"No Show" | ||||
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Single by Kool & the Gang | ||||
from the album The Hits Reloaded | ||||
Released | 2005 | |||
Genre | Funk | |||
Label | Edel | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ronald Nathan Bell, Robert Earl Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, Robert Mickens, J.T. Taylor, George Melvin Brown, Eumir Deodato | |||
Producer(s) | Eumir Deodato, Kool & the Gang | |||
Kool & the Gang singles chronology | ||||
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"No Show" is a song recorded by R&B/ Funk band Kool & the Gang for their 1981 studio album Something Special. [1] A cover of the tune, featuring Blackstreet, appeared on the band's 2004 studio album The Hits Reloaded via Edel Records. Released as a single, this said rendition reached No. 36 on the US Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart. [2] [3]
No Show was produced by Eumir Deodato and Kool & the Gang. The song was also composed by George Brown, J.T. Taylor and Ronald Bell. [1]
Craig Lytle of Allmusic called No Show "a sorrowful account of a man left standing in the rain, waiting for the love that never showed." [4] Marc D. Allan of the Boston Globe also described the tune as a "sweet, soft ballad." [5]