Track Listing

1. Got to Love Somebody
2. You Fooled Around
3. I'm a Good Girl
4. Easy Street
5. Reach Your Peak
6. Pretty Baby
7. How to Love
8. Let's Go on a Vacation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104151 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Sister Sledge were an R&B vocal group from Philadelphia consisting of sisters Debra, Joni, Kim & Kathy Sledge. They issued numerous albums throughout the1970's & 1980's. They are best known for their big hit "We Are Family". Even though that album has been issued on CD, most of their other albums have not. We now rectify that situation with the release of seven of their albums, all but one making their worldwide CD debuts.

Customer Reviews

The Sisters Reaching Their Peak?Doubt It
This is Sister Sledge's follow up to their massively successful 1979 outing We Are Family. Again Bernard & Nile are producing the their band Chic is playing backup-also featured,notably on the title song is Meco Monardo on sax. And the music is set firmly in their standing tradition of classy disco-funk grooves and punchy melodies. This album is home to some truely incredible grooves such as the title song,"You Fooled Around" and (my favorite) "Reach Your Peak". Another two great grooves are the funky "Easy Street" and the whimsical groove of "Let's Go On Vacation". On "Pretty Baby" the message of family solidarity is again re enforced and Kathie Sledge's great singing really shows up in fine style on "I'm A Good Girl".So musically this album is totally up to par. Non of the lyrics have quite the same punch as the first outings the Sister Sledge/Chic combo did and that might've played some part in the Sisters turning to Narada Michael Walden next time around,or maybe it didn't I don't know. Either way this might be musically more artistic,with it occasional improvised sax solos from Meco then We Are Family was. But no matter how you cut it this was Sister Sledge's final collaberation with the Chic family for a little bit. They would meet up with Nile Rodgers again later but this more or less concluded that period of their musical career.

After the Platinum.
So many artists have fallen victim to the highs of having a enormously successful album only to become almost a nightclub act performing for little old ladies with blue hair. What do you have to show for it... a Grammy that sits on your curio cabinet that you're telling your grandkids about.-- Remember "Frampton Comes Alive" or "Ring My Bell" or even Mambo #5" (What??). Okay, of corse you remember "Frampton Comes Alive" or "Bell"
but "Mambo #5"... yes, it's true folks "Has-been-city".
The-like happened to Sister Sledge with their follow-up to "We Are Family"
album; "Love Somebody Today".
The first single "Got To Love Somebody" was good and Kathy definitely nailed the vocals, but this was NOT a lead-off single. I applaude Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards for trying new things and keeping it fresh after disco. This new formula worked for Diana Ross the same year with her
"Diana" album. What happened? Some of the material is just plain horrible
("Easy Street", "Let's Go On Vacation" and "I'm A Good Girl". "How To Love" is the centerpiece track for me and another favorite. Let's hear it for Kathy. "Pretty Baby" is another poor title. The best titles are "Got To Love Somebody", "Reach Your Peak" (the second single); and my personal favorite and again "How To Love".
"You Fooled Around"-- the song that should have been released as a single.
So there you go, my review on the Sister Sledge album "Love Somebody Today".
By the way... I have been listening to my favorite track thru writting this review ("You Fooled Around").

I'm so glad this has been reissued
Sometimes good things come to those who wait. I was so glad to see that this had been recently reissued and quickly ordered a copy. The previous version is still on sale here somewhere for $49.99. That might sound like a lot but believe it or not, it was once selling for $99.99.

This was the other Sister Sledge album produced by the guys from Chic. It was released the year after the phenomenal We Are Family and didn't even come close to it in terms of commercial success. While songs like "He's The Greatest Dancer", "Lost In Music", "Thinking Of You" and of course, "We Are Family" are still regularly played to this day on retro radio and in (incredibly popular) 70s/80s nightclubs and have been remixed, remade, covered and sampled hither and yon over the years, songs from this album barely got a look in. A shame really, as in my view, this one had much more to offer musically. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers were a bit more adventurous with their production on here and were trying out new ideas. Check out "Pretty Baby", for instance, which was purely lead guitar-led (though for years I thought it was piano); a first for the dynamic duo as far as I recall.

Their music was also beginning to break free of the confines disco demanded and the sisters had much more freedom to showcase their very capable vocals. I love all eight of the songs, though "You Fooled Around", "I'm A Good Girl", "How To Love" and "Let's Go On Vacation" (with its wonderful electric piano jazz improvisations towards the end) are forever firm personal favourites. I'm also quite pleased to see that they haven't added on any of those silly remixes that some earlier releases of many classic albums have had. Maybe someone is listening, after all.

Only one quibble: I wish they had put the artwork that appeared on the back of the original vinyl version on the back CD cover. It appears on the inner sleeve so I guess it could be worse but I'm thinking that's where the new artwork that does appear on the CD back cover, would have been much better placed. But I guess it's a minor detail.

As a footnote, my buddy and I were playing some of this old music the other day and we were saying that if someone had told us back in 1980 that we would still be playing and enjoying the music of the day 27 years later, we would have almost died laughing. Yet here we are. And it's not just old fogeys like us going back into the archives. I know a number of much younger people who are sick of today's blandness in popular music and are going back to the music of the 70s and 80s. If you're one of those people and you missed this one first time round, pick a copy up. It's a gem.