Sounds Of Blackness - Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum

Artist: Sounds Of Blackness

Label: A&M Records, Perspective Records

Catalogue No: 549 009-1, 549 009-1

Format: 2× Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: UK & Europe

Year: 1994

Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul

Style: RnB/Swing, House, Gospel, Soul, Choral

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Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum

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Notes

Rap on track C2 performed by Mufundisi Joseph Young. Track D3 is a spoken-word interpretation of the poem of the same name, written by Langston Hughes.

All songs recorded ... and mixed ... at Flyte Tyme Studios, Edina, MN.

Tracks A1, A3, A5, B1, C3, D4, D5
© 1994 New Perspective Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP).
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Tracks A2, D6
Contains samples from "Impeach The President" (R. Hammond) published by Street Tuff Music (ASCAP) and performed by The Honeydrippers. Courtesy of Tuff City Records.
© 1994 New Perspective Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP).
Produced ... for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Track A4
Contains samples from "Pain" (G. Webster, A. Noland, W. Morrison, M. Jones, L. Bonner, R. Middlebrook, M.R. Pierce, N. Napier) published by Bridgeport Music, Inc. (BMI) and performed by The Ohio Players, courtesy of Westbound Records.
© 1994 Flyte Tyme Tunes (ASCAP)/Bridgeport Music, Inc. (BMI).
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Track A6
Contains samples from "Walk On By" (B. Bacharach, H. David) published by New Hidden Valley Music and Casa David & performed by Isaac Hayes, courtesy of Fantasy, Inc.
© 1994 Flyte Tyme Tunes/New Hidden Valley Music/Casa David (ASCAP)
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Tracks B2 to B4, C2
© 1994 Flyte Tyme Tunes/New Perspective Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP).
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Tracks C1, D2
© 1994 Flyte Tyme Tunes (ASCAP).
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Track C4
© 1994 New Perspective Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP).
Co-Produced ... for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Track D1
© 1940 Edward B. Marks Music Co. (BMI).
Produced and arranged for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

℗ & © 1994 Perspective Records. Manufactured and distributed by A&M Records, Inc. A&M Records Ltd are the exclusive licensees for the U.K.

Companies, etc.

Copyright (c)

Perspective Records Inc.

Lacquer Cut At

Copymasters

Licensed To

A&M Records Ltd.

Mastered At

Bernie Grundman Mastering

Mixed At

Flyte Tyme Studios

Phonographic Copyright (p)

Perspective Records Inc.

Pressed By

DFI

Produced For

Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.

Published By

New Perspective Publishing, Inc., Street Tuff Music, Flyte Tyme Tunes, Bridgeport Music, Inc., New Hidden Valley Music, Casa David, Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

Recorded At

Flyte Tyme Studios

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode:	7 31454 90091 1
Label Code:	LC 6303
Matrix / Runout:	DFI94 3 54 900091-1A1 COPYMASTERS. LONDON. MILES.	Runout side A
Matrix / Runout:	DFI94 3 54 900091-1 B1 COPYMASTERS. LONDON. MILES.	Runout side B
Matrix / Runout:	DFI94_3 54 900091-1 C1 COPYMASTERS. LONDON. MILES.	Runout side C
Matrix / Runout:	DFI943 54 900091 1 D1 COPYMASTERS. LONDON. MILES.	Runout side D
Price Code:	POL 287
Rights Society:	BIEM
Rights Society:	STEMRA

Credits

Artwork [Cover Art]

Brent Rollins

Booking

Leon Saunders & Associates

Executive-Producer

Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

Lacquer Cut By

Miles Showell

Management [Booking Manager]

Kwaku Leon Saunders

Mastered By

Brian Gardner

Mixed By

Steve Hodge [A1 to A4, A6, B2 to C2, C4 to D5]

Photography By [Sounds Of Blackness Photography]

Sandy May (2)

Recorded By

Steve Hodge

Recorded By [Assisted By]

