The Legendary Zing Album

1975 studio album by The Trammps

Studio album by

The Trammps

Released

June 1975

Studio

Sigma Sound Studios (Philadelphia)

Genre

Soul
disco

Length

34:08

Label

Buddah

Producer

Roy Thomas Baker
Ronnie Baker
Norman Harris
Earl Young

The Trammps chronology

Trammps
(1975)

The Legendary Zing Album
(1975)

Where the Happy People Go
(1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[2]

The Legendary Zing Album is the second studio album by American soul-disco group, The Trammps, released in 1975 through Buddah Records.

Commercial performance

The album consists of tracks recorded in the early 1970s with the Philadelphia Soul sound. The album features the singles "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", which peaked at No. 17 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 64 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Pray All You Sinners", which peaked at #34 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and "Hold Back the Night", which peaked at No. 10 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Legacy

The track "Rubber Band" was 30 years later sampled and used by rap artist the Game for his 2005 hit "Hate It Or Love It", and again the same year by Mary J. Blige on her song "MJB Da MVP". The song also appears in Grand Theft Auto V in the in-game radio station The Lowdown 91.1.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Penguin at the Big Apple" / "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" (Medley)	Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young / James F. Hanley	4:52
2.	"Pray All You Sinners"	Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker	5:24
3.	"Sixty Minute Man"	Billy Ward, Rose Marks	4:54
4.	"Scruboard"	Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young	3:12

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Tom's Song"	Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young	3:14
6.	"Rubber Band"	Ronnie Baker, Allan Felder, Norman Harris	5:14
7.	"Hold Back the Night"	Ronnie Baker, Norman Harris, Allan Felder, Earl Young	3:54
8.	"Penguin at the Big Apple"	Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young	3:24

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Peaks
Year	Single	US ^[3]	US R&B ^[3]
1972	"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart"	64	17
1972	"Sixty Minute Man"	108	—
1973	"Pray All You Sinners"	—	34
1975	"Hold Back the Night"	35	10

References

^ Hamilton, Andrew. "The Legendary Zing Album review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ ^a ^b "US Charts > The Trammps". Billboard. Retrieved 25 May 2017.