Genre
Philadelphia soul and jazz. Characteristic of Rawls's Philadelphia International period, the album balances Gamble and Huff's polished, groove-driven soul production with jazz-inflected tracks.
Release
Released in 1977 by Philadelphia International Records. The album's title is a play on the Budweiser advertising slogan "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all" — Rawls was then the company's national spokesperson and could be heard in its television commercials.
Production
Only four tracks were produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff; the remaining tracks were shared among others producers. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Reception
The album peaked at number 13 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and number 41 on the Billboard 200. The lead single "Lady Love" proved successful in the crossover market, becoming Rawls's last single to enter the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number 13 in Canada.
Lou Rawls
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933, Chicago, Illinois – January 6, 2006, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer whose four-octave baritone adapted equally to gospel, jazz, blues, soul, and R&B. He grew up in the Ida B. Wells housing projects on Chicago's South Side, began singing in church at seven, and as a teenager performed alongside Sam Cooke in the gospel group Teenage Kings of Harmony. After military service as a paratrooper, a near-fatal 1958 car crash that left him in a coma for five and a half days, and a slow recovery, he rebuilt his career from the Los Angeles nightclub circuit, signing with Capitol Records in 1962. His greatest commercial success came with Philadelphia International Records, which he joined in 1975; the resulting collaboration with Gamble and Huff produced "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" (1976) — his signature song. He won three Grammy Awards for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance — for "Dead End Street" (1967), A Natural Man (1971), and Unmistakably Lou (1977) — earned thirteen nominations in total, released over sixty albums, and sold more than 40 million records. In 1980 he founded the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon for the United Negro College Fund, which raised over 250 million dollars before his death.
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