Dinner Music (Rotary Connection album)

Dinner Music
The members of Rotary Connection seated on a large mousetrap
Studio album by
Rotary Connection
Released1970 (1970)
RecordedNovember 1969
StudioTer-Mar, Chicago, Illinois, US
GenrePsychedelic soul
Length33:43
LanguageEnglish
LabelCadet
Producer
Rotary Connection chronology
Songs
(1969) 		Dinner Music
(1970) 		Hey, Love
(1971)

Dinner Music is a 1970 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released by Cadet Records.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 2.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Andy Kellman writing that "the only accurate prediction one could have made before going into a Rotary Connection record was that it would be unpredictable" and continued that this is "the least-uniform Rotary Connection record", which "comes off like a series of tangents with little in the way of cohesion".[1] Kellman also reviewed a single-CD compilation of Aladdin and Dinner Music, also rating it three stars, noting that this is the only way to get this music on CD, but critiquing that these are the band's two weakest albums.[2] In a review for retailers, Billboard recommended this album for having "topnotch performances" and specifically praised Minnie Riperton's vocals.[3]

"Want You to Know" peaked at 96 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Pointillism" – 0:20
  2. "We Will Be Free" (Jon Stocklin and Bobby Simms) – 3:00
  3. "Living Alone" (Stocklin) – 2:53
  4. "Lektricks #1" – 0:45
  5. "Country Things" (Stocklin) – 3:04
  6. "Quartet" (Brian Heller) – 0:58
  7. "May Our Amens Be True" (Sidney Barnes and Stocklin) – 3:00
  8. "Stormy Monday Blues" (Bob Crowder, Billy Eckstine, and Earl Hines) – 3:57
  9. "Love Me Now" (Maurice Dollison) – 2:45
  10. "Lonely Summer" (Simms) – 2:40
  11. "Amuse" (Stocklin) – 4:00
  12. "Lektricks #2" – 0:41
  13. "Merry Prankster" (Stocklin) – 2:33
  14. "Pump Effect" – 0:05
  15. "Want You to Know" (Stocklin) – 3:02

Personnel

Rotary Connection

  • Mitch Aliotta – bass vocals
  • Sidney Barnes – vocals
  • Tom Donlinger – drums
  • Judy Hauff – vocals
  • Minnie Riperton – vocals
  • Bobby Simms – guitar
  • Charles Stepney – arrangement, production

Additional personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Dinner Music". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  2. ^ Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Aladdin/Dinner Music". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  3. ^ "Album Reviews". Pop. Billboard. Vol. 82, no. 30. July 25, 1970. p. 46. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^ "Rotary Connection | Awards". AllMusic. RhythmOne. n.d. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2023.