Do It All Night (album)

Do It All Night
Studio album by Curtis Mayfield
Released	August 1978[1]
Recorded	Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles; Las Vegas Recording Center, Las Vegas; Curtom Studios, Chicago
Genre	Soul, disco[2]
Length	35:31
Label	Curtom
Producer	Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Never Say You Can't Survive (1977) Do It All Night (1978) Heartbeat (1979)

Do It All Night is an album by the American musician Curtis Mayfield, released in 1978.[2] "No Goodbyes" was released as a single. "You Are, You Are" was written by Mayfield for Linda Clifford; it appears on her 1978 LP, If My Friends Could See Me Now. The album peaked at No. 52 on Billboard's Top Black Albums chart.[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul	[5]

The Globe and Mail noted that "two ballads, 'Keep Me Loving You' and 'In Love, In Love, In Love', add meat to the good side and keep Mayfield's reputation intact as the silkiest of black high tenors."[6] The Bay State Banner, in 1978, deemed the album Mayfield's worst, writing: "Imagine this superb poet making music so dumb, so uninspired in its rhythms you didn't miss the libretto that wasn't there."[7] Rolling Stone opined that "Mayfield sounds distracted or simply confused, as if he'd started a song with something in mind, forgotten what it was, but kept going anyway."[8]

Track listing

1. "Do It All Night" (Gil Askey, Curtis Mayfield) – 8:17
2. "No Goodbyes" (Askey, Mayfield) – 7:40
3. "Party, Party" (Askey, Mayfield) – 7:54
4. "Keeps Me Loving You" (Mayfield) – 3:24
5. "In Love, In Love, In Love" (Mayfield) – 4:20
6. "You Are, You Are" (Mayfield) – 3:38

Personnel

• Curtis Mayfield - lead vocals, guitar
• Keni Burke - bass
• Donelle Hagan - drums
• Henry Gibson - bongos, congas
• Gary Thompson - rhythm guitar
• Joseph "Lucky" Scott - bass
• Floyd Morris, Rich Tufo - keyboards
• The Jones Girls, Kitty Haywood and the Haywood Singers - backing vocals
• Gil Askey - arrangements

Technical

• Jim Burgess - mixing
• Ed Thrasher, John Cabalka - art direction
• Brad Kanawyer - design
• Claude Mougin - photography

References

1. Short Eyes / Do It All Night (Booklet notes by Clive Anderson). Curtis Mayfield. USA: Licensemusic. 2009.
2. Phillips, Caryl (11 Mar 1995). "A tribute to a silent prophet". The Guardian. p. 28.
3. "Curtis Mayfield". Billboard. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
4. Eder, Bruce. Do It All Night at AllMusic
5. Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 221.
6. McGrath, Paul (30 Aug 1978). "Curtis Mayfield". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
7. Freedberg, Mike (26 Oct 1978). "Soul Dog". Bay State Banner. No. 3. p. 18.
8. Tucker, Ken (5 October 1978). "Rolling Stone : Curtis Mayfield: Do It All Night : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2012.