Love Uprising

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{{Infobox album

| name = Love Uprising

| type = Studio

| artist = Tavares

| cover = tavaresuprising.jpg

| alt =

| released = December 1980

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = R&B, soul

| length = 40:56

| label = Capitol

| producer = Benjamin Wright

| prev_title = Supercharged

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = Loveline

| next_year = 1981

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score ={{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/love-uprising-mw0001102944|title=Love Uprising - Tavares | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=53}}

|rev3 = The New Rolling Stone Record Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Record Guide |date=1983 |publisher=Random House |page=503}}

}}

Love Uprising is an album by the American soul/R&B group Tavares.{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Bill |title=Music |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=29 Nov 1980 |department=Weekend |page=28}} It was produced by Benjamin Wright and released in 1980 on Capitol Records.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT48|title=New Album Is Fulfilling To Tavares|work=Billboard|date=November 8, 1980|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}} Love Uprising at the time was Tavares' least successful album, their first to fail to register on either the pop or the R&B top 100.

Track listing

  1. "Only One I Need to Love" (Jerry Taylor) - 3:12
  2. "Break Down for Love" (Benjamin Wright, Kathy Wakefield, Feliciano Tavares) - 4:39
  3. "Love Uprising" (Angela Winbush, René Moore) - 5:40
  4. "Loneliness" (Benjamin Wright, Louis Price) - 3:12
  5. "Knock the Wall Down" (Stephen Kipner) - 2:55
  6. "Hot Love" (Benjamin Wright, Kathy Wakefield, Feliciano Tavares) - 3:06
  7. "Don't Wanna Say Goodnight" (Keith Echols, Anthony Miller, Alice Sanderson) - 3:35
  8. "Do You Believe in Love" (Benjamin Wright, Kathy Wakefield, Feliciano Tavares, Perry Tavares) - 3:35
  9. "She Can Wait Forever" (Geoffrey Leib) - 3:36
  10. "In This Lovely World" (Jerry Taylor) - 3:45
  11. "Life Time of Love" (Geoffrey Leib) - 3:11

Singles

  • "Love Uprising" (US R&B #17)
  • "Loneliness" (US R&B #64)

References