The Harold Wheeler Consort

Pop music history is littered with albums whose provocative covers Promised something steamy and sensual inside but delivered a musical cold shower instead.

This is not one of those albums. Fresh from arranging/conducting such Broadway shows as The Wiz and also forging a successful career penning jingles for such clients as McDonald's, Pan Am Airlines, Boone's Farm Wines, Kool Aid, and Coca Cola, composer/ keyboardist Wheeler released this 1975 cult classic, a soulful, slinky masterpiece of bedroom jazz-funk. It's Wheeler's only album, but it may have been singly responsible for an increase in the mid-'70s birth rate… light some candles and break out the lotion for this one.