African Queens

African Queens is the fourth studio album recorded by American female vocal trio the Ritchie Family, released in 1977 on the Marlin label.

History
The album features the track, "Quiet Village", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart along with songs "African Queens" and "Summer Dance". "Quiet Village" also peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Critical reception
The Bay State Banner wrote that "the music moves swiftly via massive string swoops and spurts of high hat drumming, jetting far away from present reality towards exotic distances only the world of fantasy can reckon."

Personnel

 * Gwendolyn Oliver, Cassandra Ann Wooten and Cheryl Mason Jacks - Vocalists
 * Russell Dabney – drums
 * Alfonso Carey – Fender bass
 * Jimmy Lee – lead guitar
 * Rodger Lee – rhythm guitar
 * Nathaniel "Crocket" Wilke – Fender Rhodes electric piano, clavinet
 * Babatunde Olatunji – Ngoma drums, Shekere, bongos
 * Ralph MacDonald – tambourines, triangle, bell tree, cowbell
 * Mario Grillo – timbales
 * Anthony Robinson – congas
 * J.M. Diatta – ngoma drums
 * Charles Payne – Djembe

Production

 * Jacques Morali – producer, rhythm, percussion and vocal arrangements
 * Henri Belolo – executive producer
 * Phil Hurtt – vocal arrangements
 * Horace Ott – strings and horns arrangements
 * Gerald Block – engineer
 * Carla Bandini, Jeff Stewart – assistant engineers
 * John Galluzzi – photographer

Charts

 * Singles