Keep On Moving Straight Ahead Explained

Keep On Moving Straight Ahead
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Lakeside
Cover:	Lakeside - keep on covering straight ahead.jpg
Released:	1981
Studio:	Kendun Recorders (Burbank, California)
Genre:	Funk Boogie Soul
Label:	SOLAR Records (BXL1-3974)
Producer:	Lakeside
Prev Title:	Fantastic Voyage
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Your Wish Is My Command
Next Year:	1982

Keep On Moving Straight Ahead is the fifth album by American funk band Lakeside. Released in 1981 on the SOLAR Records label, it contains songs left over from sessions for their previous albums that were recorded while SOLAR was distributed by RCA Records (SOLAR switched distribution from RCA to Elektra Records in 1981). RCA also released similar albums of left over tracks in 1981 for other artists on the SOLAR label.^[1]

The album entered the Billboard pop and R&B charts in 1981.^[2]

Track listing

Side B

Personnel

Lakeside

• Tiemeyer McCain – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Thomas Shelby – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Mark Adam Wood, Jr. – lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards
• Otis Stokes – lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar
• Norman Beavers – keyboards
• Stephen Shockley – lead guitar, rhythm guitar
• Marvin Craig – bass guitar
• Fred Alexander, Jr. – drums, percussion
• Fred Lewis – percussion

Additional musicians

• David Crawford – string arrangements and conductor
• Janice Gower – string contractor

Production

• Dick Griffey – executive producer
• Lakeside – producers, arrangements, album concept
• Taavi Mote – recording, mixing
• Les Cooper – additional engineer
• Steve MacMillan – additional engineer
• Bob Winard – additional engineer
• Wally Traugott – mastering at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California)
• Dina Andrews – production director
• Henry Vizcarra – art direction
• Warren Hile – illustration
• Jay Pope – dust sleeve photography
• Ron Slenzak – inner sleeve photography

Chart performance

Charts (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top LPs^[3]	109
U.S. Soul LPs	32

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lakeside - Keep On Moving Straight Ahead. 1981 . Discogs. 2011-08-31.
2. Book: Whitburn , Joel . 1993. Joel Whitburn's top pop albums, 1955-1992: compiled from Billboard's pop album charts, 1955-1992. Record Research Inc., 1993 (originally) the University of California. California, U.S.. 0-89820-093-8. 405.
3. Web site: Lakeside - Keep on Moving Straight Ahead. . Rovi Corporation. 2011-08-31.