Flying High on Your Love

Flying High On Your Love
Studio album by
Bar-Kays
ReleasedNovember 1977
Recorded1977
StudioArdent Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre
Length36:26
LabelMercury
ProducerAllen Jones
Bar-Kays chronology
Too Hot To Stop
(1976) 		Flying High On Your Love
(1977) 		Money Talks
(1978)

Flying High On Your Love is an album by the Memphis, Tennessee-based funk band the Bar-Kays.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide[2]

Released on Mercury Records in the fall of 1977, the album charted at number seven on the Billboard Soul Album charts. It was the first album by the band to be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States.[3] Considered by many fans to be the Bar-Kays' best album overall, if featured two hit singles, "Let's Have Some Fun" and "Attitudes", as well as popular track "You Can't Run Away," which received significant radio play. The album opener "Shut the Funk Up", and its closing title track "Flying High on Your Love" were equally popular. The album's success, along with their previous album, and acclaimed concert performances on tour with Parliament-Funkadelic, established the Bar-Kays as one of the key bands of the funk genre in the late 1970s.

Track listing

  • All songs written by The Bar-Kays.
  1. "Shut the Funk Up" 4:20
  2. "Standing on the Outside" 4:18
  3. "Woman of the Night" 3:50
  4. "Whatever It Is" 2:10
  5. "Can't Keep My Hands Off You" 3:20
  6. "Let's Have Some Fun" 6:05
  7. "Attitudes" 2:01
  8. "You Can't Run Away" 4:50
  9. "Flying High on Your Love" 3:50

Charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200[4] 47
Billboard US Soul[4] 7

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[5]
US
R&B
1978 "Attitudes" 22
"Let's Have Some Fun" 11

Samples

Eazy-E sampled "Let's Have Some Fun" on his song "No More ?'s" on his debut album Eazy-Duz-It in 1988.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hanson, Amy. The Bar Kays: Flying High On Your Love > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  2. ^ The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 23.
  3. ^ Gordon, Ellen A. (22 Sep 1993). "Bar-Kays Are Back and Real Funky, Too". New Pittsburgh Courier. No. 76. p. B1.
  4. ^ a b "The Bar Kays US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  5. ^ "The Bar Kays US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-06-14.