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Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life)





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Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life) is an album by trumpeter Donald Byrd featuring compositions by the Blackbyrds, released on the Elektra label in 1978.[1][2] The album marked a distinct movement away from jazz toward more rhythm and blues and disco influences. The cover art is by Romare Bearden.[3]

Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life)
Studio albumby
Donald Byrd
Released1978
RecordedFebruary–July 1978
StudioThe Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA
GenreRhythm and blues, Funk, Soul music
Length39:09
LabelElektra
6E-144
ProducerDonald Byrd
Donald Byrd chronology
Caricatures
(1976) 		Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life)
(1978) 		Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C.
(1979)

Track listing

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All compositions by Art Posey, Josef Powell and Melvin Ragin except where noted

  1. Thank You for Funking Up My Life" (Posey, Powell, Kevin Toney) – 4:15
  2. "Sunning in Your Loveshine" (Posey, Powell, Orville Saunders) – 5:40
  3. "Your Love Is My Ecstasy" – 5:03
  4. "Loving You" (Joe Hall) – 4:48
  5. "Have You Heard the News?" – 4:42
  6. "In Love with Love" – 4:48
  7. "Cristo Redentor" (Duke Pearson) – 4:45
  8. "Close Your Eyes and Look Within" (Posey, Powell, Saunders) – 5:15

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Elektra/Asylum Album Discography, Part 6: Elektra/Asylum Consolidated 6E-100 Series (1977–1981) accessed December 11, 2017
  • ^ Soulwalking: Donald Byrd discography accessed December 11, 2017
  • ^ "Guiding light". Jazziz. Vol. 20, no. 10. October 2003. p. 80.

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