Feets, Don't Fail Me Now

Feets, Don't Fail Me Now
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	February 1979
Recorded	1978 The Automatt, San Francisco
Genre	Electronic, funk, jazz, disco
Length	40:38
Label	Columbia
Producer	David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock chronology
Directstep (1979) Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979) The Piano (1979)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Smash Hits	5/10[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

Feets, Don't Fail Me Now is the twenty-seventh album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. The record was released in February 1979, on the Columbia Records label.

Overview[]

This was the first of Hancock's albums to discard jazz completely in favor of a more commercial (at the time) disco sound, with vocoder effects and repetitive lyrics. Honey from the Jar, however, is definitely a funk, not disco, song. Background vocals were provided by 'The Waters', a family vocal group from Los Angeles. All LP and CD editions after the first pressing use an alternate 'Disco Mix' version of "Tell Everybody". The original version was included as a bonus track on the disc in the Complete Columbia Albums Collection box set.

Track listing[]

1. "You Bet Your Love" (Herbie Hancock, David Rubinson, Allee Willis, Jeffrey Cohen) – 7:41
2. "Trust Me" (Hancock, Rubinson, Allee Willis) – 5:44
3. "Ready or Not" (Ray Parker Jr., Cohen) – 6:48
4. "Tell Everybody" (Hancock, Rubinson, Bruce Good, Cohen) – 7:49
5. "Honey From the Jar" (Hancock, Cohen) – 6:53
6. "Knee Deep" (Hancock, Melvin Ragin) – 5:43

Personnel[]

• Herbie Hancock – lead and background vocals, all keyboards
• James Gadson – drums
• Eddie Watkins – bass
• Ray Obiedo – guitar
• Bill Summers – percussion
• Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters and Luther Waters – background vocals
• Ray Parker, Jr. – guitar and drums on "Ready or Not"
• Coke Escovedo – timbales on "Ready or Not"
• Sheila Escovedo – congas on "Ready or Not"
• James Levi – drums on "Knee Deep" and "Trust Me"
• Freddie Washington – bass on "Knee Deep"
• Wah Wah Watson – guitar on "Knee Deep"
• Bennie Maupin – soprano sax on "Knee Deep"

Additional personnel[]

• Produced by – David Rubinson & Friends Inc. and Herbie Hancock
• Associate producer – Jeffrey Cohen
• Engineers – Fred Catero and David Rubinson
• Assistant engineers – Chris Minto, Leslie Ann Jones, Ken Kassie and Cheryl Ward
• Mastering engineer – Phil Brown
• Keyboard and Vocoder engineer – Bryan Bell

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.discogs.com/release/385157