Thriller (Cold Blood album)

Thriller
Studio album by Cold Blood
Released	1973
Recorded	1973; Wally Heider Studios, Funky Features, San Francisco
Genre	Funk
Label	Reprise
Producer	David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
Cold Blood chronology
First Taste of Sin (1972) Thriller (1973) Lydia (1974)

Thriller is a 1973 album by San Francisco funk group Cold Blood.^[1][2] Lydia Pense and the rest of Cold Blood were backed by The Pointer Sisters.

The album caused controversy because of its violent cover art.^[3] The cover was cited in 1978 in a congressional committee on domestic violence.^[4] The inside of the album cover, in the fold out, is the same model stabbing a man in the back.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Baby I Love You" (Jerry Ragovoy)
2. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder)
3. "Feel So Bad" (James Johnson, Leslie Temple)
4. "Sleeping" (Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson)
5. "Live Your Dream" (Max Haskett)
6. "I'll Be Long Gone" (Boz Scaggs)
7. "Kissing My Love" (Bill Withers)

References

1. Billboard - 1973 5 5 p62 "Pop album picks— titles deemed headed for a post among the first 100 places on the Top LP chart. .. COLD BLOOD, "
2. http://theband.hiof.no/albums/thriller_cold_blood.html
3. Suzanne Lacy Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 2010 p76 "Record Companies Drag Their Feet, record album covers revealed the iconography of violence as entertainment: Thriller, In Cold Blood, Warner Bros. record album cover"
4. Emilio Viano Spouse abuse 1978-p514 "Cover for Cold Blood's album “Thriller.” nd. Romance novel parody. Amaulted, robbed, molested, unconscious woman is labeled a "thriller." She has fallen in a seductive position, with her skirt lifted. Her make-up is “a little too dark,” implying ..."
5. Research Into Violent Behavior: Overview and Sexual Assaults ... United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning, Analysis, and Cooperation - 1978 "Yet it's selling an album. This one — there's a whole ... The inside of the album cover, after you buy it, is a woman stabbing a man in the back. Again, it's the same model, ... This one is called "Cold Blood" by Thriller. The woman has obviously ..."