LaBelle ‎– Nightbirds

Label:  Epic ‎– KE 33075
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Terre Haute Pressing
Country:  US
Released:  1974
Genre:  Funk / Soul
Style:  Funk, Disco

Tracklist Credits
A1 Lady Marmalade 3:57
A2 Somebody Somewhere 3:26
A3 Are You Lonely?
Drums – Smokey Johnson  3:13
A4 It Took A Long Time
Drums – Smokey Johnson  4:04
A5 Don’t Bring Me Down 2:50
B1 What Can I Do For You? 4:03
B2 Nightbird 3:10
B3 Space Children 3:03
B4 All Girl Band 3:51
B5 You Turn Me On 4:38

Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Sea-Saint Studio
Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.
Copyright (c) – Gospel Birds, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
Copyright (c) – Marsaint Music, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Stone Diamond Music Corp.
Copyright (c) – Tanny Boy Music
Copyright (c) – Kenny Nolan Publishing
Copyright (c) – Saturday Music, Inc.
Published By – Gospel Birds, Inc.
Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
Published By – Marsaint Music, Inc.
Published By – Stone Diamond Music Corp.
Published By – Tanny Boy Music
Published By – Kenny Nolan Publishing
Published By – Saturday Music, Inc.
Manufactured By – Epic Records
Lacquer Cut At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

Credits
Alto Saxophone – Clarence Ford
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Earl Turbinton
Baritone Saxophone – Carl Blonin*
Bass – George Porter, Jr., Walter Payton (tracks: A4)
Drums – Herman Villere Ernest III* (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B5)
Engineer – Ken Laxton
Executive-Producer – Vicki Wickham
Featuring – The Meters
Guitar – Rev Batts* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5), Leo Nocentelli
Lacquer Cut By – SJR*
Organ – Arthur Neville*
Piano – Bud Ellison* (tracks: A4, A5, B4)
Producer, Arranged By, Keyboards, Percussion, Guitar – Allen Toussaint
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Alvin Thomas, Lon Price
Trombone – Lester Caliste
Trumpet – Clyde Kerr Jr., Steve Howard

Notes
Recorded At Sea-Saint Studios, New Orleans

All publishers were affiliated with BMI except for Kenny Nolan Publishing, which was affiliated with ASCAP.

LP housed in lyric sleeve.

This version is the Terre Haute pressing variation and can be identified by the label typesetting and by the pressing plant’s ‘T#’ etching found in the runout grooves.