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Body Heat (1974)

Where the lyrics of Body Heat take you, and where it was really made.

Quincy Jones' highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 peaked only at number six, yet it also topped the Billboard soul album chart after starting at number 40.

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Album story

Overview

• Body Heat: studio album by Quincy Jones
• Released 26 April 1974 on A&M Records
• Predominantly soul and pop in style
• Co-produced and mixed by Jones himself
• Nine songs on the album
• Four of the songs were co-written by Jones
• Includes the standard Everything Must Change, written and sung by Benard Ighner
• Cover image credited to Hatami's Red & Black Collection

Background

• Singles taken from the album: Soul Saga (Song of the Buffalo Soldier), If I Ever Lose This Heaven, and Body Heat
• Jones' highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number six
• The album is a showcase of Jones' talents as arranger, producer and composer

Recording

• A large group of session players appears on the credits, covering guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and horns
• Guest jazz players include Hubert Laws, Frank Rosolino and Herbie Hancock
• Vocalists include Leon Ware, Minnie Riperton, Al Jarreau, Tom Bahler and Benard Ighner
• Al Jarreau adds quiet vocal sounds at the start of Soul Saga
• Jones plays horns and sings on the record

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Born March 14, 1933 in Chicago; died November 3, 2024 in Los Angeles at age 91.
• American record producer, musician and composer; a career spanning seven decades.
• Received 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award; seven Academy Award nominations.
• Began as a jazz arranger and conductor in the 1950s, touring with Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie.
• Produced all four million-selling singles for Lesley Gore in the early-to-mid 1960s, including "It's My Party".
• Arranged and conducted for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and others.
• Scored The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job and The Color Purple.
• Produced Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.
• Produced and conducted "We Are the World" (1985) to raise famine relief for Ethiopia.
• Founded Qwest Productions and later Qwest TV, a jazz subscription video service.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Billboard: called the album an exceptional set from a jazz-pop master, saying Jones may have made his most commercial effort without any loss of quality
• Record World: gave the album its Hit of the Week certificate and described it as an innovative release from this musical master
• Cash Box: said Jones had conquered nearly every musical frontier and filled an emotional eternity within a musical heartbeat

Records

• Peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album there
• Debuted at number 40 on Billboard's soul album chart in the week of 8 June 1974
• Reached number one on the soul album chart after five weeks, his first album to top that list

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Soul Saga's title alludes to the Buffalo Soldiers, Black cavalry regiments of the US Army that served in the American West from 1867 to 1896.
• Al Jarreau adds quiet vocal sounds at the start of Soul Saga and is more audible on If I Ever Lose This Heaven, which features lead vocals by Leon Ware and Minnie Riperton.
• Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws and Frank Rosolino appear as special jazz guests.
• The album includes the standard Everything Must Change, written and sung by Benard Ighner.
• The sample credits list later songs, including 2Pac's How Do U Want It.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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