Chaka Khan
Naughty (CD)
Warner Brothers - Black Music ol' Skool / Original album release: 1980; CD reissue: 1998 / 3385-2
CD in jewel case
LP Produced by Arif Mardin
Recorded and Mixed by Lew Hahn
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
String and Horn Arrangements by Arif Mardin
Re-Issue Produced by Kevin Tong
Digital Remastering and Engineering by Pat Kraus
- Clouds (4:28) Music & Lyrics: Nicolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
- Get Ready, Get Set (3:42) Music & Lyrics: Elison Chase, Kathy Anderson, Bill Haberman & Art Haberman
- Move Me No Mountain (4:14) Music & Lyrics: Aaron Schroeder & Jerry Ragovoy
- Nothings' Gonna Take You Away (3:42) Music & Lyrics: Debora Ash & Bill King
- So Naughty (3:56) Music by Michael Mugrage, Lyrics by Charles Fleischer & Michael Mugrage
- Too Much Love (3:53) Music & Lyrics by Andres Kastner, Dan Greer & Jeff Wilson
- All Night's All Right (4:26) Music & Lyrics by Weldon Dean Parks
- What You Did (3:58) Music & Lyrics by Chaka Khan & Mark Stevens
- Papillon (aka Hot Butterfly) (4:08) Music & Lyrics by Gregg Diamond
- Our Love's In Danger (3:36) Music & Lyrics by Nicholas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
Was driving in the car and heard, after probably 20 years, "Papillon." Consulted this website and was told that the great voice I heard singing it was, indeed, Chaka Khan. I'm not an enormous fan of Chaka Khan. Always thought she could use a little more restraint.
This album proves me wrong. Bought the whole thing just to hear "Papillon" again and was delightfully surprised to hear "Clouds." I'd danced to that song so many times; as well as "Our Love's In Danger." (Both tunes penned by Nick Ashford and Val Simpson -- in addition, the liner notes include Cissy AND Whitney Houston as background vocalists on "Clouds")
I adored Chaka's romp with the late, great Ray Charles doing "I'll Be Good To You" on Quincy Jones' "Back On The Block." It's been in rotation in two of our bars quite regularly and the customers are always asking staff "who is that singing with Ray Charles?" When I add "Clouds," and "Papillon" to the mix it'll really screw with their heads.
A peculiar karmic coincidence -- "Papillon," according to the liner notes, peaked on the Billboard R&B charts (at 22, but good enuf) just a few days before my birthday in 1980 -- one of the most memorable ones I ever had - a big party at a BIG club -- and I vividly recall dancing to that tune that evening.
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Submitted by JudyDoggie (5)
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