Albums Produced by Leon Huff - Ship Ahoy, a Brand New Me, Gonna Take a Miracle, Back Stabbers, I'm in Love Again, So Full of Love (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Ship Ahoy, a Brand New Me, Gonna Take a Miracle, Back Stabbers, I'm in Love Again, So Full of Love, Wake up Everybody, All Things in Time, When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All, the Jacksons, Identify Yourself, Travelin' at the Speed of Thought, Goin' Places, Message in the Music, Teddy Pendergrass, Sit Down and Talk to Me, Family Reunion, Unmistakably Lou, Survival, Let Me Be Good to You, Life Is a Song Worth Singing, the Ice Man Cometh, the Spirit's in It, International. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ship Ahoy (album) - The songs on Ship Ahoy balance the romantic with the politically and socially conscious. In its review of the 2003 re-issue, Rolling Stone noted that the album's "main achievement was proving that it was indeed possible to be thoughtful and articulate without losing your funk." The album's lead single was "Put Your Hands Together," a song urging cooperation and optimistic prayer for "a better day to come." Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One, describes the song as "fairly standard musically," "with a strong gospel feel." The second single, "For the Love of Money," is a protest against materialism with a groove that Rolling Stone described as "downright orgiastic." The song was written around a bass line composed by Anthony Jackson, which in 2005 Bass Player Magazine described as "landmark." Bass Player went on to note that the song has "become one of the most recycled singles ever, sampled continually by rappers, and appearing on over 75 compilation CDs, numerous movie soundtracks, and, most recently, the theme for TV's The Apprentice." The album's title song, "Ship Ahoy," was built around the theme of African captives being tran...http: //booksllc.net/?id=18919532