Love Island (album)

Love Island
Love Island
Studio album by Deodato
Released	1978
Studio	Capitol (Hollywood); Hollywood Sound Recorders (Los Angeles); Warner Bros. (Burbank, California); House Of Music (West Orange, New Jersey); Mediasound (New York);
Genre	Jazz; jazz-funk; jazz fusion;
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Eumir Deodato; Tommy LiPuma;
Deodato chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Love Island is a studio album by Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato, released in 1978 on Warner Bros. Records.^[2] The album reached No. 9 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart,^[3] but just No. 100 on the Canadian charts.^[4] "Whistle Bump" shared No. 1 on the Canadian 'Dance/Urban' charts, June 17, 1978.^[5]

Critical reception

Ernie Santosuosso noted "Love Island" and "Tahiti Hut" as the best tracks lauding "George Benson's tumbling-noted guitar cameo" and the"intriguing bass figures played by Pops Popwell" as "frilled by Deodato's vocalanger (voice) effects" on "Love Island", the title track, and "Deodato's subdued vocalise" and "simple melodic statement by trombonists Sam Burtis and Wayne Andre" on "Tahiti Hut", the latter, calling the others "a rather anonymous lot".^[6]

Track listing

Adapted from album's text.^[2]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Area Code 808"	Deodato, George Parrish, Jr.	6:45
2.	"Whistle Bump"	Deodato	4:32
3.	"Tahiti Hut"	Deodato, Maurice White	4:27
4.	"San Juan Sunset"	Deodato	4:15
5.	"Love Island"	Deodato	6:40
6.	"Chariot of the Gods"	Don Juan Mancha, Edwin Starr	3:09
7.	"Pina Colada"	Deodato	5:55
8.	"Take The "A" Train"	Billy Strayhorn	3:48

References

^ "Eumir Deodato: Love Island". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
^ ^a ^b Eumir Deodato: Love Island. Warner Bros. Records. 1978.
^ Billboard's Best Selling Jazz LP's. Vol. 90. Billboard. March 25, 1978.
^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - July 8, 1978" (PDF).
^ "RPM Top 30 Dance/Urban - June 17, 1978" (PDF).
^ "Private Article Clipping - Newspapers.com™". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.

External links

Love Island at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] "Eumir Deodato: Love Island". allmusic.com. Allmusic.

[Album-2] Eumir Deodato: Love Island. Warner Bros. Records. 1978.

[3] Billboard's Best Selling Jazz LP's. Vol. 90. Billboard. March 25, 1978.

[4] "RPM Top 100 Albums - July 8, 1978" (PDF).

[5] "RPM Top 30 Dance/Urban - June 17, 1978" (PDF).

[6] "Private Article Clipping - Newspapers.com™". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.

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