Feets, Don't Fail Me Now

Feets, Don't Fail Me Now is the twenty-seventh album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. The record was released in February 1979, on the Columbia Records label.

This article is about the Herbie Hancock album. For similar phrases, see Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (disambiguation).
Feets, Don't Fail Me Now
Studio album by
Herbie Hancock
ReleasedFebruary 1979
Recorded1978
The Automatt, San Francisco
GenreElectronic, funk, jazz, disco
Length40:38
LabelColumbia
ProducerDavid Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock chronology
Directstep
(1979)		 Feets, Don't Fail Me Now
(1979)		 The Piano
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Smash Hits5/10[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Overview

This was the first of Hancock's albums to discard jazz and funk completely in favor of a more commercial (at the time) disco sound, with vocoder effects and repetitive lyrics. All LP and CD editions after the first pressing use an alternate version of "Tell Everybody". The original version was included as a bonus track on the disc in the Complete Columbia Albums Collection box set.

Track listing
  1. "You Bet Your Love" (Herbie Hancock, David Rubinson, Allee Willis, Jeffrey Cohen) – 7:41
  2. "Trust Me" (Hancock, Rubinson, Allee Willis) – 5:44
  3. "Ready or Not" (Ray Parker Jr., Cohen) – 6:48
  4. "Tell Everybody" (Hancock, Rubinson, Bruce Good, Cohen) – 7:49
  5. "Honey From the Jar" (Hancock, Cohen) – 6:53
  6. "Knee Deep" (Hancock, Melvin Ragin) – 5:43

Personnel
  • Herbie Hancock – lead and background vocals, all keyboards
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Eddie Watkins – bass
  • Ray Obiedo – guitar
  • Bill Summers – percussion
  • Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters and Luther Waters – background vocals
  • Ray Parker, Jr. – guitar and drums on "Ready or Not"
  • Coke Escovedo – timbales on "Ready or Not"
  • Sheila Escovedo – congas on "Ready or Not"
  • James Levi – drums on "Knee Deep" and "Trust Me"
  • Freddie Washington – bass on "Knee Deep"
  • Wah Wah Watson – guitar on "Knee Deep"
  • Bennie Maupin – soprano sax on "Knee Deep"

Additional personnel
  • Produced by – David Rubinson & Friends Inc. and Herbie Hancock
  • Associate producer – Jeffrey Cohen
  • Engineers – Fred Catero and David Rubinson
  • Assistant engineers – Chris Minto, Leslie Ann Jones, Ken Kassie and Cheryl Ward
  • Mastering engineer – Phil Brown
  • Keyboard and Vocoder engineer – Bryan Bell
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References
  1. Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Feets Don't Fail Me Now - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  2. Starr, Red. "Albums". Smash Hits (February 22 - March 7, 1979): 25.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 94. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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