African Queens is the fourth studio album recorded by American female vocal trio the Ritchie Family, released in 1977 on the Marlin label.
Contents
History
The album features the track, "Quiet Village", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart along with songs "African Queens" and "Summer Dance". "Quiet Village" also peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
Critical reception
The Bay State Banner wrote that "the music moves swiftly via massive string swoops and spurts of high hat drumming, jetting far away from present reality towards exotic distances only the world of fantasy can reckon."
Personnel
Gwendolyn Oliver, Cassandra Ann Wooten and Cheryl Mason Jacks - Vocalists
Russell Dabney – drums
Alfonso Carey – Fender bass
Jimmy Lee – lead guitar
Rodger Lee – rhythm guitar
Nathaniel "Crocket" Wilke – Fender Rhodes electric piano, clavinet
Babatunde Olatunji – Ngoma drums, Shekere, bongos
Ralph MacDonald – tambourines, triangle, bell tree, cowbell
Mario Grillo – timbales
Anthony Robinson – congas
J.M. Diatta – ngoma drums
Charles Payne – Djembe
Production
Jacques Morali – producer, rhythm, percussion and vocal arrangements
Henri Belolo – executive producer
Phil Hurtt – vocal arrangements
Horace Ott – strings and horns arrangements
Gerald Block – engineer
Carla Bandini, Jeff Stewart – assistant engineers
John Galluzzi – photographer
Charts
Singles