Keeping Time

Keeping Time is the second studio album by American actor, singer and songwriter Paul Jabara.[1]

This article is about the album by Paul Jabara. For for song by Angie McMahon, see Keeping Time (song).
Keeping Time
Studio album by
Paul Jabara
ReleasedMay 1978
GenreDisco
LabelCasablanca NBLP 7102
ProducerBob Esty
Paul Jabara chronology
Shut Out
(1977)		 Keeping Time
(1978)		 The Third Album
(1979)

The album, which was released on Casablanca Records in 1978, includes Jabara's song "Trapped in a Stairway" from the movie Thank God It's Friday, his own version of the Grammy Award-winning "Last Dance" (originally recorded by Donna Summer) as well as the duets "Something's Missing" (with Summer) and "Take Good Care of My Baby / What's a Girl to Do" (with Pattie Brooks). The lead single from the album was "Dancin' (Lift Your Spirits Higher)". Betty Lederer from Billboard, elected "Pleasure Island" as the best cut of the album,[2] the magazine also choose the album as the best disco album of the week, giving it a favorable review.[3] The album peaked at number 12 in the National Disco Action Top 40.[4]

Keeping Time was released on CD by Gold Legion in 2011.

Track listing
Side one
  1. "Didn't the Time Go Fast" - 4:17
  2. "Saturday Matinee" - 3:24
  3. "Trapped in a Stairway" (from the Original Soundtrack Album Thank God It's Friday) - 3:13
  4. "Take Good Care of My Baby / What's a Girl to Do" (duet with Pattie Brooks) - 4:47
  5. "Dancin' (Lift Your Spirits Higher)" - 3:39
Side two
  1. "Last Dance" - 3:10
  2. "Pleasure Island" - 10:40
  3. "Something's Missing" (duet with Donna Summer) - 3:02

Personnel

References
  1. "Hold on... For Dear Life!". Newyorkmetro.com. New York Media, LLC: 32–. 9 October 1978. ISSN 0028-7369.
  2. Lederer, Barry (12 August 1978). "Billboard - Disco Mix". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.: 78–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  3. "Billboard's Top Album Peaks". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.: 69– 19 August 1978. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. "Billboard - National Disco Action Top 40". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.: 41– 9 September 1978. ISSN 0006-2510.
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