20/09/2025

Patti LaBelle "Tasty" (1978) -Soul / Funk-



Label : Epic Records


États-Unis Side 1

01 - Save The Last Dance For Me (Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman)
02 - Monkey See - Monkey Do (Michael Franks)
03 - Little Girls (Allee Willis)
04 - You Make It So Hard (To Say No) (Boz Scaggs)

Side 2

01 - Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile) (Armstead Edwards, Patti LaBelle & Budd Ellison)
02 - Quiet Time (Armstead Edwards, Patti LaBelle & Budd Ellison)
03 - Don't Let Go (Jesse Stone)
04 - I See Home (Allee Willis & David Lasley)
05 - Eyes In The Back Of My Head (Pete Wingfield)


Arranged & Produced by David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
Musical Director for Patti LaBelle : Budd Ellison
Engineers : Fred Catero & David Rubinson
Assistant Engineers : Chris Minto & Cheryl Ward
Recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco
A Product of Catero Sound Co., San Francisco
Vocal Arrangements by Patti LaBelle, David Rubinson & Budd Ellison

Keyboards : Bud Ellison
Drums : James Gadson, Ollie Brown on "Save The Last Dance For Me"
Bass : Eddie Watkins
Guitar : Leo Nocentelli Jr., Wah Wah Watson with Ray Parker Jr., John Shine
Background vocals : Maxine Willard Waters, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters & Oren Waters, The Johnny Land Singers on "Quiet Time"
Steel Drums : Andy Narell
Congas : Raul Rekow on "Save The Last Dance For Me" & "Monkey See - Monkey Do"

Also Appearing on "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)" :
Piano : Richard Kermode
Bass : Pablo Tellez
Drums : Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler
Timbales : Sheila Escovedo
Congas : Willie Colon
Background vocals : Willie Colon, Carlos D. Aleman & Patti LaBelle

Orchestra on "Little Girls" & "I See Home" Arranged & Conducted by Dale O. Warren, PhD.
Brass on "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)" & "You Make It So Hard (To Say No)" Arranged & Conducted by Al Bent
Orchestra under the supervision of Terry Adams
Concertmaster : Nathan Rubin
Copyists : Vicki Gray, KVG Enterprises, Tony Kaye & George Annis, Music Suite