Sun Goddess (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Sun Goddess
Type = Studio album
Artist = Ramsey Lewis


Released = 1974
Recorded = 1973-1974
Genre = Jazz fusion, R&B
Length = 36:05 (Original LP)
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Teo Macero, Ramsey Lewis, Maurice White
Reviews = *Allmusic (4/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:3zfwxqwgldde link]
Last album = "Funky Serenity"
(1973)
This album = "Sun Goddess"
(1974)
Next album = "Salongo"
(1976)

"Sun Goddess" is a 1974 Jazz album by Ramsey Lewis.

About the Album

After his classic acoustic albums in the 1960s, Ramsey Lewis wanted to head into a new direction in his music. He reunited with Maurice White who at that time was with his own R&B band, Earth, Wind & Fire. Having the EW&F band play in the background, was what made this album work. Lewis wrote and created what can be considered his top electric jazz song "Sun Goddess". The song was one of Lewis' greatest triumphs in the Jazz world as well as the R&B world.

The album became a huge cross-over hit, charting #1 on the Billboard Black Albums chart as well as the Jazz album chart. The album also charted #12 in the Pop chart. While the album charted in the top 15, the songs "Hot Dawgit" and "Sun Goddess" charted in the Black Singles, the Pop Singles and the Disco singles charts.

The title track bares a strong resemblance to the theme song from Reading Rainbow.

Track listing

#"Sun Goddess" (Lind, White) - 8:29
#"Living for the City" (Wonder) - 5:20
#"Love Song" (Lewis) - 5:53
#"Jungle Strut" (Lewis) - 4:40
#"Hot Dawgit" (Stepney, White) - 3:00
#"Tambura" (Lewis) - 2:53
#"Gemini Rising" (Lewis) - 5:50

=Personnel=
*Dave Antler - Engineer
*Philip Bailey - Conga, Vocals
*John Berg - Cover Design
*Cleveland Eaton - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
*Richard Evans - Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
*Johnny Graham - Guitar
*Byron Gregory - Guitar
*Maurice Jennings - percussion, Conga, drums, Tambourine
*Ramsey Lewis - Synthesizer, Guitar, Piano, Guitar (Electric), Piano (Electric), Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, String Machine
*Don Meyrick - Sax (Tenor)
*Derf Reklaw-Raheem - Conga, Drums, Vocals
*Charles Stepney - Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Fender Rhodes
*Maurice White - Drums, Timbales, Vocals
*Verdine White - Bass, Vocals

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