Jeff Taylor (6)

Tracklist

Position	Title	Credits	Duration
A1	Hold On (Pt. 1)	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Renee McCall (Lead Vocals), Dave Rideau (Mixed By), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Traditional (Written-By)	1:06
A2	I'm Going All The Way	James "Big Jim" Wright (Arranged By), Ann Nesby (Arranged By [Vocals]), Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Sounds Of Blackness (Instruments [All Other Instruments]), James "Big Jim" Wright (Keyboards), Jimmy Jam (Keyboards), Ann Nesby (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer), Ann Bennett-Nesby (Written-By), James "Big Jim" Wright (Written-By)	4:52
A3	Ah Been 'Buked (Pt. 1)	Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Sounds Of Blackness (Vocals), Traditional (Written-By)	0:41
A4	I Believe	Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Sounds Of Blackness (Vocals), Andrew Noland (Written-By), Gregory Allen Webster (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Junie Morrison (Written-By), Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (Written-By), Marshall Jones (Written-By), Marvin "Merv" Pierce (Written-By), Norman Napier (Written-By), Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	4:39
A5	Hold On (Pt. 2)	Gary Hines (Arranged By), Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Instruments), Ann Nesby (Lead Vocals), Dave Rideau (Mixed By), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer), Carrie Harrington (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Core Cotton (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Geoffrey Jones (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Lisa D. Russell (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Shirley Marie Graham (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Traditional (Written-By)	1:19
A6	Everything's Gonna Be Alright	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Instruments), Billy Steele (Lead Vocals), Carrie Harrington (Lead Vocals), Core Cotton (Lead Vocals), James "Big Jim" Wright (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Ann Nesby (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Libby Turner (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Patricia Lacy (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Shirley Marie Graham (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Burt Bacharach (Written-By), Hal David (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	4:48
B1	Sun Up To Sundown	Dave Rideau (Mixed By), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Sounds Of Blackness (Vocals), Traditional (Written-By)	0:41
B2	The Lord Will Make A Way	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Stokley Williams (Drums, Percussion), Kevin Pierce (Guitar), James "Big Jim" Wright (Lead Vocals), James "Big Jim" Wright (Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Bass Synthesizer]), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Jimmy Jam (Synthesizer [Bass Synthesizer]), Carrie Harrington (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Core Cotton (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Lisa D. Russell (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Patricia Lacy (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Shirley Marie Graham (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), James "Big Jim" Wright (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	5:09
B3	He Took Away All My Pain	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jimmy Jam (Drum Programming), James "Big Jim" Wright (Electric Piano, Keyboards), Kevin Pierce (Guitar), Jimmy Jam (Keyboards), Ann Nesby (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Core Cotton (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Geoffrey Jones (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), James "Big Jim" Wright (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Lisa D. Russell (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Shirley Marie Graham (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Ann Bennett-Nesby (Written-By), James "Big Jim" Wright (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	4:46
B4	A Place In My Heart	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jeff Taylor (6) (Drum Programming), Trenon Graham (Drums), James "Big Jim" Wright (Keyboards), Ann Nesby (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Ann Bennett-Nesby (Written-By), James "Big Jim" Wright (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	6:09
C1	The Harder They Are The Bigger They Fall	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Instruments), James "Big Jim" Wright (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Ann Nesby (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Billy Steele (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Carrie Harrington (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Core Cotton (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), James "Big Jim" Wright (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Libby Turner (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Shirley Marie Graham (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), James Harris III & Terry Lewis (Written-By)	4:01
C2	The Drum (Africa To America)	Jeff Taylor (6) (Drum Programming), Mufundisi Joseph Young (Featuring), Stokley Williams (Percussion), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Jimmy Jam (Producer, Arranged By), Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Mufundisi Joseph Young (Rap), Sounds Of Blackness (Vocals), Solo (8) (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Gary Hines (Written-By), James Harris III (Written-By), Mufundisi Joseph Young (Written-By), Terry Lewis (Written-By)	2:55
	African Medley	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Gary Hines (Drum Programming, Keyboards), Dave Rideau (Mixed By), Kevin Whitlock (Percussion), Trenon Graham (Percussion), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Carrie Harrington (Written-By), Gary Hines (Written-By), Lisa D. Russell (Written-By)
C4	A Very Special Love	Billy Steele (Arranged By [Vocal Arrangements]), Carrie Harrington (Backing Vocals), Jamecia Bennett (Backing Vocals), Libby Turner (Backing Vocals), Renee J. McCall (Backing Vocals), Gary Hines (Co-producer), Jeff Taylor (6) (Drum Programming), Nate Sabin (Guitar), Soli Hughes (Guitar), Robin Berry (Harp), Billy Steele (Keyboards), James "Big Jim" Wright (Keyboards), Billy Steele (Lead Vocals), Carrie Harrington (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Marcus Wise (Tabla), Billy Steele (Written-By)	5:21
D1	Strange Fruit	Dave Rideau (Mixed By), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Jayn R. Bell (Vocals), Lewis Allan (Written-By)	2:43
D2	Black Butterfly	Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Instruments), Core Cotton (Lead Vocals), Renee J. McCall (Lead Vocals), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer, Arranged By), Carrie Harrington (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Core Cotton (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), Patricia Lacy (Vocals [Additional Vocals]), James Harris III & Terry Lewis (Written-By)	3:59
D3	You've Taken My Blues & Gone	Langston Hughes (Words By [A Poem By])	0:26
D4	Livin' The Blues	Franklin Wharton (Alto Saxophone), Sounds Of Blackness (Backing Vocals), David Wright (4) (Baritone Saxophone), Gary Hines (Drum Programming, Piano, Keyboards), LaSalle Gabriel (Guitar), Core Cotton (Lead Vocals), Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Louis J. Wilson (Tenor Saxophone), Larry Sims (2) (Trumpet), Gary Hines (Written-By)	4:13
D5	Ah Been 'Buked (Pt. 2)	Gary Hines (Producer, Arranged By), Sounds Of Blackness (Vocals), Traditional (Written-By)	0:28
D6	I'm Going All The Way (7" Radio Edit)	The Funk Mob (Mixed By), Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (Producer), Blacksmith (Remix, Producer [Additional Production]), Ann Bennett-Nesby (Written-By), James "Big Jim" Wright (Written-By)	3:44

