Pall Mall Groove

Pall Mall Groove
Studio album by
Switch
Released1977
RecordedOctober 1976
GenreR&B, funk, soul
LabelPolydor Original Germany Release
Source 1979 US re-release as Smash
Burndsman Records 2007 CD reissue of Smash
ProducerGregory Williams, Jody Sims, Darnell Wyrick, Bernd Lichters
Switch chronology
White Heat
(1975) 		Pall Mall Groove
(1977) 		Switch
(1978)
1979 US reissue as Smash

Pall Mall Groove is an album recorded by Hot Ice and first released in 1977. Hot Ice consisted of Gregory Williams, Jody Sims, Bobby DeBarge, Phillip Ingram, Tommy DeBarge, T.C. Brown, Stanley Brown, Darnell Wyrick and Arnett Hayes. Williams, Sims and Bobby DeBarge and Darnell Wyrick were formerly known as White Heat. The album appeared a year before their Motown debut as Switch. The album was commissioned by Bernd Lichters and was initially released only in Germany, Lichters' home country, through Polydor Records. The album includes a re-recording of "Funk Freak" from the previous White Heat album. It was eventually released in the US in 1979, under the group name Smash, on the MCA Records-distributed Source label. In 2007, it was released again (still renamed "Smash") on a limited edition CD through Bernd's own Burndsman Records.

Track listing

Side One:

  1. "Pall Mall Groove" (instrumental)
  2. "Anyway" (feat. Darnell Wyrick and Gregory Williams)
  3. "I'm Gonna Give (My Whole Life To Music)" (feat. Arnett Hayes)
  4. "Don't Waste My Time" (feat. T.C. Brown)

Side Two:

  1. "Where's The Party" (feat. Tommy DeBarge)
  2. "Your Love" (feat. T.C. Brown)
  3. "Please Don't Let Me Go" (feat. Bobby DeBarge)
  4. "Funk Freak" (feat. Stanley Brown)

References

  • Gonzales, Michael A. (October 2007). "Broken Dreams". Vibe. pp. 108–115.