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Uptown Festival

1977 studio album by Shalamar

Uptown Festival

Studio album by

Shalamar

Released

April 12, 1977 (1977-04-12)

Studio

Wally Heider Studios, The Sound Factory

Genre

Disco, R&B

Length

38:30

Label

Soul Train Records

Producer

Dick Griffey, Don Cornelius, Simon Soussan

Shalamar chronology

Uptown Festival
(1977)

Disco Gardens
(1978)

Singles from Uptown Festival

"Uptown Festival (song)"
Released: March 1977
"Ooo Baby Baby"
Released: August 1977

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork	4.2/10^[2]

Uptown Festival is the first album credited to American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1977 on the Soul Train label. The album was in fact recorded by session singers. It peaked at #22 on the US R&B chart and #48 on the Billboard Albums chart.

The title track, "Uptown Festival," was recorded at Ike & Tina Turner's Bolic Sound studio.^[3] It's a medley of ten Motown classics sung over a 1970s disco beat. The single was a hit in both the US and the UK.^[4]

Singles

Two singles were released from the album:

"Uptown Festival (Part 1)" (US Hot 100 #25, US R&B #10, Australia #20, UK #30)^[4]
"Ooo Baby Baby" (US R&B #59)^[5]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Inky Dinky Wang Dang Doo"	Norma Toney, Andre Williams	4:04
2.	"Beautiful Night"	Jimmy Thomas	5:20
3.	"Uptown Festival" ("Going to a Go-Go" / "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" / "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" / "Stop! In the Name of Love" / "It's the Same Old Song" / "The Tears of a Clown" / "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" / "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" / "Baby Love" / "He Was Really Saying Somethin'")	Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin, Pete Moore / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Holland–Dozier–Holland, Sylvia Moy / Holland–Dozier–Holland / Norman Whitfield, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Eddie Holland	8:52

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"High on Life"	Don Cornelius	3:42
5.	"Ooh Baby, Baby"	Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore	3:48
6.	"You Know"	Don Cornelius	3:59
7.	"Forever Came Today"	Holland–Dozier–Holland	5:55

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[6]	27

References

^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Shalamar – Uptown Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
^ "Shalamar: Uptown Festival / Disco Gardens / Big Fun". Pitchfork.
^ "Ian Dewhirst". Red Bull Music Academy.
^ ^a ^b "Uptown Festival (song by Shalamar) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". www.musicvf.com.
^ "Ooh Baby, Baby (song by Shalamar) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". www.musicvf.com.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 270. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.