Two (GQ album)
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Two is the second album by American
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 soul
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/disco group GQ, released in 1980 on the Arista
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 label. It peaked at #9 on the R&B chart and #46 on the pop listing. Unlike its predecessor Disco Nights
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, no single from this album crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100
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, but "Sitting in the Park" and "Standing Ovation" reached #9 and #12 respectively on the R&B chart. The former was, like "I Do Love You" from Disco Nights, a cover of a 1965 Billy Stewart
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 recording.

Track listing

(All except track 8 written by Emanuel LeBlanc, Herb Lane, Keith Crier and Paul Service)
  1. "Standing Ovation" 5:32
  2. "Is It Cool" 4:05
  3. "Someday (In Your Life)" 4:56
  4. "Lies" 5:19
  5. "GQ Down" 3:56
  6. "Don't Stop This Feeling" 4:59
  7. "Reason for the Season" 3:41
  8. "Sitting in the Park" (Billy Stewart
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    )
    3:18
  9. "It's Like That" 4:17

Singles

  • "Sitting in the Park" (US R&B
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    #9)
  • "Standing Ovation" (US R&B #12)
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