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In Search of the Rainbow Seekers

album by Mtume

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ6010765 ↗
Source-derived summary

In Search Of The Rainbow Seekers is a 1980 album by R&B group Mtume. This was their second album on the Epic Records label.

Track listing

All tracks composed by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas; except where noted.

"Give It on Up (If You Want To)" (Howard King, Ed "Tree" Moore, Tawatha Agee) - 6:40

"You Can't Wait for Love" - 4:52

"She's a Rainbow Dancer" - 4:56

"We're Gonna Make It This Time" - 4:56

"Dance Around My Navel (Doesn't Have to Make Sense, Just Cents)" (Basil Fearrington, Howard King, D. Spence) - 1:59

"So You Wanna Be a Star" (James Mtume, Reggie Lucas, Basil Fearrington) - 5:16

"Spirit of the Dance" (Hubert Eaves, Tawatha Agee) - 4:18

"Anticipatin'" - 4:22

"Everything Good to Me" - 4:08

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “In Search of the Rainbow Seekers” as album by Mtume. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. The account is most persuasive where Search, Rainbow and Seekers can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Mtume. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6010765. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “In Search of the Rainbow Seekers”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow In Search of the Rainbow Seekers primary sources, In Search of the Rainbow Seekers archive and Search research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “In Search of the Rainbow Seekers”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “In Search of the Rainbow Seekers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.