The unbelievable momentum of Grand Funk confirmed no indicators of stopping as they reached the tip of 1974 with their second album of the yr, their ninth studio launch and their eleventh LP to chart in simply over 5 years. The album in query, with loads of exclamation marks within the title and much more muscle tissues rippling on the duvet, was All The Women In The World Beware!!! It entered the Billboard chart on December 21, 1974.
It was the band’s second studio album within the house of 9 months, and is a part of a sequence by which all of their first 11 lengthy gamers to make the bestsellers are actually licensed at the very least gold in America, three platinum and two multi-platinum. The place the March 1974 launch Shinin’ On had been produced by Todd Rundgren, All The Women was helmed by Jimmy Ienner and launched by one other of Grand Funk’s large covers.
Shinin’ On was pushed by the band’s No.1 remake of Little Eva’s “The Loco-motion,” and now got here their rocking interpretation of “Some Kind Of Wonderful.” Somewhat than the often-covered Gerry Goffin/Carole King track, related amongst others with the Drifters from their R&B High 10 model, this was the quantity written by John Ellison, who recorded it together with his group Soul Brothers Six in 1967.
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That recording solely reached No.91 on the US singles chart, and a canopy the following yr by the Incredible Johnny C peaked at No.87. Grand Funk noticed the possibility to grab the large hit, and their studying of “Wonderful” duly reached No.3. That was adopted by a Mark Farner unique, “Bad Time,” which grew to become the second single from Women and one other large 45, reaching No.4.
The album featured 5 different songs written or co-written by Farner, and a canopy of Howard Tate’s Nineteen Sixties R&B tune written by Jerry Ragovoy and Mort Schuman, “Look At Granny Run Run.” The string preparations on the LP had been by Tony Camillo, who had co-produced and organized Gladys Knight and the Pips’ Grammy-winning “Midnight Train To Georgia.” Camillo would have some chart glory of his personal in 1975 when the dance single “Dynomite,” credited to Tony Camillo’s Bazuka and launched on A&M, hit the US High 10.
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