| Madam Butterfly | ||||
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| Studio album by Tavares | ||||
| Released | January 1979 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Length | 37:39 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Bobby Martin | |||
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Madam Butterfly is the seventh album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, produced by Bobby Martin and released in 1979 on the Capitol label. By this stage in the group's career, they had become known as a disco act due to successful singles such as "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", "Whodunit" and "More Than a Woman. Madam Butterfly is however noted for its lack of anything approaching disco material, and as such is considered to be more akin in style to the group's 1973-1975 albums than to their 1976-1978 Freddie Perren-produced output.
"Never Had a Love Like This Before", one of several slow jams on the album, became a top 5 R&B hit and has subsequently become a quiet storm classic, while tracks such as "I'm Back for More" are more funk-based than listeners had come to expect from Tavares. Madam Butterfly performed respectably on the R&B chart, peaking at #13, but failed to achieve substantial sales in the crossover market. Its reputation has grown over the years and it is now considered among the group's best.