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Bobby Valentino
Special Occasion
Bobby Valentino:  Special Occasion

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Released: 2007
Label: Def Jam
Selection #: 170384
Atlanta’s R&B crooner serenades the ladies on soph set. Anonymous (w/Timbaland), Turn The Page, Rearview (Ridin’) (w/Ludacris), Soon As I Get Home, etc.
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1 Intro
2 Anonymous
3 Checkin' for Me
4 Special Occasion (Interlude)
5 Rearview (Ridin')
6 If I Had My Way
7 How 'Bout It
8 Turn the Page
9 Home Is Where You Belong
10 Let Him Go
11 Only Human
12 Can't Wait 'Til Later
13 I Was Wrong
14 Soon as I Get Home
15 Over & Over
16 Right There (Thank You)
  
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After releasing his debut solo album in the spring of 2005 and then a stint as part of the collaboration Disturbing the Peace Presents Bobby Valentino, Valentino released another solo album, "Special Occasion", in the middle of 2007, a slice of modern urban R&B with enough confidence to credit it simply to his first name, Bobby (assuming that everybody would know who it was). The opening track, "Anonymous," featured the talents of Timberland, who appeared to pop up on just about every R&B album from the mid-2000s, but this set the scene for the whole album, which was a series of 16 songs with Bobby making love to the microphone over a sensual beat and even more sexual strings. Especially indicative of this was the title track, which was a live get together with Valentino and one of his female fans. It was just as well the song was only two minutes long for the erotica (and hero worship) was building nicely into a crescendo. Coming from very different worlds, one could be fairly sure that Bobby Valentino had not listened or deliberately copied the vocal style of Craig David, but in some of the vocals, there was more than a passing similarity, although he strayed into Stevie Wonder territory on the track "I Was Wrong." ~ Sharon Mawer, All Music Guide

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