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Uptown Festival

Uptown Festival
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Studio album by Shalamar
Released April 12, 1977
Genre R&B
Length 38:30
Label Soul Train Records
Producer Dick Griffey, Don Cornelius, Simon Soussan
Shalamar chronology
Uptown Festival
(1977)
Disco Gardens
(1978)
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Allmusic 2/5 stars

Uptown Festival is the first album credited to American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1977 on the Soul Train label. (The album was in fact recorded by session singers). Uptown Festival peaked at #22 on the US R&B chart and #48 on the Billboard Albums chart.

The title track, a medley of ten Motown classics sung over a 1970s disco beat, was a hit in both the USA and the UK.

"Uptown Festival Part 1" (US Hot 100 #25, US R&B #10, UK #30)
"Ooo Baby Baby" (US R&B #59)


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