''Alligator Woman'' is a 1982 album by the American

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...

band Cameo, released by

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. It is the group's eighth studio album, and the first released after group leader

Larry Blackmon Larry Ernest Blackmon (born May 29, 1956) is an American vocalist and musician, known as the lead singer, founder and frontman of the funk and R&B band Cameo. Musical career Starting the band "East Coast", Blackmon formed the "New York Ci ...

reduced the band from 11 members to 5 (himself, Tomi Jenkins, Nathan Leftenant, Charlie Singleton, and Gregory Johnson (who would leave the band prior to their next album). ''Alligator Woman'' combined Cameo's traditional funk with elements of rock and new wave, and was the band's fifth consecutive album to be certified Gold by the

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for sales of over 500,000 copies. The cover artwork model is the Canadian singer/model

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(Denise Matthews).

Track listing

Personnel

Cameo *

– lead and backing vocals, drums, percussion * Tomi Jenkins – lead and backing vocals * Gregory B. Johnson –

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s, backing vocals * Charlie Singleton – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, lead guitars * Nathan Leftenant – trumpet, backing vocals, horn arrangements Additional musicians * Kevin Kendricks – Fender Rhodes,

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* Randy Stern –

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* Michael Burnett – bass guitar * Webster Jackson – saxophones * Lloyd Oby – trombone, backing vocals * Stacey Cole – trumpet * Walter Perry – trumpet * Tina Jackson – backing vocals * Anita Robinson – backing vocals * Vickie Smith – backing vocals * Sheila Weaver – backing vocals

Production

* Larry Blackmon – producer, mixing * Tom Race – engineer, mixing * Jack Skinner – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY) * Bob Heimall – art direction * Bill Levy – art direction * Mo Ström – design *

Anthony Barboza Anthony Barboza (born 1944 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is a photographer, historian, artist and writer. With roots originating from Cape Verde, and work that began in commercial art more than forty years ago, Barboza's artistic talents and ...

– photography

Charts

Weekly charts

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References

Cameo (band) albums 1982 albums Casablanca Records albums {{1980s-R&B-album-stub