Word Up! (CD)

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• Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Label: Casablanca/Universal
• UPC: 042283026520
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106665119
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #51242 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2849 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #155 in Funk (See Top 100 Funk Bestsellers)

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Recorded at Quad Recording Studio, Counter Point Studio, Power Station Studio, and Sound Ideas Studio, New York, New York.

Cameo: Larry Blackmon, Nathan Leftenant, Tomi Jenkins.

The most inescapable funk single of 1986 was Cameo's brilliant "Word Up!," a perfect fusion of gimmicky production--Larry Blackmon's distinctive lead vocal was recorded through a transistor radio to give it a curiously distant, almost robotic quality--and an almost painfully funky groove. Following it with the nearly as perfect "Candy" is by itself enough to make WORD UP Cameo's best studio album by far, but the other five extended funk-rockers are up to those high standards as well. More than any funk band who had been releasing albums before Prince blew up in the early '80s--and that includes the P-Funk crew--Cameo understood how to update their sound without losing their essential funk, adding synths and drum machines to their bass-driven rhythms and coming up with minor masterpieces like the self-evident "Fast, Fierce, and Funny" in the process.

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