| Big Fun | ||||
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| Released | August 30, 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 at Studio Masters, Los Angeles, CA, Jack Clement Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
| Genre | Pop, disco, R&B | |||
| Length | 37:07 | |||
| Label | SOLAR | |||
| Producer | Leon Sylvers III | |||
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Big Fun is the third album by the American musical group Shalamar, released in 1979 through SOLAR Records.[1] Big Fun was produced by Leon Sylvers III and is the first album to feature what is considered the 'classic' Shalamar line-up (Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley), with Hewett having replaced Gerald Brown. The album features the group's most successful hit on the Hot 100 pop chart, "The Second Time Around".
Big Fun has been certified Gold in the United States for sales of over 500,000. It peaked at #4 on the R&B chart and #23 on the Billboard chart (Shalamar's highest-placing album on this chart). In the UK it reached #45.
In 2002, Big Fun was re-released by Sanctuary Records in the United Kingdom in a two-for-one CD format with Shalamar's following album Three for Love.
The song "I Owe You One" was sampled in Raw Man's "Beautiful", and Le Knight Club's "Mosquito".