# Strikes Again
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{{Infobox album
| name = Strikes Again
| type = Studio
| artist = [Rose Royce](/source/Rose_Royce)
| cover = Strikes Again 1978.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 11, 1978
| recorded = 1977–1978
| venue =
| studio = Fort Knox
([Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles))
| genre = [Funk](/source/Funk), [soul](/source/soul_music), [disco](/source/disco)
| length = 39:10
| label = [Whitfield](/source/Whitfield_Records)
| producer = [Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield)
| prev_title = [In Full Bloom](/source/In_Full_Bloom_(Rose_Royce_album))
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = [Rainbow Connection IV](/source/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](/source/Love_Don't_Live_Here_Anymore)
| single2date = November 1978
| single3 = First Come, First Serve
| single3date = March 1979
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r2031592 |tab=review |label=''Strikes Again'' review |first=Andrew |last=Hamilton |accessdate=2012-05-08}}]
|rev2 = ''[The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul](/source/Colin_Larkin)''
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin |page=286}}]
}}
'''''Strikes Again''''' is the third album by [funk](/source/funk) band [Rose Royce](/source/Rose_Royce).[{{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}}] It was released on the [Whitfield](/source/Whitfield_Records) label in August 1978. It was produced by [Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield).
==History==
The album peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' [R&B albums chart](/source/Top_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Albums) and number 28 on the [''Billboard'' Top LPs](/source/Billboard_200) chart. It yielded two [Billboard R&B](/source/Hot_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Songs) top ten singles, "I'm in Love (And I Love the Feeling)" and "[Love Don't Live Here Anymore](/source/Love_Don't_Live_Here_Anymore)". "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was also successful on the [UK Singles Chart](/source/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](/source/Cherry_Red_Records).
==Track listing==
All songs written by [Norman Whitfield](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Undisputed_Truth)
| 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Melvin_%22Wah-Wah_Watson%22_Ragin), [Cornelius Grant](/source/Cornelius_Grant) – guitar
*Jimmy Valdez – drums
*Walter Downing – organ
*Mark Kenoly – bass
*[Jack Ashford](/source/Jack_Ashford) – percussion
;Production
*[Norman Whitfield](/source/Norman_Whitfield): arrangements, production and mastering
*Leanard Jackson: recording and mastering engineer
*Steve Smith: recording engineer
*[Gene Page](/source/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](/source/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=258}}]
|align="center"|44
|-
|[UK Albums Chart](/source/UK_Albums_Chart)[{{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"|7
|-
|US [''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"|28
|-
|US ''Billboard'' [Top Soul LPs](/source/Top_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Albums)
|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](/source/Billboard_Hot_100)
R&B](/source/Hot_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Songs)