Bobby Caldwell - Cat In The Hat

Bobby Caldwell's long out-of-print second album

Featuring the eternal "Open Your Eyes"

Bobby Caldwell's second album, Cat In The Hat, from 1980, is one of his greatest moments and another masterwork of soulful sophistication.

Featuring the eternal "Open Your Eyes," brilliantly sampled by J Dilla for Common's "The Light," it's about as essential as records get.

Caldwell, the oft-sampled blue-eyed soul singer behind the late Seventies smash "What You Won't Do for Love," died at age 71 in March 2023. He was beloved by hip-hop beat makers and Black audiences.

"What You Won't Do for Love" was later covered by artists like Boyz II Men, Natalie Cole & Peabo Bryson, Michael Bolton, and Jessie Ware, and sampled by Tupac Shakur for the rapper's posthumous single "Do for Love."

Like its eponymous predecessor, Caldwell's Cat In The Hat has been out of print for far too long so to finally release the hugely-anticipated reissue is one of Be With Records' sincerely proudest moments.

 

Coming Down From Love

Wrong Or Right

To Know What You've Got

You Promised Me

It's Over

Open Your Eyes

Mother Of Creation

I Don't Want To Lose Your Love

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