Alligator Woman is the eighth album by the funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

/R&B band Cameo

Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...

, released in 1982. It contains the funk classic, "Flirt".
The cover artwork model is the Prince protege Denise Matthews, aka Vanity

Vanity (performer)

Denise Katrina Matthews , better known as Vanity, but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model from the 1980s until the early mid-90s...

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Track listing

1. "Be Yourself" – 4:06 — c. L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/C.Singleton
2. "Soul Army" – 4:13 — c. L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins
3. "Flirt" – 4:15 — c. L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins
4. "Enjoy Your Life" – 4:30 — c. L.Blackmon
5. "Alligator Woman" – 3:42 — c. L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/C.Singleton
6. "Secrets of Time" – 2:52 — c. L.Blackmon/T.Jenkins/C.Singleton
7. "I Owe It All to You" – 2:52 — c. L.Blackmon
8. "For You" – 3:39 — c. C.Singleton

Personnel

• Backing Vocals - Charlie Singleton, Gregory Johnson, Larry Blackmon
  Larry Blackmon
  Larry Ernest Blackmon is the lead singer and frontman for the funk and R&B band, Cameo. He came to Cameo from the band, Black Ivory....
  
  , Nathan Leftenant, Tomi Jenkins
• Bass
  Bassist
  A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
  
   - Michael Burnett
• Drums
  Drummer
  A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
  
  , Percussion - Larry Blackmon
• Guitar
  Guitarist
  A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
  
   - Charlie Singleton
• Keyboards
  Keyboardist
  A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
  
   - Charlie Singleton, Gregory Johnson, Kevin Kendricks, Randy Stern
• Lead Vocals - Charlie Singleton, Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins
• Mixed
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
   By - Larry Blackmon, Tom Race
• Producer - Larry Blackmon
• Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   - Nathan Leftenant

Album Cover

80's and early 90's singer/actress/model Vanity

Vanity (performer)

Denise Katrina Matthews , better known as Vanity, but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model from the 1980s until the early mid-90s...

 appears on the cover of Alligator Woman, as well as on the cover of the band's 1984 album, She's Strange

She's Strange

She's Strange is the tenth album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1984.This album is dedicated to the late Polygram A&R-representative , Bill Haywood.As Cameo mentions in the liner-notes of the album , "The album which he always wanted"...

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