Funky Serenity | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1973 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 48:07 | |||
Label | Columbia KC 32030 | |||
Producer | Ramsey Lewis | |||
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Funky Serenity is an album by the pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1973 on Columbia Records. The album got to No. 6 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[1]
"Dreams" was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest on the song "Electric Relaxation", from their 1993 LP Midnight Marauders. Beck also sampled "My Love For You" on the song "Debra."[2][3]
"My Love For You" was also sampled by Musiq Soulchild on the track "Girl Next Door." What's more, Lewis' rendition of Luther Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" was sampled by The Fugees on "Fu-Gee-La."[3][4]
Producer Kanye West also sampled Lewis' cover of The Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly, Wow" for the Mariah Carey song "Stay the Night" on her 2005 LP The Emancipation of Mimi.[5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [7] |
Andrew Hamilton of AllMusic called the album "enjoyable and essential".[8]
All compositions by Cleveland Eaton, Morris Jennings and Ramsey Lewis except as indicated