Sky High!

{{Infobox album

| name = Sky High!

| type = Studio

| artist = Tavares

| cover = tavaressky.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 1976

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Total Experience Recording Studios
(Hollywood, California)

| genre = R&B, soul, disco

| length = 39:46

| label = Capitol

| producer = Freddie Perren

| prev_title = In the City

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Love Storm

| next_year = 1977

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000914521 |label=Sky High! review |first=Alex |last=Henderson |accessdate=2017-02-05}}

| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

| rev2Score = B−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: T|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=T&bk=70|accessdate=March 15, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Sky High! is the fourth studio album by the American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1976 on the Capitol label.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at no. 20 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached no. 24 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", which peaked at no. 3 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and no. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Don't Take Away the Music", which charted at no. 14 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and no. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs reach no. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Track listing

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = The Mighty Power of Love

| writer1 = Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren

| length1 = 3:58

| title2 = Ridin' High

| writer2 = Feliciano Tavares, Keni St. Lewis

| length2 = 4:05

| title3 = To the Other Man

| writer3 = Luther Ingram, Randall Stewart, Johnny Northern, Johnny Baylor

| length3 = 4:34

| title4 = Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel

| writer4 = Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren

| length4 = 6:32

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title5 = Bein' with You

| writer5 = Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren

| length5 = 3:45

| title6 = Wonderful

| writer6 = Homer Banks, Carl Hampton

| length6 = 4:00

| title7 = Guiding Star

| writer7 = Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren

| length7 = 6:34

| title8 = Don't Take Away the Music

| writer8 = Keni St. Lewis, Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian

| length8 = 6:18

}}

Personnel

James Gadson – drums
John Barnes – piano
Scott Edwards – bass
Bob "Boogie" Bowles, Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin – guitar
Bob Zimmitti, Paulinho Magalhaes, Paulinho da Costa, Freddie Perren – percussion
Electric Ivory Experience (John Barnes, Bob Robitaille) – synthesizers

Charts

Album

class="wikitable"

!Chart (1976)

!Peaks
{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f[0]=ts_chart_artistname%3ATavares&f[1]=ss_bb_type%3Achart_item&type=2&artist=Tavares|title=US Charts > Tavares|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=16 May 2017}}

Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=305}}

|align="center"|36

U.S. Billboard Top LPs

|align="center"|24

U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs

|align="center"|20

Singles

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! colspan="3"\| Peaks
style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="35"\| US ! width="35"\| US R&B ! width="35"\| US Dan
rowspan="2"\|1976 \| align="left"\| "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" \| 15 \| 3 \| rowspan="2"\| 1
align="left"\| "Don't Take Away the Music" \| 34 \| 14

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="3"| Peaks

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="35"| US

! width="35"| US
R&B

! width="35"| US
Dan

rowspan="2"|1976

| align="left"| "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"

| 15

| 3