That Is Why You're Overweight
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{{Infobox album
| name = That Is Why You're Overweight
| type = Album
| artist = Eddie Harris
| cover = That Is Why You're Overweight.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1976
| recorded = 1975
The Village Recorder, Los Angeles and Brunswick Recording Studios, Chicago
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 42:53
| label = Atlantic
SD 1683
| producer =
| chronology = Eddie Harris
| prev_title = Bad Luck Is All I Have
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t
| next_year = 1975
}}
That Is Why You're Overweight is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1975 and released on the Atlantic label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1600-series/#sd-1683 Atlantic Records discography] accessed May 15, 2012[http://www.eddieharris.com/#discography Eddie Harris Discography], accessed June 22, 2017
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 96
}}
}}
The Allmusic review stated: "Some of this stuff hits, some of it misses... all of it suggests that Harris' curiosity and impatience had him flailing around in search of a direction".Ginell, R. S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/that-is-why-youre-overweight-r151954 Allmusic Review] accessed May 15, 2012
Track listing
All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated
- "It's All Right Now" – 3:56
- "Why Do You Hurt Me" (Harris, Bradley Bobo) – 4:19
- "Flowers" – 4:59
- "That Is Why You're Overweight" (Harris, Sara Harris, Yvonne Harris) – 7:25
- "Tryin' Ain't Dyin'" – 7:30
- "Live Again" (Ronald Muldrow) – 4:18
- "Ooh" – 2:49
- "Exempt" – 7:37
Personnel
- Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone, electric piano, vocals
- Ronald Muldrow – guitar, guitorgan vocals
- Bradley Bobo – bass, 6 string bass, vocals
- Paul Humphrey, Terry Thompson – drums
- Buck Clarke – bongos, percussion, tambourine
- Calvin Barnes – drums, percussion, vocals
- Marshall Thompson – percussion (track 5)
- Bob Ramey – rhythm synthesizer (track 1)
- Muhal Richard Abrams (track 5), Bobby Lyle (track 2) – electric piano
- Odell Brown – organ (track 5)
- Lou Gonzales, Joe Romano – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 2, 4 & 8)
- Burgess Gardner, Frank Gordon – trumpet (track 5)
- Steve Galloway (track 5), Al Hall Jr. (tracks 2, 4 & 8), Maurice Spears (tracks 2, 4 & 8) – trombone
- Delbert Hill – baritone saxophone, oboe, bassoon, tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 4 & 8)
- Willie Henderson – baritone saxophone (track 5)
- Edmund Lee Bauer, Sol Bobrov, E. Zlatoff Mirsky – violin (track 5)
- Bruce K. Hayden, Harold H. Kupper – viola (track 5)
- Karl B. Fruh – cello (track 5)
- Vivian Harrell, Marilyn Haywood, Mary Ann Stewart, Stephana Loeb, Karen Patterson, Nancy Shanks – vocals
- Gerald Lee – arranger
References
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