Track Listing
7 tracks · 43 min- 1I'm Gonna Give You Every Inch Of My Love, Baby05:36
- 2Come Get A Piece Of My Love, Baby06:20
- 3There's A Whole Lot Of Pressure In This Love Machine06:24
- 4This Love (Is Not For Sale)05:58
- 5Let The Night Take Its Time06:38
- 6Darlin', Open Up The Garden Gate, Put The Good China Away, and Let Me Inspect The Honey Where The Moonlight Makes the Magnolias Misbehave05:38
- 7By The Time She Gave Me The Green Light, I Had Already Driven the Love Cadillac Through the Tollbooth Of Desire06:35
Released in 1976, A Gentleman’s Guide to Misbehaving introduced Reggie Nightingale as a velvet-voiced soul-funk provocateur with impeccable manners and questionable intentions. Built on deep-pocket bass, tight live drums, Hammond organ, brass, wah-wah guitar, and warm analog production, the record turns seduction into theater, pairing outrageous innuendo with a performer’s instinct for timing, groove, and escalation.
Beneath the jokes and bedroom swagger, the album is held together by Nightingale’s complete commitment to the performance. Every promise is delivered like gospel, every double meaning lands with a wink, and every groove feels designed to keep the room moving long after good judgment has left. A Gentleman’s Guide to Misbehaving established the essential Reggie Nightingale sound: smoky, playful, theatrical soul-funk with just enough danger to make bad decisions sound respectable.