Special Occasion

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  • Bobby Valentino
  • Special Occasion
  • The Rebirth
  • Fly on the Wall
  • Dusk Till Dawn
  • Electrik

Release Date

May 8, 2007

Duration

01:05:38

Genre

R&B

Styles

Recording Location

  • 2nd Floor Studios, Longport, NJ
  • Audio Dallas, Dallas, TX
  • Brandon's Way Recording, Los Angeles, CA
  • Doppler Studios, Atlanta, GA
  • Ghettopop Music Studios, Dallas, TX
  • Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL
  • Quad Recording Studios, New York, NY
  • Silent Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA
  • Studio 609 Recordings, Philadelphia, PA
  • Studio At The Palms, Las Vegas, NV
  • The Black Room, Atlanta, GA
  • The Boom Boom Room, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Ludaplex, Atlanta, GA
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Bobby V

Special Occasion

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After releasing his debut solo album in the spring of 2005, Bobby V. 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 V. 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."

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Bobby V
0:38 Spotify
2
E. Lewis / K. Logan / Timothy Mosley / Balewa Muhammad / C. Nelson / P. Smith
Bobby V
feat: Timbaland
4:43
3
Bobby V
4:07 Spotify
4
Bobby V
1:59 Spotify
5
Bobby V
feat: Ludacris
3:46 Spotify
6
Bobby V
3:23 Spotify
7
Bobby V
3:48 Spotify
8
Bobby V
4:22 Spotify
9
Bobby V
5:14 Spotify
10
Bobby V
feat: Fabolous / Fabulous
4:45 Spotify
11
Bobby V
4:33 Spotify
12
Bobby V
4:57 Spotify
13
Bobby V
4:43 Spotify
14
Bobby V
5:28 Spotify
15
Bobby V
7:53 Spotify
16
Bobby V
1:19 Spotify
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