I Love My Music

{{Infobox album

| name = I Love My Music

| type = Album

| artist = Wild Cherry

| cover = I Love My Music.jpg

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| released = 1978

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Funk

| length =

| label = Epic

| producer = Carl Maduri, Robert Parissi

| prev_title = Electrified Funk

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Only the Wild Survive

| next_year = 1979

}}

I Love My Music is the third studio album by Wild Cherry, released in 1978. It includes "Don't Stop, Get Off", a single with no lyrics outside the title itself, sung in a strident voice, backed by horns playing a funky riff. Also featured on the album is "1 2 3 Kind of Love", which, while never released as a single, did receive radio airplay.

The album entered Billboard{{'}}s Top 200 chart in early February 1978, then rose to its highest position at number 84 during the week of April 8.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1978-04-08|title=Billboard 200 Chart|magazine=Billboard}}

Critical reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r52684}}

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The Bay State Banner wrote that Wild Cherry are "the first white bar band in this country (AWB are Scottish) to so completely opt for slick and tasty party funk instead of the usual Chicago blues... Wild Cherry plays lots of gently funky, mid-tempo soul-man songs."{{cite news |last1=Freedberg |first1=Mike |title=Record Reviews |work=Bay State Banner |issue=21 |date=2 Mar 1978 |page=15}} The Globe and Mail determined that "they cop all the good licks Sly Stone and James Brown sweated over, drain a little of the raw creativity out of them, and turn them into lovable pop."{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Paul |title=Wild Cherry |work=The Globe and Mail |date=15 Feb 1978 |page=F2}}

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rob Parissi; except where indicated

"I Love My Music"
"Lana"
"It's the Same Old Song" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Try One More Time"
"Don't Stop, Get Off"
"1 2 3 Kind of Love"
"No Way Out Love Affair"
"If You Want My Love" (W. Stoddart)
"Fools Fall in Love"
"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland-Smoy)

References

Category:1978 albums

Category:Wild Cherry (band) albums

Category:Epic Records albums