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Sylvester - Living For The City album

Sylvester - Living For The City album

  • Performer: Sylvester
  • Genre: Electronic / Soulful music
  • Title: Living For The City
  • Released: 1986
  • Style: Disco, Garage House
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1836 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1341 mb
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  • Rating: 4.3
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Description

From Sylvester's final album - Released in 1986.

Album · 2011 · 9 Songs.

Neatly formatted, chords with bass notes, full chord legend and playing tips included.

Sylvester is the third studio album by Sylvester. It was his first disco album in the series of three that were recorded and released by Fantasy Records in the late 1970s. The album was issued with the alternative title Over and Over in France. Two singles were issued from the album.

Financed by A&M Records, the album featured a cover of Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell's song "Superstar," which had been a recent hit single for The Carpenters; nevertheless, A&M felt that the work was not commercially viable and declined to release the album. For the album, Sylvester and his manager Dennis Lopez had assembled a group of heterosexual white. Sylvester named this first album Scratch My Flower due to a gardenia-shaped scratch-and-sniff sticker adhered to the cover, although it was instead released under the title of Sylvester and his Hot Band. The album consisted primarily of covers of songs by artists such as James Taylor, Ray Charles, Neil Young, and Leiber and Stoller. Larger companies employ executives who sit behind their office desks, living off past achievements.

Living For the City Lyrics. A boy is born in hard time Mississippi Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty His parents give him love and affection To keep him strong moving in the right direction Living just enough, just enough for the city. His father works some days for fourteen hours And you can bet he barely makes a dollar His mother goes to scrub the floors for many And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny Living just enough, just enough for the city (yeah)

The album it came from Innervisions won the Grammy Award for the Album of the Year. Wonder asked one of the janitors at the studio to say the "Get into that cell, ni-er" line. Public Enemy later sampled the line on "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" a track on their 1989 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back album. Wonder played all the instruments on this song and also did all the vocals And on December 23rd, 1973 it reached (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's R&B Singles chart.

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Although much of the rest of the album sticks closer to the soul ballad fixation of the debut, Step II is rightfully considered a disco masterpiece.

Actual duration of Over And Over is 9:31, not 7:14 as mentioned on label.

Tracklist

A Living For The City 4:00
B Living For The City (Instrumental) 4:00

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Pathé Marconi S.A.
  • Distributed By – Pathé Marconi S.A.
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Megatone Records
  • Printed By – Offset France
  • Published By – Jobete Music
  • Published By – CBS Songs

Credits

  • Arranged By [Vocal & Choir Arrangements] – Sylvester
  • Backing Vocals – Jeanie Tracy, Lynette Hawkins Stevens*, Tramaine Hawkins
  • Choir [Voices From] – The Love Center Choir
  • Engineer [Mix] – Bill Thompson
  • Engineer [Recording] – Ken Kessie
  • Mixed By – Marty Blecman
  • Piano – Walter Hawkins
  • Producer – Ken Kessie, Morey Goldstein, Sylvester
  • Written-By – Stevie Wonder

Notes

(p)1986 Megatone Records.
Editions: Jobete Music / CBS Songs.
Fabrication et distribution exclusive Pathé-Marconi S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5099920109776
  • Distribution Code: PM 102
  • Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
MT-138 Sylvester Living For The City ‎(12", Maxi) Megatone Records MT-138 US 1986
020562 Sylvester Living In The City (Dance Version) ‎(12") Warner Bros. Records, WEA Records Limited 020562 New Zealand 1986
0-20562 Sylvester Living For The City (Dance Version) ‎(12", Single) Warner Bros. Records 0-20562 Australia 1986
TI - 71035 Sylvester Living For The City (Viviendo En La Ciudad) ‎(12") Trebol TI - 71035 Mexico 1986
134.739 Sylvester Living For The City ‎(7", Single) Injection Disco Dance Label 134.739 Netherlands 1986

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