# Rainbow Connection IV
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{{Infobox album
| name = Rainbow Connection IV
| type = Studio album
| artist = [Rose Royce](/source/Rose_Royce)
| cover = Rainbow Connection 1979.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 17, 1979
| recorded = Fort Knox
([Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles))
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [Funk](/source/Funk), [soul](/source/soul_music), [disco](/source/disco)
| length = 44:30
| label = [Whitfield](/source/Whitfield_Records)
| producer = [Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield)
| prev_title = [Strikes Again](/source/Strikes_Again)
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = [Greatest Hits](/source/Greatest_Hits_(Rose_Royce_album))
| next_year = 1980
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Rainbow Connection IV
| type = Studio
| single1 = [Is It Love You're After](/source/Is_It_Love_You're_After)
| single1date = August 1979
| single2 = What You Waitin' For
| single2date = November 1979
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r2031559 |tab=review |label=''Rainbow Connection IV'' review |first=Alex |last=Henderson |accessdate=2012-05-08}}]
| rev2 = ''[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)''
| rev2score = 8/10[{{cite magazine|last=Starr|first=Red|title=Albums|magazine=[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)|issue=September 20 – October 3, 1979|page=25}}]
|rev3 = ''[The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul](/source/Colin_Larkin)''
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}[{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin |page=286}}]
}}
'''''Rainbow Connection IV''''' is the fourth album by the [funk](/source/funk) band [Rose Royce](/source/Rose_Royce), released on the [Whitfield](/source/Whitfield_Records) label in 1979.[{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Funk |date=2001 |publisher=Backbeat Books |page=278}}] It was produced by [Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield). This would be the last album to include lead singer [Gwen Dickey](/source/Gwen_Dickey) before she left the group to embark on a solo career.
==History==
The album peaked at No. 22 on the [R&B albums chart](/source/Top_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Albums). It also reached No. 74 on the [''Billboard'' 200](/source/Billboard_200). Two singles were released from the album, "[Is It Love You're After](/source/Is_It_Love_You're_After)" and "What You Waitin' For". "Is It Love You're After" peaked at No. 31 on the [Billboard R&B Singles chart](/source/Hot_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Songs). It was more successful on the [UK Singles Chart](/source/UK_Singles_Chart), reaching No. 13. "What You Waitin' For" failed to chart. The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD in 2010 by [Wounded Bird Records](/source/Wounded_Bird_Records).
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column =
| title1 = I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
| note1 =
| length1 = 3:37
| writer1 = Robert Daniels
| extra1 =
| title2 = [Is It Love You're After](/source/Is_It_Love_You're_After)
| note2 =
| length2 = 5:01
| writer2 = Miles Gregory
| extra2 =
| title3 = Shine Your Light
| note3 =
| length3 = 5:26
| writer3 = Robert Daniels
| extra3 =
| title4 = What You Waitin' For
| note4 =
| length4 = 8:54
| writer4 = [Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield)
| extra4 =
| total_length =
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title5 = Bad Mother Funker
| writer5 = Norman Whitfield
| length5 = 4:41
| title6 = You Can't Run From Yourself
| writer6 = Norman Whitfield
| length6 = 5:43
| title7 = Lock It Down
| writer7 = Miles Gregory
| length7 = 5:59
| title8 = Pazazz
| writer8 = Michael Nash
| length8 = 4:47
}}
==Personnel==
;Rose Royce
*Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
*Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals
*Kenji Brown – guitar, lead vocals
*Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass, vocals
*Michael Nash – keyboards
*Henry Garner – drums, vocals
*Freddie Dunn – trumpet
*Michael Moore – saxophone
*Terry Santiel – congas
;Additional musicians
*Walter Downing – [clavinet](/source/clavinet), [Rhodes piano](/source/Rhodes_piano)
*Lafayette Trey Stone, Isy Martin, [Wah Wah Watson](/source/Wah_Wah_Watson) – guitar
*[Jack Ashford](/source/Jack_Ashford) – tambourine, [cowbell](/source/cowbell)
;Production
*[Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield) – producer, arranger, mixing engineer, album concept
*Michael Nash – producer ("Pazazz")
*Bruce Miller – string and horn arrangements
*Leanard Jackson, Steve Smith – recording engineer, mixing engineer
*Norman Moore – cover design
*Scott Hensell – photography
*Tim Bryant/Gribbitt! – art direction
*Bill Whitfield – album coordinator
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1979)
!Peak
position
|-
|U.S. [''Billboard'' Top LPs](/source/Billboard_200)[{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5307/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=US Charts > Rose Royce|publisher=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)|accessdate=2012-11-23}}]
|align="center"|74
|-
|U.S. ''Billboard'' [Top Soul LPs](/source/Top_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Albums)[{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/rose%20royce/|title=UK Charts > Rose Royce|publisher=[Official Charts Company](/source/Official_Charts_Company)|accessdate=2012-11-23}}]
|align="center"|72
|-
|}
;Singles
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single
! colspan="3"| Peak chart positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="40"| [US](/source/Billboard_Hot_100)
R&B](/source/Hot_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Songs)