Double Fun

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Though only the most studious aficionados of '70s music know it, Robert Palmer’s fourth solo album—1978’s <i>Double Fun</i>—contains many of the decade’s great cross-genre congregations. Not only did Palmer have excellent taste in records; he was the kind of fan who studied the credits on the back of albums. In addition to featuring his longstanding friends and collaborators in Little Feat, <i>Every Kinda People</i> engages the talents of superior sidemen like bassist Bob Babbitt, a member of Motown’s house band from 1966 to 1972. If that weren’t enough, this is the only album in history to include two of music’s most innovative producers: Tom Moulton (disco figurehead and inventor of the remix) and Lee “Scratch” Perry (the mad genius of Jamaican dub). Throughout <i>Double Fun</i>, listeners can feel the lushness and hypnotism of disco blending with Palmer’s taste for Caribbean music. From this stew of ideas came Palmer’s highest-charting hit to that date, “Every Kinda People”; it exudes windswept momentum and desire reminiscent of Marvin Gaye’s epochal “What’s Going On.”

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