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340:"Summer Nights" (Meyers, Randolph, White) – 5:32
343:"Tell Me Why" (Butler, Meyers, Williams) – 4:19
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352:"Step by Step" (Lewis, Lewis, Randolph) – 4:01
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325:"Get Up" (Lewis, Lewis, Randolph) – 3:47
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485:Valerie Mayo – backing vocals
479:Carl Carwell – backing vocals
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358:"Interlude #2" (Lewis) – 2:02
337:"Interlude #1" (Lewis) – 0:35
170:which was issued in 1997 on
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467:Tony Carpenter – percussion
434:Jimi Randolph – synthesizer
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425:– piano, electric piano
428:Mike Logan – keyboards
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828:You Better Believe Me
804:Barefoot Sunday Blues
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860:Up Pops Ramsey Lewis
545:on November 9, 2019.
183:Professional ratings
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876:Mother Nature's Son
772:The Sound of Spring
559:Widran, Johnathan.
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561:"Urban Knights II"
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1183:Sun Goddess
1143:The Groover
1087:Live albums
1052:Sky Islands
940:Sun Goddess
852:Goin' Latin
514:GRP Records
172:GRP Records
1199:Categories
1004:Les Fleurs
964:Love Notes
932:Solar Wind
788:Bossa Nova
644:Sun Herald
618:Jazz Times
496:References
294:Sun Herald
290:Jazz Times
279:Sun Herald
269:Jazz Times
120:chronology
539:Billboard
402:Personnel
379:Position
796:Pot Luck
569:Allmusic
311:Allmusic
202:Allmusic
106:Producer
57:Recorded
49:Released
39: by
1154:Singles
1020:Fantasy
956:Salongo
516:. 1997.
151:(2000)
144:(1997)
135:(1995)
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988:Routes
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980:Legacy
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452:– bass
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366:Charts
307:Butler
196:Rating
193:Source
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66:Genre
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