Magicians Holiday

Magicians Holiday is the debut album by The Gap Band in 1974 on Shelter Records.

Magicians Holiday
Studio album by The Gap Band
Released	1974
Studio	Shelter Church Studio (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Genre	Soul, funk
Length	35:42
Label	Shelter
Producer	Buddy Jones
The Gap Band chronology
Magicians Holiday (1974) The Gap Band (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Buddy Jones and Charles Wilson, except where noted
All tracks arranged by The Gap Band.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I-Yike-It"	Tom Lokey	2:46
2.	"Backbone"		2:36
3.	"After All Is Said and Done"		3:25
4.	"Fontessa Fame"		4:30
5.	"You Can Always Count on Me"		5:00

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Bad Girl"		3:30
7.	"Easy Life"	Buddy Jones, Kay Poorboy	3:50
8.	"Loving You Is Everything"		3:40
9.	"Tommy's Groove"	Tom Lokey	3:32
10.	"Magicians Holiday"		2:53

Personnel

The Gap Band

• Charles Wilson – lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, Clavinet, organ
• Ronnie Wilson – backing vocals, trumpet
• Robert Wilson – backing vocals, bass
• Roscoe Smith – drums
• O'Dell Stokes – guitar
• Tommy Lokey – trumpet
• Alvin Jones – trombone
• Chris Clayton – saxophone
• Carl Scoggins – congas, percussions

with:

• Jamie Oldaker – drums on "Easy Life"
• Wayne Perkins - guitar on "Bad Girl" and "Loving You Is Everything"
• Tuck Andress - guitar on "Tommy's Groove"

Technical

• Kirk Bressler - engineer
• Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff - remixing engineer
• Tom Wilkes - album design, front cover photography

Samples

• "Tommy's Groove"
  • "Ragtime"" by Brand Nubian on their One For All album.^[2]