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Blue Magic (album)

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History
Track listing
Personnel
Production
Charts
References
External links

{{Infobox album
| name = Blue Magic
| type = Studio
| artist = Blue Magic
| cover = bluemagic1.jpg
| alt =
| released = January 1974
| recorded = Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Philadelphia soul
| length = 43:35 (original version)
56:25 (expanded reissue)
| label = Atco
| producer = Norman Harris, Alan Rubens, Steven Bernstein
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = The Magic of the Blue
| next_year = 1974
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 =Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}^[1]
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = B+^[2]
}}

Blue Magic is the eponymous debut album by American soul group Blue Magic, produced by Norman Harris and released in 1974 on the Atco label.

History

Blue Magic's debut single "Spell" was released in November 1972 and work on the album began in early 1973. Two more singles, "Look Me Up" and "Stop to Start" were released during 1973; all performed respectably on the R&B chart with "Stop to Start" also crossing over into the lower reaches of the pop chart. The album was released on January 9, 1974, followed shortly thereafter by a fourth single, "Sideshow", the lush, dreamy and loss-filled atmosphere of which immediately caught on and became a major hit, topping the R&B chart and reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Another track on the album was the lengthy "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely", which Ronnie Dyson had taken into the R&B top 30 in July 1973, then became a bigger hit for New York group The Main Ingredient, whose version reached both the R&B and pop top 10 at around the same time Blue Magic was released. Blue Magic peaked at No. 4 on the R&B album chart and No. 45 on the pop chart.

Music for the album was provided by Sigma Sound Studios' legendary house band MFSB. Bobby Eli, co-composer of "Sideshow" and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely", who worked as a guitarist on the album, stated in the liner notes of the 2007 reissue of the album that he believed that Harris was equally at home with uptempo material as with ballads and, citing the tracks "Look Me Up" and "Welcome to the Club" as classic examples of the proto-disco sound of 1973-74, expressed his opinion that Harris' expertise in this field gave Blue Magic the ability to deliver convincing uptempo tracks in a way which largely eluded other Philadelphia soul groups with whom they are usually bracketed, notably The Stylistics and The Delfonics.

Blue Magic was reissued by Rhino Records in 2007, including two B-sides previously unavailable on CD and a remix of "Look Me Up"

Track listing

{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Sideshow
| writer1 = Bobby Eli, Vinny Barrett
| length1 = 4:06
| title2 = Look Me Up
| writer2 = Norman Harris, Allan Felder
| length2 = 5:54
| title3 = What's Come Over Me
| writer3 = Ted Mills
| length3 = 4:09
| title4 = Just Don't Want to Be Lonely
| writer4 = Bobby Eli, Vinny Barrett, John Freeman
| length4 = 7:00
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title5 = Stop to Start
| writer5 = Jimmy Grant, Allan Felder
| length5 = 3:18
| title6 = Welcome to the Club
| writer6 = Norman Harris, Allan Felder
| length6 = 5:05
| title7 = Spell
| writer7 = Ted Mills
| length7 = 4:15
| title8 = Answer to My Prayer
| writer8 = Norman Harris, Allan Felder
| length8 = 3:15
| title9 = Tear It Down
| writer9 = Ted Mills, Allan Felder
| length9 = 5:27
}}{{Track listing
| collapsed = yes
| headline = 2007 remastered reissue bonus tracks
| title10 = Guess Who
| note10 = B-side of "Spell"
| writer10 = Mills
| length10 = 3:37
| title11 = Where Have You Been
| note11 = B-side of "Stop to Start"
| writer11 = Mills, Felder
| length11 = 3:20
| title12 = Look Me Up
| note12 = Tom Moulton Remix
| writer12 = Harris, Felder
| length12 = 5:56
}}

Personnel

Blue Magic

Vernon Sawyer, Richard Pratt, Wendell Sawyer, Keith Beaton, Ted Mills – vocals

Musicians

Bobby Eli, Norman Harris, Ted Cohen, Roland Chambers – guitars
Ted Mills, Ron Kersey, Cotton Kent – pianos
Ronnie Baker, Jimmy Grant, Lee Smith, Jimmy DeJulio – bass
Earl Young, Larry James – drums
Larry Washington – percussion
Vince Montana – vibes
Don Renaldo and his Strings and Horns – strings & horns accompaniment

Production

Norman Harris – producer, remixing, arrangement
Alan Rubens, Steven Bernstein – producers, executive producers
Bruce Gable – executive producer
Joe Tarsia, Kenny Present, Don Murray, Jay Mark, Carl Paruolo – recording engineers
Vince Montana – arrangement
Carl Helm – vocal arrangement

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak ^[3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	45
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	4

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US ^[3]	US R&B ^[3]	US A/C ^[3]
1973	"Spell"	—	30	—
	"Look Me Up"	—	36	—
	"Stop to Start"	74	14	—
1974	"Sideshow"	8	1	35

References

1. ^{{Allmusic |class=album |id=r960205 |tab=review |label=Blue Magic review |first=Alex |last=Henderson |accessdate=2011-10-21}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: B|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=70|accessdate=February 21, 2019}}
3. ^¹²³{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0000053428|tab=awards|title=Blue Magic > US Charts|accessdate=2016-07-11}}

External links

{{discogs master|188420|Blue Magic}}

5 : 1974 debut albums|Blue Magic (band) albums|Albums produced by Norman Harris|Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios|Atco Records albums

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