Videos

From The 1994 Album Africa to America Journey of the Drum Performed by Sounds of Blackness. Enjoy :)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group I'm Going All The Way · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer, Executive Producer, Associated Performer, Recording A

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Sun Up To Sundown · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer: Gary Hines Producer: Jimmy Jam Producer: Terry Lewis Compose

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From "The journey of the drum" "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted b

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group The Harder They Are The Bigger They Fall · Sounds Of Blackness The Very Best Of Sounds Of Blackness & Ann Nesby ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 2001-01-01 Producer, Executive Producer, Associated

from the album Africa to America: The Journey of the Drum (1994) Rap: Joseph Young Soloists: Eunique Mack and Robert Anderson (of the group Solo) ***I don't own the rights to this song***

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group African Medley · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer: Gary Hines Producer: Jimmy Jam Producer: Terry Lewis Composer

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Strange Fruit · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer: Gary Hines Producer: Jimmy Jam Producer: Terry Lewis Composer L

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Black Butterfly · Sounds Of Blackness The Very Best Of Sounds Of Blackness & Ann Nesby ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 2001-01-01 Producer, Executive Producer, Associated Performer, Recording A

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group You've Taken My Blues & Gone · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer: Jimmy Jam Producer: Terry Lewis Author: Langston

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Ah' Been Buked (Part 2) · Sounds Of Blackness Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum ℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1994-01-01 Producer: Gary Hines Producer: Jimmy Jam Producer: Terry Lewis C