Hard Core Poetry

Hard Core Poetry
Studio album by Tavares
Released September 1974
Studio Sound Labs
(Hollywood, California)
Genre R&B, soul
Length 34:25
Label Capitol
Producer Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
Tavares chronology
Check It Out
(1974)Check It Out1974		 Hard Core Poetry
(1974)		 In the City
(1975)In the City1975
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Hard Core Poetry is the second studio album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1974 on the Capitol label.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Too Late", which peaked at No. 10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, Hall & Oates' "She's Gone", which charted at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Remember What I Told You to Forget", which reached No. 4 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Someone to Go Home To"3:15
2."She's Gone" (Daryl Hall, John Oates)3:38
3."My Ship"3:26
4."Leave It Up to the Lady"3:30
5."To Love You"4:02
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Too Late"4:26
7."Remember What I Told You to Forget"4:10
8."What You Don't Know"3:54
9."Hard Core Poetry"4:23

Personnel

Charts

Album

Chart (1974) Peaks
[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 121
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 11

Singles

Year Single Peaks
US
[2]		 US
R&B
[2]
1974 "Too Late" 59 10
"She's Gone" 50 1
1975 "Remember What I Told You to Forget" 25 4

References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Alex. Hard Core Poetry review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  2. 1 2 3 "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
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