Aladdin (Rotary Connection album) explained

Aladdin
Type:	studio
Artist:	Rotary Connection
Cover:	Rotary Connection - Aladdin.jpg
Alt:	The band members photographed standing on the end of an oil lamp
Recorded:	August 1968
Studio:	Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, US
Genre:	Psychedelic soul, Progressive rock, Acid rock
Language:	English
Label:	Cadet
Producer:	Marshall Chess Charles Stepney
Prev Title:	Rotary Connection
Prev Year:	1967
Next Title:	Peace
Next Year:	1968

Aladdin is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Andy Kellman writing this album "ushered in a bigger and bolder Rotary Connection" with music that is "more streamlined and less scatterbrained without shedding the limitless approach that made its predecessor such an intrepid undertaking". Kellman also reviewed a single-CD compilation of Aladdin and Dinner Music, also rating it three stars, noting that this is the only way to get this music on CD, but critiquing that these are the band's two weakest albums. In a review for retailers, Billboard called this "another fine swinging album" and spotlighted several tracks as particularly strong and the magazine also recommended the "Paper Castle" single as being "loaded... with sales appeal".

Track listing

1. "Life Could" (Bobby Simms) – 4:10
2. "Teach Me How to Fly" (Sidney Barnes) – 3:20
3. "V.I.P." (Simms) – 3:04
4. "Let Them Talk" (Simms) – 4:25
5. "I Took a Ride (Caravan)" (Ando) – 6:06
6. "Aladdin" (Steven William Duboff and Artie Kornfeld) – 4:25
7. "Magical World" (Barnes) – 4:23
8. "I Must Be There" (Keith Anderson and Simms) – 3:34
9. "I Feel Sorry" (Mitch Aliotta) – 4:10
10. "Paper Castle" (Maurice Dollison) – 4:17

Personnel

Rotary Connection

• Mitch Aliotta – vocals
• Sidney Barnes – vocals
• Judy Hauff – vocals
• Minnie Riperton – vocals
• Bobby Simms – vocals
• Charles Stepney – vocals, arrangement, production
• Tommy Vincent – vocals

Additional personnel

• Marshall Chess – production
• Don Holden – mastering
• Hurvis, Binzer & Churchill, Inc. – cover design
• Mel Kaspar – photography
• Ron Malo – recording

Chart performance

Aladdin peaked at 176 on the Billboard 200.

See also

• List of 1968 albums