That's a Plenty (album)

That's a Plenty
Studio album by The Pointer Sisters
Released	February 13, 1974
Recorded	Wally Heider Studios (San Francisco) Quadraphonic Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) United Western Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	R&B soul funk jazz big band country
Length	48:25
Label	Blue Thumb
Producer	David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
The Pointer Sisters chronology
The Pointer Sisters (1973) That's a Plenty (1974) Live at the Opera House (1974)
Singles from That's a Plenty
"Fairytale" Released: June 1974

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

That's a Plenty is the second studio album by the American female vocal group The Pointer Sisters.^[4] It was released in 1974 on Blue Thumb Records.^[5]

The album peaked at No. 82 on the Billboard 200.^[6]

Mixing the Pointers' brand of soul with rollicking blues numbers and jazz covers, the album also included the country-flavored "Fairytale", their second Top 40 hit. The song crossed over to the country charts, enabling the group to become the first African-American vocal group to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.^[7] The group won the Grammy Award for "Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group".^[8]

The album was the second by the group to be certified gold. The album was remastered and issued on CD in 2006 by Hip-O Select.

• Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Bonnie Pointer, June Pointer – vocals

Musicians

• Tom Salisbury – keyboards, Silverton accordion (1), brass and string arrangements
• Herbie Hancock – acoustic piano (2, 6); electric piano, Hohner clavinet and ARP synthesizer (9)
• David Briggs – acoustic piano (7)
• David Grisman – mandolin (1)
• Jesse Ed Davis – electric guitar (3)
• Jack Viertell – electric guitar (3)
• Bonnie Raitt – slide guitar (3)
• John Shine – guitar (4)
• Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar (7)
• Weldon Myrick – pedal steel guitar (7)
• John Neumann – bass (1, 5, 8)
• Ron McClure – bass (2, 4, 6)
• Paul Jackson – bass (3, 9)
• Norbert Putnam – bass (7)
• Gaylord Birch – drums (1−6, 8, 9)
• Ken Buttrey – drums (7)
• Bill Summers – African talking drum, shekere and congas (9)
• Britt Woodman – trombone solo (4)
• Gordon Messick – trombone (5)
• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet solo (4)
• James Goodwin – trumpet (5)
• Jim Rothermel – clarinet (5)
• Floyd Cooley – tuba (5)
• Buddy Spicher – fiddle (7)

• David Rubinson & Friends, Inc. – producer
• Tom Salisbury, Jeffrey Cohen, Bruce Good – associate producers
• Jeremy Zatkin, Fred Catero, David Rubinson – recording engineers
• George Horn, Phil Brown – mastering engineers
• David Rubinson – arrangements on "Grinning in Your Face" and "Black Coffee"
• Norman Landsberg, Jeffrey Cohen, Bruce Good – vocal arrangement on "Salt Peanuts"
• Randy Tuten – cover art
• Herb Greene – art direction, photography

• That's a Plenty at Discogs (list of releases)