When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All

Personnel: Lou Rawls (vocals); Roland Chambers, Dennis Harris (guitar); Don Renaldo (strings, horn); Edward Green, Leon Huff (keyboards); Michael "Sugarbear" Foreman (bass); Charles Collins (drums); David Cruse (congas, bongos); Barbara Ingram, Carla Benton, Yvette Benson (background vocals).
Producers include: Vonghn Gray, Jack Faith, Robert L. Martin, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff.
Recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A smooth, often delightful album that kept Lou Rawls squarely in the love/romantic/mellow circle that he'd been scoring in throughout the late '70s. Gamble and Huff were really trimming the productions and keeping things laid-back and casual, while Rawls' emphatic, smoky vocals carried the day. They weren't getting huge pop hits, but were on the R&B charts steadily, and the album just missed the pop Top 40. ~ Ron Wynn