This album has been cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and is pressed locally on 180-gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing’s plant in Oxnard, California, as part of the Rhino Reserve line.

Willie Hale a.k.a. Little Beaver (so dubbed as a child because of his prominent front teeth) was one of the extraordinarily talented musicians Henry Stone assembled at his Hialeah, FL-based T.K. Records label and its assorted imprints. Among the artists who recorded for Stone were K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McCrae, Betty Wright, and Benny Latimoreand backing them on a lot of those records was Hale, laying down mellow n funky, jazz-influenced licks on his hollow-body Gibson. Hales talent was so distinctive that when Stone finally let Hale step out of the studio shadows to record his own album on the Cat imprint, the effects were immediate and long-lasting. Featuring contributions from Thomas, Wright, Latimore, and Jaco Pastorius (under the name Nelson Jocko Padron), 1974s Party Down scored a #2 hit with its title track and has been repeatedly sampled by latter-day rap artists ranging from People Under the Stairs to Jay Z. himself (the Party Life track on his American Gangster album).

Tracklist:

A1 Party Down
A2 Party Down (Part Two)
A3 Money Vibrations
A4 Get Into The Party Life
B1 I Can Dig It Baby
B2 Let The Good Times Roll
B3 Let’s Stick Together