Hard Core Poetry

Hard Core Poetry
Studio album by Tavares
Released	September 1974
Studio	Sound Labs (Hollywood, California)
Genre	R&B, soul
Length	34:25
Label	Capitol
Producer	Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
Tavares chronology
Check It Out (1974) Hard Core Poetry (1974) In the City (1975)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Hard Core Poetry is the second studio album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1974 on the Capitol label.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 12 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Too Late", which peaked at No. 10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100, Hall & Oates' "She's Gone", which charted at No. 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Remember What I Told You to Forget", which reached No. 4 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where noted

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Someone to Go Home To"		3:15
2.	"She's Gone"	Daryl Hall, John Oates	3:38
3.	"My Ship"		3:26
4.	"Leave It Up to the Lady"		3:30
5.	"To Love You"		4:02

Side two

No.	Title	Length
6.	"Too Late"	4:26
7.	"Remember What I Told You to Forget"	4:10
8.	"What You Don't Know"	3:54
9.	"Hard Core Poetry"	4:23

Personnel

Tavares

• Butch Tavares
• Chubby Tavares
• Pooch Tavares
• Ralph Tavares
• Tiny Tavares

with:

• Jeana Jackson - introductory narration on "To Love You"
• Michael Omartian - keyboards, arrangements, conductor
• Dennis Lambert – keyboards
• Wilton Felder, Scott Edwards – bass
• Ed Greene – drums
• Larry Carlton, Dean Parks, Ben Benay – guitar
• Gary Coleman, Brian Potter – percussion
• Sid Sharp – string concertmaster
• The Boogie Symphony – strings

Technical

• Joe Sidore - recording engineer
• Larkin Arnold - executive producer
• Roy Kohara - art direction
• Richard Rankin - cover photography

Charts

Album

Chart (1974)	Peaks [2]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	121
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	11

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US [2]	US R&B [2]
1974	"Too Late"	59	10
	"She's Gone"	50	1
1975	"Remember What I Told You to Forget"/"My Ship"	25	4

References

1. Henderson, Alex. Hard Core Poetry review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
2. "US Charts > Tavares". Billboard. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

External links

• Hard Core Poetry at Discogs (list of releases)