Strikes Again

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Strikes Again | type = Studio | artist = Rose Royce | cover = Strikes Again 1978.jpg | alt = | released = August 11, 1978 | recorded = 1977–1978 | venue = | studio = Fort Knox (Los Angeles, California) | genre = Funk, soul, disco | length = 39:10 | label = Whitfield | producer = Norman Whitfield | prev_title = In Full Bloom | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = Rainbow Connection IV | next_year = 1979 | misc = {{Singles | name = Strikes Again | type = Studio | single1 = I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling) | single1date = July 1978 | single2 = Love Don't Live Here Anymore | single2date = November 1978 | single3 = First Come, First Serve | single3date = March 1979 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 =AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r2031592 |tab=review |label=''Strikes Again'' review |first=Andrew |last=Hamilton |accessdate=2012-05-08}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin |page=286}}</ref> }} '''''Strikes Again''''' is the third album by funk band Rose Royce.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goodson |first1=David |title=Giving Gwen Dickey her due |work=New York Amsterdam News |issue=14 |date=1 Apr 2010 |page=9}}</ref> It was released on the Whitfield label in August 1978. It was produced by Norman Whitfield.

==History== The album peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' R&B albums chart and number 28 on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart. It yielded two Billboard R&B top ten singles, "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was also successful on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number two, their highest charting single in the UK. A third single, "First Come, First Serve", peaked at number 65 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2016 by Big Break Records.

==Track listing== All songs written by Norman Whitfield unless otherwise noted. {{Track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = Get Up Off Your Fat | writer1 = | length1 = 4:35 | title2 = Do It, Do It | writer2 = | length2 = 4:09 | title3 = I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling) | writer3 = | length3 = 3:41 | title4 = First Come, First Serve | writer4 = | length4 = 3:19 | title5 = Love Don't Live Here Anymore | writer5 = Miles Gregory | length5 = 3:56 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title6 = Angel in the Sky | writer6 = Billie Calvin | length6 = 4:56 | title7 = Help | writer7 = Robert Daniels | length7 = 3:53 | title8 = Let Me Be the First to Know | writer8 = Gregory | length8 = 3:52 | title9 = That's What's Wrong with Me | writer9 = Whitfield, Rose Royce | length9 = 6:37 }} {{Track listing | headline = 2016 remastered reissue bonus tracks | title10 = First Come, First Serve | note10 = Single Version | length10 = 3:27 | title11 = Love Don't Live Here Anymore | note11 = Single Version | length11 = 3:51 | title12 = That's What's Wrong with Me | note12 = Single Version | length12 = 5:33 }}

==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 *Victor Nyx, Mark Davis – keyboards *Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, Cornelius Grant – guitar *Jimmy Valdez – drums *Walter Downing – organ *Mark Kenoly – bass *Jack Ashford – percussion

;Production *Norman Whitfield: arrangements, production and mastering *Leanard Jackson: recording and mastering engineer *Steve Smith: recording engineer *Gene Page: orchestral direction *Eleven Twenty-Four Design: art direction, design *Andy Engel: lettering *Bobby Holland, Jeffrey Mayer: photography *Pamela Clare: cover illustration *Bill Whitfield: album coordinator

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Chart (1978–1979) !Peak position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{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=258}}</ref> |align="center"|44 |- |UK Albums Chart<ref name="uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/rose%20royce/|title=UK Charts > Rose Royce|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=2012-11-23}}</ref> |align="center"|7 |- |US ''Billboard'' Top LPs<ref name="allmusic">{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5307/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=US Charts > Rose Royce|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2012-11-23}}</ref> |align="center"|28 |- |US ''Billboard'' Top Soul LPs |align="center"|4 |- |}

;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 <ref name="allmusic"/> ! width="40"| US R&B <ref name="allmusic"/> ! width="40"| UK <ref name="uk"/> |- | rowspan="2"|1978 | align="left"| "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" | — | 5 | 51 |- | align="left"| "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" | 32 | 5 | 2 |- | rowspan="1"|1979 | align="left"| "First Come, First Serve" | — | 65 | — |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{discogs master|111764|Strikes Again}}

Category:1978 albums Category:Rose Royce albums Category:Albums produced by Norman Whitfield Category:Whitfield Records albums