War
The World Is A Ghetto (LP)
United Artists Records (US) / 1972 / UAS 5652
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record
Genre: Dance
Producers: Jerry Goldstein, Lonnie Jordan, & Howard Scott for Far Out Productions Inc.
Album Concept: Lee Oskar
Album Design: Howard Miller
Composers: WAR
WAR cast:
Howard Scott: vocals, percussion, guitar
B.B. Dickerson: vocals, percussion, bass
Lonnie Jordan: vocals, percussion, organ, piano
Harold Brown: vocals, percussion, drums
Papa Dee Allen: vocals, percussion, congas, bongos
Charles Miller: vocals, percussion, flute, sax
Lee Oskar: vocals, percussion, harmonica
Side 1
1. The Cisco Kid / 4:35
2. Where Was You At / 3:25
3. City, Country, City / 13:18
Side 2
1. Four Cornered Room / 8:30
2. The World Is A Ghetto / 10:10
3. Beetles In The Bog / 3:51
For many, including me, this one of the best WAR albums, if not THE best. "The Cisco Kid" & "Where Was You At" are great funk tracks; "The World Is A Ghetto" is a true masterpiece. If you're into early Kool & The Gang, Roy Ayers, EWF, and Mandrill, you need this album...
Submitted by KoolChris (178)
Again I get the privilege of being the first to praise this album. As I remember now, I think I might have been wrong. I previously called THE TRAMMPS and ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEART the first DISCO group, and the FIRST DISCO RECORD. Looking back, maybe that honor belongs to WAR! CISCO KID, Me and BABY BROTHER, SPILL THE WINE, LOWRIDER might all have come before ZING. But they didn't call it DISCO, but rather soul, funk or R&B. On this album from 1972, before ZING, CISCO KID had to be a floor jammer. I played it some when I started deejaying in DISCOS a year later as part of a WAR set. Always packed the floor!! SLIPPIN INTO DARKNESS is a CLASSIC!! The radio jumped on it very fast, and for many months. Every house party always played it for a ten minute grind dance!! I love this album. On my scale from 1-10, it gets a TEN!!