Flying High on Your Love explained

Flying High On Your Love
Type:Studio album
Artist:Bar-Kays
Cover:Flying High On Your Love.jpg
Released:November 1977
Recorded:1977
Studio:Ardent Recording Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Length:36:26
Label:Mercury
Producer:Allen Jones
Prev Title:Too Hot To Stop
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Money Talks
Next Year:1978

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

Reception

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.[1] 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

  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[2] 47
Billboard US Soul7

Singles

YearSingleChart positions[3]
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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Gordon . Ellen A. . Bar-Kays Are Back and Real Funky, Too . New Pittsburgh Courier . 76 . 22 Sep 1993 . B1.
  2. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p54079/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}} The Bar Kays US albums chart history]. allmusic.com. 2011-06-14.
  3. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p54079/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} The Bar Kays US singles chart history]. allmusic.com. 2011-06-14.