Commodores

Commodores is the fifth studio album by the Commodores, released in 1977. The album spent eight weeks at the top of the R&B/soul albums chart, the second of their albums to do so, and was their first Top 5 pop album. There is also a previously released extended version. The original vinyl release included a large fold out poster of the band. The poster is visible in a scene of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever. The band employed a variety of musical styles for the album, highlighted by the popular anthem "Brick House". With Walter Orange's deep voice on the lead, and Ronald LaPread's bassline, this track peaked on the U.S. Hot 100 at #5, and the U.S. R&B Chart at #4. "Brick House" means a "stacked" woman with an hour-glass figure. In contrast to "Brick House", "Easy" is a pop ballad with mellow vocals by Lionel Richie. "Zoom" is one of the Commodores' best known tunes, despite not being released as a single in the US. It reached #38 on the UK singles chart. Fergie sampled "Zoom" in her song "All That I Got" on the album The Dutchess. In the UK and other Western European countries this album was released as Zoom on Tamla Motown. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)