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Alicia Bridges - Play It As It Lays album

Alicia Bridges - Play It As It Lays album

  • Performer: Alicia Bridges
  • Genre: Electronic / Soulful music
  • Title: Play It As It Lays
  • Released: 1979
  • Style: Downtempo, Soul, Disco
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1544 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1863 mb
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  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 206

Description

The title track, and first single, from her 2nd album, "Play It As It Lays". This song never charted in the US, but it's still worthy of a listen.

Alicia Bridges is the eponymous debut album from disco singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges, released in 1978 on Polydor Records. The album featured the smash hit single, "I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round)", which, when released as a 12" single (as remixed by producer Jim Burgess, reached a peak of number 5 on the Billboard, Cash Box & Record World charts in 1978 (quickly becoming an RIAA-certified gold record for sales of over one million copies; it would now be seen as a platinum record).

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Her 1979 sophomore album Play It As It Lays and its two singles, Rex The Robot and the title track, did not chart. In 1981, Bridges released the single If You Only Knew on AVI Records. Next, she asked Hutchenson to contact Olivia Records (known as a women’s music label with an agenda of feminist solidarity and lesbian pride ). Bridges and her partner Mary LeTellier formed the label Alicia Bridges Music in 2006 and released three albums: This Girl Don’t Care in 2006, Say It Sister in 2007, and FauxDiva XX in 2008. Many of her earlier songs, including Body Heat, Play It As It Lays, Under The Cover Of Darkness and I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round) were re-recorded and included on them. Popular Alicia Bridges songs.

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Contribute to Alicia Bridges - Play It As It Lays Lyrics. Tracks related to play it as it lays - alicia bridges. More From Album: Say It Sister. i love the nightlife. learned to dance too soon.

Artist: Alicia Bridges Title: Play It As It Lays Year Of Release: 1979 Label: Polydor Genre: Downtempo, Funk, Soul, Disco Quality: WavPack (image+. Tracklist: 01 - Rex The Robot 02 - Learned To Dance Too Soon 03 - So Cozy 04 - What Would You Do If Your Heart Stopped Beating Tonight? 05 - Starchild 06 - Under The Cover Of Darkness 07 - California Sunset 08 - Play It As It Lays 09 - Cheap Affairs.

Artists Alicia Bridges Alicia Bridges We Are One. We Are One Alicia Bridges. 80 BPM. Wrong? Too Fast. Top Songs Alicia Bridges. What Would You Do If Your Heart Stopped Beating Tonight? Play It As It Lays. Under the Cover of Darkness. I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round). I Love the Night Life.

Tracklist

A1 Rex The Robot 3:45
A2 Learned To Dance Too Soon 3:50
A3 So Cozy 4:27
A4 What Would You Do If Your Heart Stopped Beating Tonight? 3:28
A5 Starchild 3:41
B1 Under The Cover Of Darkness 3:43
B2 California Sunset 4:18
B3 Play It As It Lays 4:10
B4 Cheap Affairs 5:51

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Polydor Incorporated
  • Copyright (c) – Polydor Incorporated
  • Produced For – The Lowery Group
  • Published By – Lowery Music Co. Inc.
  • Manufactured By – Polydor Incorporated
  • Marketed By – Polydor Incorporated
  • Distributed By – PolyGram Distribution
  • Recorded At – Studio One, Doraville
  • Recorded At – Record Plant, Sausalito
  • Mastered At – Masterdisk
  • Pressed By – PRC Recording Company, Compton, CA

Credits

  • Arranged By [Strings] – Wayne Mosley
  • Arranged By [Synthesizer] – Alicia Bridges, Susan Hutcheson
  • Arranged By, Piano – Dan Wall (tracks: B4)
  • Art Direction, Design – Bob Heimall*
  • Backing Vocals – Rhodes - Chalmers - Rhodes*
  • Baritone Saxophone – Steven Krupka*
  • Bass – Tom Robb
  • Bass [Acoustic] – Neal Starkey (tracks: B4)
  • Cello – Larry LeMaster
  • Drums – Al Nicholson (tracks: B4), James Stroud
  • Engineer – Alan Chinowsky
  • Engineer, Mixed By – Rodney Mills (tracks: B1), Tad Bush (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B4)
  • Executive-Producer – Bill Lowery
  • Featuring – Tower Of Power Horn Section
  • Guitar – John Fristoe, Ken Bell, Larry Byrom
  • Keyboards – Alan Feingold, Randy McCormick, Steve McRay
  • Mastered By – Bill Kipper
  • Percussion – Mickey Buckins
  • Photography By – Judy Lesta
  • Producer, Guitar – Steve Buckingham
  • Soloist, Saxophone – Jay Scott
  • Tenor Saxophone – Emilio Castillo, Lenny Pickett
  • Trumpet, Arranged By [Horns] – Greg Adams
  • Trumpet, Trombone – Mic Gillette
  • Viola – Marian Kent, Peter Bertolino
  • Violin – Ben Picone*, Martin Sauser, Oscar Pereira
  • Written-By, Backing Vocals – Alicia Bridges, Susan Hutcheson

Notes

Other pressings exist, manufactured at Keel Mfg. and another (unidentified) pressing plant.
The sleeve credits the disc mastering to Bob Ludwig but the runouts indicate the work was done by Bill Kipper.

Steve McRay appears courtesy of RCA Records
Features The Tower of Power Horn Section courtesy of Columbia Records
Horns recorded at Record Plant, Sausalito, California
Printed in U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout): PD-1-6219-AS-PRC-C-1-1 MASTERDISK-BK
  • Matrix / Runout (B Side Runout): PD-1-6219-BS-PRC-C-2-1-11 MASTERDISK-BK
  • Rights Society: BMI

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
PD-1-6219, 2391 415 Alicia Bridges Play It As It Lays ‎(LP, Album) Polydor, Polydor PD-1-6219, 2391 415 US 1979
2391 415 Alicia Bridges Play It As It Lays ‎(LP, Album) Polydor, BGO Records 2391 415 UK 1979
PD-1-6219 Alicia Bridges Play It As It Lays ‎(LP, Album, Promo, TP) Polydor PD-1-6219 US 1979
2391 415 Alicia Bridges Play It As It Lays ‎(LP, Album) Polydor 2391 415 Australasia 1979
2391 415 Alicia Bridges Play It As It Lays ‎(LP, Album) Polydor 2391 415 Scandinavia 1979

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