Togetherness (L.T.D. album) explained

Togetherness
Type:	Studio
Artist:	L.T.D.
Cover:	Togetherness album cover.jpg
Released:	May 23, 1978
Studio:	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre:	Soul, funk
Label:	A&M
Producer:	Bobby Martin
Prev Title:	Something to Love
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Devotion
Next Year:	1979

Togetherness is the fifth studio album by Los Angeles, California -based band, L.T.D., released in 1978 on the A&M label.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 3 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 18 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Holding On (When Love Is Gone)", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and "We Both Deserve Each Other's Love", which charted at No. 19 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Critical reception

The Bay State Banner wrote that "the band pays tribute to all of its influences with a ten-song outing... For those of you who are more in tune to LTD's funk offerings, there are three tunes that'll have you freakin' in a second: the appropriately entitled 'Jam', 'It's Time to be Real' and 'Together, Forever'."^[1]

Personnel

L.T.D.

• Jeffrey Osborne – lead vocals, background vocals, percussion, drums, vocal arrangements
• Lorenzo Carnegie – alto and tenor saxophones, flute
• Henry E. Davis – bass guitar, clavinet, background vocals, rhythm and horn arrangements
• James E. Davis – piano, acoustic and electric piano, clavinet, celeste, background vocals, arrangements
• John T. McGhee – electric and acoustic guitars, rhythm arrangements
• Abraham J. "Onion" Miller, Jr. – tenor and baritone saxophones
• Billy Osborne – organ, piano, acoustic and electric piano, clavinet, percussion, drums, orchestra bells, background vocals, horn and vocal arrangements, rhythm arrangements
• Jake Riley – trombone, rhythm arrangements, horn arrangements
• Carle W. Vickers – trumpet, flugelhorn, soprano saxophone, bass and C flutes, rhythm and horn arrangements

Additional musicians

• Benorce Blackmon – additional electric and acoustic guitars
• Melvin D. Webb – additional percussion, drums
• Paul Shure – string concertmaster
• Len Ron Hanks – vocal arrangements
• Zane Grey – vocal arrangements

Technical personnel

• Bobby Martin – producer, arrangements, horn arrangements, string arrangements
• Bob Hughes – engineer
• Douglas Graves – assistant engineer
• Bernie Grundman – mastering

Charts

Album

Chart (1978)	Peaks ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	18
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	3

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US	US R&B
1978	"Holding On (When Love Is Gone)"	49	1
	"We Both Deserve Each Other's Love"	107	19

Notes and References

1. News: Baker . Arthur . Breakdown . Bay State Banner . 36 . 15 June 1978 . 20.
2. Web site: http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f[0=ts_chart_artistname%3AL.T.D.&f[1]=ss_bb_type%3Achart_item&type=2&artist=L.T.D. US Charts > L.T.D.]. Billboard. 17 April 2017.