''Mixin' It Up'' is the seventh studio

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

by American soul-disco group,

The Trammps The Trammps are an American disco and soul band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was their 1972 cover version of " Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", while the first disc ...

, released in 1980 through

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Commercial performance

The album features the single "Hard Rock and Disco", which peaked at No. 76 on the

Hot Dance Club Play The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...

chart.

Track listing

Personnel

;The Trammps * Earl Young *Harold Wade *Stanley Wade *Robert Upchurch *Jimmy Ellis ;Additional personnel * Norman Harris, T.J. Tindall, Roland Chambers,

Bobby Eli Bobby Eli (born Eli Tatarsky; March 2, 1946 – August 17, 2023) was an American musician, arranger, composer and record producer from Philadelphia. He was a founding member and lead guitarist of Philadelphia studio band MFSB. Overview Bobby ...

– guitars * Ronnie Baker, Vince Fay – bass *Eugene Curry,

Cotton Kent Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cel ...

Ron Kersey Tyrone Garfield Kersey (April 7, 1949 – January 25, 2005), known as Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, was an American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger most known for writing the music to " Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Kersey was born in ...

, Bruce Gray, Lenny Pakula – keyboards * Earl Young – drums * Vincent Montana Jr. – vibraphone *Larry Washington, James Walker, Weldon McDougall – percussion *Don Renaldo & His Strings – strings (except on "Let Me Dance Real Close" strings by Paul Schorr & His Strings) *Reuben Henderson, Harold Watkins, Artie Williams, Joseph Smithers, Jr. – horns (except on "Let Me Dance Real Close" horns by Maurice Spears & His Horns)

References

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* {{Authority control 1980 albums The Trammps albums Albums recorded at Sigma Sound Studios Albums recorded at Total Experience Recording Studios Atlantic Records albums