label	Soul Train Records
Producer	Dick Griffey, Don Cornelius, Simon Soussan
Shalamar chronology
Uptown Festival (1977) Disco Gardens (1978)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	[1]

Uptown Festival is the first album credited to American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1977 on the Soul Train label. (The album was in fact recorded by session singers). Uptown Festival peaked at #22 on the US R&B chart and #48 on the Billboard Albums chart.

The title track, a medley of ten Motown classics sung over a 1970s disco beat, was a hit in both the USA and the UK.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo"	Norma Toney, Andre Williams	4:04
2.	"Beautiful Night"	Jimmy Thomas	5:20
3.	"Uptown Festival" ("Going to a Go-Go" / "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" / "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" / "Stop! In the Name of Love" / "It's the Same Old Song" / "The Tears of a Clown" / "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" / "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" / "Baby Love" / "He Was Really Saying Somethin'")	Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin, Pete Moore / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Holland–Dozier–Holland, Sylvia Moy / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Norman Whitfield, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Eddie Holland	8:52

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"High on Life"	Don Cornelius	3:42
5.	"Ooh Baby, Baby"	Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore	3:48
6.	"You Know"	Don Cornelius	3:59
7.	"Forever Came Today"	Holland–Dozier–Holland	5:55

Singles

"Uptown Festival Part 1" (US Hot 100 #25, US R&B #10, UK #30)
"Ooo Baby Baby" (US R&B #59)

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Shalamar – Uptown Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved December 25, 2014.

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