The Trammps III

The Trammps III
Studio album by The Trammps
Released	November 10, 1977
Studio	Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre	Disco, soul
Length	43:05
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Norman Harris, Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, Ron Baker
The Trammps chronology
Disco Inferno (1976) The Trammps III (1977) The Whole World's Dancing (1979)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide	[3]

The Trammps III is the fifth studio album by the American soul-disco group the Trammps, released in 1977 through Atlantic Records.^[2]

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 27 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 85 on the Billboard 200. The album includes the singles "The Night the Lights Went Out", which peaked at No. 80 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and "Seasons for Girls", which charted at No. 50 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Night the Lights Went Out"	Allan Felder, Norman Harris, Ron Tyson	7:06
2.	"Love Per Hour"	Leroy Green, Ron Kersey	5:11
3.	"People of the World, Rise"	Bruce Gray, T.G. Conway, Norman Harris	9:24

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Living the Life"	Ron Baker, Ron Tyson	3:50
5.	"Seasons for Girls"	Jerry Akins, Johnny Bellmon, Reginald Turner	7:56
6.	"Life Ain't Been Easy"	Ron Baker, Ron Tyson	3:12
7.	"I'm So Glad You Came Along"	Ron Baker, Ron Tyson	2:55
8.	"It Don't Take Much"	Ron Baker, Ron Tyson	3:18

Personnel

The Trammps

• Earl Young
• Harold Wade
• Stanley Wade
• Robert Upchurch
• Jimmy Ellis

Additional Personnel

• Norman Harris, Bobby Eli, T.J. Tindall – guitars
• Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, Bruce Gray, Carlton Kent – keyboards
• Ron Baker, Sugar Bear Foreman – bass
• Earl Young – drums
• T.G. Conway – synthesizer
• Don Renaldo and His Strings and Horns (except on "Love Per Hour" horns by Fred Wesley and The Horny Horns)

Charts

Album

Chart (1977)	Peaks [4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	85
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	27

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
		US [4]	US R&B [4]	US Dan [4]
1977	"The Night the Lights Went Out"	104	80	6
1978	"Seasons for Girls"	—	50	—

References

1. Elias, Jason. "The Trammps III review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 242.
3. The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 516.
4. "US Charts > The Trammps". Billboard. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

External links

• The Trammps III at Discogs (list of releases)