Sudan Village Explained

Sudan Village
Type:	Live Album
Artist:	Seals and Crofts
Cover:	SudanVillage200.jpg
Released:	December 1976
Genre:	Rock
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Louie Shelton
Prev Title:	Get Closer
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	One on One
Next Year:	1977

Sudan Village is a live album by Seals & Crofts. It features the single "Baby I'll Give It to You", which reached #58 on Billboard's charts, #85 on the RPM charts,^[1] and #5 on the RPM AC charts.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Sudan Village" (James Seals, Dash Crofts)
2. "Advance Guards" (Seals, Crofts)
3. "Cause You Love" (Seals)
4. "Baby I'll Give It to You" (Lana Bogan, Seals)
5. "Thunderfoot" (Seals, Crofts, Louie Shelton, Hampton Hawes, David Hungate, Jeff Porcaro)
6. "East of Ginger Trees" (Seals, Crofts)
7. "Put Your Love in My Hands" (Bogan, Walter Health)
8. "Arkansas Traveller" (Traditional)
9. "Eighth of January" (Tommy Jackson)

Charts

Chart (1976/77)	Peak position
Canada^[3]	90
US (Billboard 200)	73

Personnel

All tracks except "Baby I'll Give It to You"

• Jim Seals – lead vocals, guitar, fiddle, saxophone
• Dash Crofts – lead vocals, mandolin
• Carolyn Willis – lead vocals on "Cause You Love" and "Put Your Love in my Hands"
• Marty Walsh
• Bill Cuomo – keyboards
• Bobby Lichtig – bass
• Ralph Humphrey – drums
• Joe Porcaro – percussion
• Shirley Matthews, Marty McCall, and Becky Louis – backing vocals
• Louis Shelton – production

"Baby I'll Give It to You"

• Jim Seals – lead vocal, guitar
• Dash Crofts – mandolin
• Carolyn Willis – lead vocal
• Louis Shelton – production, guitar
• Dean Parks and Lee Ritenour – guitars
• Bill Cuomo – acoustic piano
• Joe Sample – electric piano
• Wilton Felder – bass
• Ed Greene – drums
• Joe Porcaro – percussion
• Gene Page – string arrangement

Notes and References

1. Web site: RPM Top 100 Singles - December 18, 1976.
2. Web site: RPM Top 50 MOR - January 29, 1977.
3. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - January 22, 1977.