title: Working Nights (album)
text: # Working Nights (album)
  
  Working Nights is the debut album by the British jazz dance band Working Week, that was released by Virgin Records in 1985. The album reached #23 in the UK album charts in April 1985. Working Nights was reissued in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Cherry Red Records.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by Simon Booth and Larry Stabbins, except where noted.
  
  * "Inner City Blues" (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx Jr.) – 5:44
  * "Sweet Nothing" (Booth) – 3:39
  * "Who’s Fooling Who" – 5:04
  * "Thought I’d Never See You Again" – 6:26
  * "Autumn Boy" – 6:33
  * "Solo" – 4:40
  * "Venceremos" (Booth) – 4:41
  * "No Cure No Pay" (Stabbins) – 8:28
  
  ### 2012 Cherry Red Records reissue
  
  **Disc 1**
  
  * "Inner City Blues" (Gaye, Nyx Jr.) – 5:44
  * "Sweet Nothing" (Booth) – 3:39
  * "Who’s Fooling Who" – 5:04
  * "Thought I’d Never See You Again" – 6:26
  * "Autumn Boy" – 6:33
  * "Solo" – 4:40
  * "Venceremos" (Booth) – 4:41
  * "No Cure No Pay" (Stabbins) – 8:28
  * "Stella Marina" (Main Mix) (Stabbins, Jalal) – 11:04
  * "Storm of Light" – 6:40
  * "Bottom End" (Booth) – 5:45
  * "Venceremos (We Will Win)" (Jazz Dance Special 12" Edit) (Booth) – 4:08
  
  **Disc 2**
  
  * "Venceremos (We Will Win)" (Jazz Dance Special 12" Version) (Booth) – 10:17
  * "Afochê" (Stabbins) – 10:17
  * "Murphy’s Law" (live previously unissued) (Stabbins) – 7:37
  * "Pepe’s Samba" (live previously unissued) (Chico Freeman) – 8:39
  * "Inner City Blues" (Urbane Guerrilla Mix) (Gaye, Nyx Jr.) – 5:45
  * "Storm of Light" (Instrumental) – 3:24
  * "Who’s Fooling Who" (Dance Version) – 4:45
  * "Sweet Nothing" (Instrumental) (Booth) – 3:41
  * "Where’s the Bridge" (Longer Mix) (Booth, Stabbins, Juliet Roberts) – 5:09
  * "Venceremos" (We Will Win) (7" Bossa Version) (Booth) – 4:42
  * "Stella Marina" (Full Rap)" (Stabbins, Jalal) – 8:35
  
  ## Personnel
  
  ### Working Week
  
  * Juliet Roberts – vocals
  * Simon Booth – guitars
  * Larry Stabbins – tenor and soprano saxophone and flute
  
  with:
  
  * Kim Burton – piano
  * Mike Carr – organ (disc 1, track 10; disc 2, track 6)
  * Roy Dodds – drums (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9; disc 2, track 11)
  * Nic France – drums (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  * Mark Taylor – drums (disc 1, tracks 1, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Louis Moholo – drums (disc 1, track 9; disc 2, track 11)
  * Ernest Mothle – bass (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9; disc 2, track 11)
  * Chucho Merchán – bass (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Dawson Miller and Bosco De Oliveira – percussion (disc 1, tracks 2, 5-9, 12; disc 2, tracks 10, 11)
  * Martin Ditcham – percussion (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  * Robin Millar – additional guitar (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 5)
  * Leroy Osbourne – backing vocals (disc 1, track 2)
  * Tracey Thorn – guest vocals (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Robert Wyatt – guest vocals (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Julie Tippetts – guest vocals (disc 1, track 9, 10; disc 2, track 11)
  * Jalal – guest vocals (disc 1, track 9; disc 2, track 11)
  * Claudia Figueroa – guest vocals (disc 1, track 7, 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Guy Barker – trumpet and flugelhorn (disc 1, tracks 1, 3, 4)
  * Stuart Brooke – trumpet (disc 1, track 1)
  * Harry Beckett – trumpet (disc 1, tracks 2, 5, 11; disc 2, tracks 6, 8)
  * Paul Spong – trumpet (disc 1, track 6)
  * Annie Whitehead – trombone (disc 1, tracks 2, 6, 8, 9)
  * Malcolm Griffiths – trombone (disc 1, track 4)
  * Paul Nieman – trombone (disc 1, track 1)
  * Chris Biscoe – alto saxophone (disc 1, track 3)
  * Ray Warleigh – alto and baritone saxophone (disc 1, tracks 1, 3)
  * Dave Bitelli – clarinet and baritone saxophone (disc 1, track 12; disc 2, tracks 1, 10)
  * Nick Ingman – string arrangements
  
  ## Charts
  
  ### Album charts
  
  | Year | Chart | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1985 | UK album charts | #23 |
  