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1979 studio album by Lakeside
Rough Riders Lakeside .[ 1] [ 2] SOLAR Records label, it was produced by Dick Griffey , Lakeside, and Leon Sylvers III . "Pull My Strings" was a hit.[ 3]
The Oakland Post [ 6] The New York Times Rough Riders "displays a competent show band adept at several rhythm-and-blues idioms, but the material and arrangements are drearily formulaic."[ 7]
"Rough Rider" (Stephen Shockley) - 4:45
"All in My Mind" (Otis Stokes, Stephen Shockley, Tiemeyer McCain) - 4:42
"If You Like Our Music (Get Up and Move)" (Otis Stokes, Stephen Shockley) - 4:33
"I Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Norman Beavers) - 5:36
"Pull My Strings" (Fred Lewis) - 6:54
"I'll Never Leave You" (Bryan Evans, Tiemeyer McCain) - 6:15
"From 9:00 Until" (Otis Stokes) - 6:04 Backing vocals, bass, clavinet, guitar, lead vocals, piano (acoustic), synthesizer - Otis Stokes
Backing vocals, bells, lead vocals - Tiemeyer McCain
Backing vocals, electric piano (Fender Rhodes), lead vocals, piano (acoustic) - Mark Adam Wood, Jr.
Backing vocals, lead vocals, vocals - Thomas Shelby
Bass - Marvin Craig
Clavinet, ensemble (string), keyboards, synthesizer - Norman Beavers
Clavinet, guitar, synthesizer - Stephen Shockley
Congas, percussion, synthesizer (bass), timbales - Fred Lewis
Drums - Fred Alexander Jr.
^ Thompson, Dave (2001). Funk . Backbeat Books. p. 268. ^ Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities . NYU Press. 2010. p. 272.^ "Four superstar musical groups from Solar Records...". Oakland Post . No. 558/559. 29 June 1980. p. 4. ^ "Rough Riders Review by Craig Lytle" . AllMusic . Retrieved 23 January 2024 .^ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul . Virgin. p. 198. ^ "Lakeside's story began in 1969 in Dayton, Ohio...". Oakland Post . No. 555. 25 June 1980. p. 10. ^ Holden, Stephen (23 Mar 1980). "Solar Could Be the Motown of the 80's". The New York Times . p. D25.
