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Big Fun

Shalamar

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  Name Artist Time Price  
1 The Right Time for Us Shalamar 5:54 $0.99 View In iTunes
2 Take Me to the River Shalamar 5:00 $0.99 View In iTunes
3 Right In the Socket Shalamar 6:45 $0.99 View In iTunes
4 The Second Time Around Shalamar 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes
5 I Owe You One Shalamar 5:09 $0.99 View In iTunes
6 Let's Find the Time for Love Shalamar 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes
7 Girl Shalamar 5:21 $0.99 View In iTunes
8 The Second Time Around (Hithouse Club Mix) Shalamar 6:33 $0.99 View In iTunes
9 Right In the Socket (Remix) Shalamar 4:39 $0.99 View In iTunes
10 The Second Time Around (12" Mix) Shalamar 7:13 $0.99 View In iTunes

Album Review

With its third album, Big Fun, Shalamar unveiled its best-known and most successful lineup. Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniels were still on board, but Gerald Brown had been replaced by the charismatic Howard Hewett. Both creatively and commercially, this album would take Shalamar to new heights and establish the trio as one of the best soul-pop units of 1979-1983. The single that made Hewett famous and really sent Shalamar into orbit was "Second Time Around," but the classic Hewett/Watley/Daniels lineup also excels on everything from the insistent "Right in the Socket" to the playfully funky "Take Me to the River" (not the 1974 Al Green classic) and the smooth, Philadelphia soul-type ballad "Let's Find the Time for Love." Definitely one of Shalamar's essential releases, Big Fun was reissued on CD by The Right Stuff in 1996.

Biography

Formed: 1976 in New York, NY

Genre: R&B/Soul

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s

Shalamar was the creation of Dick Griffey, the booking agent for the television R&B program Soul Train, and British R&B producer Simon Soussan. The group's first single, the 1977 Motown medley "Uptown Festival," featured a bevy of faceless studio musicians; once it became a hit, Griffey decided...
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