Wake Up Everybody is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career.
The album features the hit singles "Wake Up Everybody" and "Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". "Don't Leave Me This Way", which would be reinterpreted two years later by Thelma Houston, was a hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #5. The lead vocal on the closing album track, "Searching for a Love", was performed virtually solo by Sharon Paige, who also performed duet duties with Pendergrass and Melvin on the song "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good."
The album was remastered and reissued with a bonus track, a Tom Moulton remixed version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", in 2008 by Legacy Recordings.
Track listing
Personnel Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching for a Love" MFSB – music Edward Soyka – illustrations, artwork
Charts Chart (1975)PeakU.S. Billboard Top LPs9U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs1
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions US USR&B USDance UK1975 "Wake Up Everybody (Part 1)" 12 1 — 231976 "Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby" 94 7 4 —1977 "Don't Leave Me This Way" — — — 5
See also List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1976
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