title: I Sing the Body Electric (album)
text: I Sing the Body Electric is the second studio album released by the American jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1972.
  
  Recording 
  The album includes two new members of the band: percussionist Dom Um Romão and drummer Eric Gravatt.  The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972.  These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album Live in Tokyo.
  
  Title 
  
  The album takes its name from an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman and a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury.
  
  Critical reception 
  Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Significantly less Milesian than their debut, which is impressive but not necessarily good—the difference is that this is neater, more antiseptic, its bottom less dirty and its top less sexy. I find myself interested but never engaged, and I'm sure one piece is a flop—'Crystal', described by the annotator as 'about' time. Sing the body electric and I'm with you. Sing the body short-circuited and you'd better turn me on."
  
  Track listing
  
  Personnel 
  
  Weather Report
  
   Josef Zawinul - electric & acoustic pianos, synthesizers (ARP 2600)
   Wayne Shorter - saxophones
   Miroslav Vitouš - bass
   Eric Gravatt - drums
   Dom Um Romão - percussions
  Special Guests
  
  On "Unknown Soldier":
   Andrew White - english horn
   Hubert Laws, Jr. - flute
   Wilmer Wise - D & piccolo trumpets
   Yolande Bavan - vocals
   Joshie Armstrong - vocals
   Chapman Roberts - vocals
   Roger Powell - ARP programming
  
  On "The Moors":
   Ralph Towner - 12-string guitar
  
  Technical
   Wayne Tarnowski, Susumu Satoh - engineers
   Robert Devere - executive producer
   Don Meehan - mixing
   Ed Lee - cover design
   Fred Swanson, Jack Trompetter - cover artwork
  
  References
  
  External links 
  
  Weather Report Annotated Discography: I Sing the Body Electric
  
  1972 albums
  Columbia Records albums
  Weather Report albums