Sky High!

Sky High!
Sky High!
Studio album by Tavares
Released	May 1976
Studio	Total Experience Recording Studios; (Hollywood, California)
Genre	R&B, soul, disco
Length	39:46
Label	Capitol
Producer	Freddie Perren
Tavares chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B–^[2]

Sky High! is the fourth studio album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1976 on the Capitol label.

Commercial performance[]

The album peaked at No. 20 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", which peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Don't Take Away the Music", which charted at No. 14 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs reach No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Track listing[]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Mighty Power of Love"	Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren	3:58
2.	"Ridin' High"	Feliciano Tavares, Keni St. Lewis	4:05
3.	"To the Other Man"	Luther Ingram, Randall Stewart, Johnny Northern, Johnny Baylor	4:34
4.	"Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"	Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren	6:32

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Bein' with You"	Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren	3:45
6.	"Wonderful"	Homer Banks, Carl Hampton	4:00
7.	"Guiding Star"	Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren	6:34
8.	"Don't Take Away the Music"	Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian	6:18

Personnel[]

James Gadson – drums
John Barnes – piano
Scott Edwards – bass
Bob "Boogie" Bowles, Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin – guitar
Bob Zimmitti, Paulinho Magalhaes, Paulinho da Costa, Freddie Perren – percussion
Electric Ivory Experience (John Barnes, Bob Robitaille) – synthesizers

Charts[]

Album

Chart (1976)	Peaks ^[3]
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]	36
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	24
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	20

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
Year	Single	US ^[3]	US R&B ^[3]	US Dan ^[3]
1976	"Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"	15	3	1
1976	"Don't Take Away the Music"	34	14	1

References[]

^ Henderson, Alex. Sky High! review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 15, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 305. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

External links[]

Sky High! at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Henderson, Alex. Sky High! review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.

[CG-2] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 15, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[us-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

[aus-4] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 305. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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