''Cardiac Arrest'' is the debut album by 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.
The album reached number 16 on the R&B charts.
It contains the hit singles "
Rigor Mortis
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" and "Funk Funk".
Critical reception
Rickey Vincent, in ''Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One'', deemed the album an "exquisite
xampleof the fertile, erotic realm of R&B-based funk at its most stretched out."
Track listing
Personnel
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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 ...
– lead vocals, drums, percussion
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Gregory Johnson – keyboards, piano, vocals
*William Revis – bass guitar
*Eric Durham – guitar
*Arnett Leftenant – saxophone
*Nathan Leftenant – trumpet
*Tomi Jenkins, Kurt Jetter – vocals
Charts
Singles
References
External links
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1977 debut albums
Cameo (band) albums