Magicians Holiday Explained

Magicians Holiday
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	The Gap Band
Cover:	Magicians holliday cover.jpeg
Released:	1974
Studio:	Shelter Church Studio (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Genre:	Soul, funk
Length:	35:42
Label:	Shelter
Producer:	Buddy Jones
Next Title:	The Gap Band
Next Year:	1977

Magicians Holiday is the debut album by The Gap Band in 1974 on Shelter Records.

Personnel

The Gap Band

• Charles Wilson  - lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, Clavinet, organ
• Ronnie Wilson  - backing vocals, trumpet
• Robert Wilson  - backing vocals, bass
• Roscoe Smith  - drums
• O'Dell Stokes  - guitar
• Tommy Lokey  - trumpet
• Alvin Jones  - trombone
• Chris Clayton  - saxophone
• Carl Scoggins  - congas, percussions

with:

• Jamie Oldaker  - drums on "Easy Life"
• Wayne Perkins - guitar on "Bad Girl" and "Loving You Is Everything"
• Tuck Andress - guitar on "Tommy's Groove"

Technical

• Kirk Bressler - engineer
• Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff - remixing engineer
• Tom Wilkes - album design, front cover photography

Samples

• "Tommy's Groove"
  • "Ragtime"" by Brand Nubian on their One For All album.^[1]

External links

• Magicians Holiday at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brand Nubian's Ragtime sample of The Gap Band's Tommy's Groove . WhoSampled . 2012-02-29.