Track Listing

1. We Can Work It Out
2. What'cha Gonna Do For Me
3. I Know You I Live You
4. Any Old Sunday
5. We Got Each Other
6. And The Melody Lingers On (A Night In Tunisia)
7. Night Moods
8. Heed The Warning
9. Father He Said
10. Fate
11. I Know You I Live You (1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64863 in Music
• Released on: 1996-04-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

dated, but that's not a problem
Featuring the Brecker Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Steve Ferrone (Average White Band & countless sessions) this is not an album EWF fans will want to be missing.

The vocals are exemplary soul/funk wailing in the style Chaka has accustomed us to. The band are as tight as it gets, with just the greatest grooves.

All concerned are said to be proud of these sessions. There is a fire that the greatest albums possess here - all are clearly having one fine time.

Why isn't this as well known as "Let's Get It On" or "Talking Book"?

Buy it - you'll love it!

Definitely a classic
This is one of the first soul albums I bought and it was my favourite album for a long time. It has a fantastic track listing, of which the best are:
We Can Work It Out
What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
I Know You, I Live You
And The Melody Still Lingers On (Night In Tunisia)
and Fate
Even though it was only a year after "Naughty" the recording has aged better, the sound is really clear today and it has really broad tone. The musicians are fantastic, Chaka is amazing as is Anthony Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie Hancock are of course also fantastic

In a class of it's own
This 1981 album from Chaka is, for me, a standout offering; This album was, as far as i'm aware, the first time Chaka and Arif Mardin introduced a jazzier feel into one of her pop albums. You simply could not find this chemistry between band members and a vocalist anywhere else - they feed off each others energy and the excitement comes across in boundless joy and energy. Another reviewer commented that you can clearly hear everyone is having a fine time!
Starting off with a Beatles cover, Chaka makes it her own - her cover versions are always completely moulded to her styling and nothing like the original. I know You, I live you, the title track, "Fate" (as sampled by Stardust "music sounds better with you") this album is spilling over with a charm like no other album by a musical genius.