1977 US pressing in beautiful condition.

High Inergy’s first album Turnin’ On was produced by Kent Washburn, Al Willis & Dee Ervin, and Jimmy Holiday. Washburn was a former band member himself with the 1960s outfit the Shadow Lake 8. His extensive industry credits included another, almost simultaneous, Motown connection as a producer during soul man Major Lance’s brief time on its Soul label. He would oversee the single from the High Inergy album that became their signature, and by far their biggest hit. That track was the spicy “You Can’t Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On),” written by long-standing hitmakers Pam Sawyer and Marilyn McLeod. The pair’s extensive resumé as collaborators included the disco-era sensation that had given new lifeblood to Diana Ross in 1976, “Love Hangover.”

“You Can’t Turn Me Off” captured the imagination of US radio programmers and listeners alike, entering Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles at No.82 for the week of September 3, 1977. It went on to spend no fewer than four weeks at No.2 on that survey.