Love Somebody Today

Love Somebody Today
Studio album by Sister Sledge
Released	1980
Recorded	1980
Genre	Disco
Length	38:44
Label	Cotillion
Producer	Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Sister Sledge chronology
We Are Family (1980) Love Somebody Today (1980) All American Girls (1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B+ [2]
Smash Hits	7/10[3]

Love Somebody Today is a 1980 album by Sister Sledge. Like 1979's highly successful We Are Family, it was both written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the band Chic and includes three single releases: "Got to Love Somebody" (US Pop #64, R&B #6, December 1979), "Reach Your Peak" (Pop #101, R&B #21, March 1980) and "Let's Go on Vacation" (Pop -, R&B #63). The latter was to be included on the Chic-produced soundtrack album Soup For One in 1982.

Love Somebody Today was one of four albums to be written and produced by Edwards and Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World including its hit single "Spacer", Chic's fourth studio album Real People and Diana Ross' multi-platinum selling diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano".

Love Somebody Today, along with six other Sister Sledge albums, was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 2007 by Wounded Bird Records.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

Side A

1. "Got to Love Somebody" - 6:53  Listen (help·info)
2. "You Fooled Around" - 4:28
3. "I'm a Good Girl" - 4:11
4. "Easy Street" - 4:34

Side B

1. "Reach Your Peak" - 4:55  Listen (help·info)
2. "Pretty Baby" - 4:03
3. "How to Love" - 4:32
4. "Let's Go on Vacation" - 5:08  Listen (help·info)

Personnel

• Kim Sledge - lead vocals
• Debbie Sledge - lead vocals
• Joni Sledge - lead vocals
• Kathy Sledge - lead vocals
• Alfa Anderson - backing vocals
• Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals
• Luci Martin - backing vocals
• Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals
• Bernard Edwards - bass guitar
• Gene Orloff - concertmaster
• Tony Thompson - drums
• Nile Rodgers - guitar
• Andy Schwartz - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
• Raymond Jones - keyboards, Fender Rhodes
• Sammy Figueroa - percussion
• Robert Sabino - piano, clavinet
• Eddie Daniels - saxophone
• Meco Monardo - tenor saxophone
• Bob Milliken - trombone
• Ellen Seeling - trumpet
• Jon Faddis - trumpet
• Cheryl Hong (The Chic Strings) - strings
• Karen Milne (The Chic Strings) - strings
• Marianne Carroll (The Chic Strings - strings

Production

• Bernard Edwards - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Nile Rodgers - producer for Chic Organization Ltd.
• Bob Clearmountain - sound engineer
• Bill Scheniman - engineer
• Larry Alexander - engineer
• Garry Rindfuss - assistant engineer
• Jeff Hendrickson - assistant engineer
• Peter Robbins - assistant engineer
• Ray Willard - assistant engineer
• Joe Gastwirt - mastering
• All songs recorded and mixed at Power Station Studios, New York

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