Hard Core Poetry

Hard Core Poetry
Hard Core Poetry
Studio album by Tavares
Released	September 1974
Studio	Sound Labs; (Hollywood, California)
Genre	R&B, soul
Length	34:25
Label	Capitol
Producer	Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
Tavares chronology

Hard Core Poetry is the second studio album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1974 on the Capitol label.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Too Late", which peaked at No. 10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, Hall & Oates' "She's Gone", which charted at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Remember What I Told You to Forget", which reached No. 4 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Someone to Go Home To"		3:15
2.	"She's Gone"	Daryl Hall, John Oates	3:38
3.	"My Ship"		3:26
4.	"Leave It Up to the Lady"		3:30
5.	"To Love You"		4:02

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Too Late"	4:26
7.	"Remember What I Told You to Forget"	4:10
8.	"What You Don't Know"	3:54
9.	"Hard Core Poetry"	4:23

Personnel

Tavares

Butch Tavares
Chubby Tavares
Pooch Tavares
Ralph Tavares
Tiny Tavares

with:

Jeana Jackson - introductory narration on "To Love You"
Michael Omartian - keyboards, arrangements, conductor
Dennis Lambert – keyboards
Wilton Felder, Scott Edwards – bass
Ed Greene – drums
Larry Carlton, Dean Parks, Ben Benay – guitar
Gary Coleman, Brian Potter – percussion
Sid Sharp – string concertmaster
The Boogie Symphony – strings

Technical

Joe Sidore - recording engineer
Larkin Arnold - executive producer
Roy Kohara - art direction
Richard Rankin - cover photography

Charts

Album

Chart (1974)	Peaks ^[2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	121
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	11

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
Year	Single	US ^[2]	US R&B ^[2]
1974	"Too Late"	59	10
1974	"She's Gone"	50	1
1975	"Remember What I Told You to Forget"/"My Ship"	25	4

References

^ Henderson, Alex. Hard Core Poetry review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
^ ^a ^b ^c "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

External links

Hard Core Poetry at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Henderson, Alex. Hard Core Poetry review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.

[us-2] "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

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