STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - WAR - THE WORLD IS A GHETTO

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Good morning Wednesday warriors and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. It was on this day in 1973, that Long Beach based soul-funk-jazz- fusion band WAR, started a two week run at #1 on Billboard's album chart with their fifth record, The World Is a Ghetto. The LP was released in November of 1972, on the United Artists label and produced by Jerry Goldstein with Lonnie Jordan and Howard E. Scott. The title track (#7 Hot 100, #3 R&B) and  "The Cisco Kid" (#5 R&B, #2 Hot 100) were released as singles.

"The Cisco Kid" – 4:35

"Where Was You At" – 3:25

"City, Country, City" – 13:18

Side two

"Four Cornered Room" – 8:30

"The World Is a Ghetto" – 10:10

"Beetles in the Bog" – 3:51

Howard Scott – guitar, percussion, vocals
B.B. Dickerson – bass, percussion, vocals
Lonnie Jordan – organ, piano, timbales, percussion, vocals
Harold Brown – drums, percussion, vocals
Papa Dee Allen – conga, bongos, percussion, vocals
Charles Miller – clarinet, alto, tenor and baritone saxes, percussion, vocals
Lee Oskar – harmonica, percussion, vocals