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Body Snatchers (Rare Essence album)

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Body Snatchers
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1, 1996
Genre
Length65:06
Label
  • Sounds of the Capital
  • Liaison
  • Rare One
Producer
  • Andre Johnson
  • Donnell Floyd
Rare Essence chronology
Get Your Freak On
(1995)
Body Snatchers
(1996)
We Go On and On
(1998)

Body Snatchers is a studio album released on August 1, 1996[1] by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Rare Essence.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The album peaked at No. 60 Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums on September 28, 1996.[8]

Track listing

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Studio Side
  1. "Welcome to the Show" – 5:50
  2. "Body Snatchers" – 6:03
  3. "Somebody's Been Funkin with R.E." – 5:19
  4. "One Two" – 6:45
  5. "No Bang No More" – 5:22
Live Side
  1. "If You Feel it's Real" – 7:12
  2. "Call My Name" – 6:16
  3. "All da Time" – 7:12
  4. "Body Snatchers" – 7:48
  5. "Go Down Baby" – 7:19

Personnel

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  • Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris – vocals
  • Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson – electric guitar, vocals
  • Michael "Funky Ned" Neal – bass guitar
  • Donnell Floyd – vocals, saxophone
  • Kent Wood – keyboards
  • Milton "Go-Go Mickey" Freeman – congas, percussion

References

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  1. ^ a b "Body Snatchers – Rare Essence". Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Drumming, Neil (October 1, 1998). "The Terrible Threes". Washington City Paper.
  3. ^ Wartofsky, Alona (November 16, 1996). "Go-Go Go-Goes On". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Morrision, Travis (October 14, 2013). "Getting Down to Go-Go". Impose Magazine.
  5. ^ "Rare Essence – Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 21, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop. Billboard Books. pp. 281. ISBN 0-8230-7727-6.
  7. ^ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2009). The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 221–224. ISBN 978-1-60473-241-2.
  8. ^ "Rare Essence: Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
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