As Serious as a Heart-Attack
1971 studio album by Melvin Van Peebles
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Studio album by Melvin Van Peebles | ||||
Released | 1971 | |||
Recorded | 1971 | |||
Genre | Spoken word | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Melvin Van Peebles | |||
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As Serious as a Heart-Attack is a 1971 spoken word album by Melvin Van Peebles. This is Van Peebles third studio record. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in Van Peebles' 1973 film Don't Play Us Cheap.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Melvin Van Peebles
Countryside
- "Rufus & Ruby"
- "Mothers Prayer"
- "The Country Brother & The City Sister"
- "Chippin"
Cityside
- "Just Don't Make No Sense"
- "Dearmistuh P"
- "Love, That's America"
- "I Remember"
- "My Pal Johnny"
Personnel
Musicians
- Rhetta Hughes - guest vocalist on "Mother's Prayer"
- Doug Carn - keyboards
- John Boudreaux Jr. - drums
- Tom Scott, Albert Hall Jr. - horns
- William Henderson - strings
- Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Rhetta Hughes, Jessica Smith - backing vocals
Engineers
- Robert Appère - recording and mix
- Dick Burns - mix
- Produced And Conceived By Melvin Van Peebles
- All Words And Music By Melvin Van Peebles
- All Selections Published By Almo Music Corp./Yeah Inc., Ascap,
- Except "Love That's, America," Colgems Music, Ascap
- Art Direction: Roland Young
- Album Design: Chuck Beeson
- Photography: Jim McCrary
References
- ^ As Serious as a Heart-Attack at AllMusic
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Melvin Van Peebles
- The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)
- Watermelon Man (1970)
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
- Don't Play Us Cheap (1973)
- Identity Crisis (1989)
- Vrooom Vroom Vroooom (1995, short)
- Gang in Blue (1996)
- Bellyful (2000)
- Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)
- Don't Play Us Cheap (1970)
- Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1972)
- Waltz of the Stork (1982)
- Brer Soul (1969)
- Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1970)
- As Serious as a Heart-Attack (1971)
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (soundtrack, 1971)
- What the....You Mean I Can't Sing?! (1974)
- Ghetto Gothic (1995)
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