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Release Date
1 January 1984
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Length
9 tracks
Poet II is a 1984 album by Bobby Womack. The album featured the hit duets with fellow soul legend Patti LaBelle on the top three R&B charted ballad, "Love Has Finally Come at Last" and the more modest follow-up, "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye" and the top 75 UK dance hit, "Tell Me Why". The UK music magazine NME named it the best album of 1984.
Personnel
Bobby Womack – vocals, guitar
Patti LaBelle – vocals
Courtney Sappington, David T. Walker, George Benson, Robert Palmer – guitar
David Shields – bass
Michael Wycoff – keyboards
Denzil "Broadway" Miller, Rusty Hamilton – synthesizer
James E. Gadson – drums
Fred Johnson – electronic drums
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Fernando Harkless, Fred Wesley, Harry Kim, Sidney Mulgrow, Thurmon Green, Wilton Felder – horns
Dorothy Ashby – harp
James Gadson, Kathy Bloxson, Regina Womack, The Valentinos, Luther Waters, Julia Waters, Oren Waters, Maxine Waters – background vocals
Dave Bloomberg – string arrangements
Otis Smith – executive producer
"American Dream" contains an excerpt of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963.
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