A Rock and Roll Alternative
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For the Tamia song, see So Into You.
A Rock and Roll Alternative is an album
by southern rock
band Atlanta Rhythm Section
, released in 1976. (See 1976 in music
). This album featured the band's biggest hit, "So into You", which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100
.
Singles
A Rock and Roll Alternative is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by southern rock
Southern rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals...
band Atlanta Rhythm Section
Atlanta Rhythm Section
The Atlanta Rhythm Section, sometimes abbreviated ARS, is an American southern rock band. In 1970 former members of the Candymen and the Classics IV joined together and became the session band for the newly opened Studio One in Doraville, Georgia....
, released in 1976. (See 1976 in music
1976 in music
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). This album featured the band's biggest hit, "So into You", which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
.
Track listing
- "Sky High" (Buie, Daughtry, Hammond, Nix) – 5:17
- "Hitch-Hikers' Hero" (Buie, Nix) – 3:38
- "Don't Miss the Message" (Buie, Cobb, Nix) – 3:27
- "Georgia Rhythm" (Buie, Cobb, Nix) – 4:52
- "So into You" (Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 4:20
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) – 4:53 - "Everybody Gotta Go" (Buie, Daughtry, Nix) – 4:10
- "Neon Nites" (Buie, Nix) – 3:57
Personnel
- Barry Bailey – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Buddy Buie – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- J.R. Cobb – rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, background vocals - Dean Daughtry – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Paul Goddard – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Ronnie Hammond – vocals, background vocals
- Robert Nix – percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, vocals, background vocals
Production
- Producer: Buddy Buie
- Associate producers: J.R. Cobb, Robert Nix
- Engineer: Rodney Mills
- Mixing: Rodney Mills
- Remixing: Suha Gur
- Design: Mike McCarty
- Art direction: Buddy Buie, Mike McCarty
- Photography: Jim Wiggins
Charts
AlbumYear | Chart | Position |
---|---|---|
1977 | Pop Albums | 11 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
---|---|---|---|
1977 | "So Into You" | Pop Singles | 7 (#2 Can.) |
1977 | "Georgia Rhythm" | Pop Singles | 68 |
1977 | "Neon Nites" | Pop Singles | 42 |