Sparks! / Akilah!

Melvin Sparks

Beat Goes Public

A 2-on-1 CD release of LPs from 1970 and 1973.

Tracks

• Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Stewart)
• I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Hart / Rodgers)
• Charlie Brown (Leiber / Stoller)
• The Stinker (Spencer)
• Spill the Wine (Allen / Brown / Dickerson / Jordan / Miller / Miller / Oskar / Scott)
• Love the Life You Live (Redd)
• On the Up (Sparks)
• All Wrapped Up (Sparks)
• Akilah (Sparks)
• Blues for J.B. (Sparks)
• The Image of Love (Spencer)

Tracks 1 to 5;

• Melvin Sparks - guitar
• John Manning - tenor saxophone
• Houston Person - tenor saxophone
• Virgil Jones - trumpet
• Leon Spencer - organ
• Idris Muhammad - drums

• Melvin Sparks - guitar
• George Coleman - saxophone
• Sonny Fortune - saxophone
• Dave Hubbard - saxophone
• Hubert Laws - flute
• Virgil Jones - trumpet
• Ernie Royal - trumpet
• Leon Spencer - organ
• Idris Muhammad - drums
• Buddy Caldwell - congas

The tracks on this 2-on-1 CD release were originally released on;

• Sparks!, Melvin Sparks, 1970
• Akilah!, Melvin Sparks, 1973