Wake Up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes album)

Wake Up Everybody is an album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in November 1975. It was produced by Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff. This would be the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career.

Wake Up Everybody
Studio album by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Released	November 29, 1975
Studio	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre	R&B
Length	39:01
Label	Philadelphia International PZ 33808
Producer	Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes chronology
To Be True (1975) Wake Up Everybody (1975) Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]

The album features the hit singles "Wake Up Everybody" and "Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby". "Don't Leave Me This Way", which would be reinterpreted two years later by Thelma Houston, was a hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #5. The lead vocal on the closing album track, "Searching for a Love", was performed virtually solo by Sharon Paige, who also performed duet duties with Pendergrass and Melvin on the song "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good."

The album was remastered and reissued with a bonus track, a Tom Moulton remixed version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", in 2008 by Legacy Recordings.

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstarphen, except where noted.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wake Up Everybody"		7:30
2.	"Keep on Lovin' You"		3:40
3.	"You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	5:17

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Don't Leave Me This Way"	Gamble, Huff, Cary Gilbert	6:08
5.	"Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby"		5:54
6.	"To Be Free to Be Who We Are"		5:09
7.	"I'm Searching for a Love"	Gamble, Huff	5:23

2008 remastered reissue bonus track

No.	Title	Length
8.	"Don't Leave Me This Way" (A Tom Moulton Mix)	7:05

Personnel

• Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals
• Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good" and "I'm Searching for a Love"
• MFSB – music
• Edward Soyka – illustrations, artwork

Charts

Chart (1975)	Peak [3]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	9
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	1

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US [3]	US R&B [3]	US Dance [3]	UK [4]
1975	"Wake Up Everybody (Part 1)"	12	1	—	23
1976	"Tell the World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby"	94	7	4	—
1977	"Don't Leave Me This Way"	—	—	—	5

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1976