Santana - Revelations (1976) 45RPM RiP

SiNGLE by ''Santana'' taken from the forthcoming album ''Festival''.


B-side..............................................."Reach Up"
Released..........................................1976
Format..............................................45RPM
Genre...............................................Psichedelic Rock
Total Time........................................8'.37''ca.
Label................................................CBS
Producer..........................................David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
Filetype............................................Wav @ 48kHz



TRACKLiST:

Side A - Santana - Revelations
Side B - Santana - Reach Up



REVELATiONS:

"Revelations" is an instrumental song by Carlos Santana that was originally released on the album ''Festival''. The song was written by Coster and Santana.




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WAR - Low Rider (1976) 45RPM RiP

"Low Rider" is a song written by the band War and appearing on their 1975 album ''Why Can't We Be Friends?''. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number seven on the Pop Singles chart.
Songs that sample "Low Rider"


B-side............................................."So"
Released........................................1976
Format............................................45RPM
Genre.............................................Latin
Total Time......................................8'.17''ca.
Producer........................................Jerry Goldstein in association with Lonnie Jordan & Howard Scott for Far Out Productions

Label..............................................Island Records
Filetype..........................................Wav @ 48kHz


TRACKLiST:

Side A - WAR - Low Rider
Side B - WAR - So


LOW RiDER:

According to the Allmusic review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the lowrider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle."



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Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady (1976) 45RPM RiP

SiNGLE by Johnnie Taylor "Disco Lady" was the first certified platinum single (two million copies sold)
Songs that sample "Disco Lady"


B-side............................................."You're The Best In The World"
Released........................................1976
Format............................................45RPM
Genre.............................................Disco
Total Time......................................7'.50''ca.
Producer........................................Don Davis for Groovesville Prod.Inc.

Label..............................................Columbia CBS Inc.
Filetype..........................................Wav @ 48kHz


TRACKLiST:

Side A - Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
Side B - Johnnie Taylor - You're The Best In The World


JOHNNiE TAYLOR:


Johnnie Taylor (May 5, 1934, 1937 or 1938? – May 31, 2000) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel, blues and soul to pop, doo-wop and disco.


EARLY YEARS:


Johnnie Harrison Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas. As an adult, he had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Chance Records label in the 1950s, as part of the gospel group Highway QCs, which had been founded by a young Sam Cooke. His singing was strikingly close to that of Sam Cooke, and he was hired to take Cooke's place in Cooke's gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, in 1957.

A few years later, after Cooke had established his independent SAR Records, Taylor signed on and recorded "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" in 1962. However, SAR Records quickly became defunct after Cooke's death in 1964.

In 1966, Taylor moved to Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was dubbed "The Philosopher of Soul". Whilst there he recorded with the label's house band, Booker T. & the MGs. His hits included "I Had a Dream", "I've Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) and most notably "Who's Making Love", which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1968. "Who's Making Love" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

During his tenure at Stax, he became an R&B star, with over a dozen chart successes, such as "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone", which reached No. 23 on the Hot 100 chart, "Cheaper to Keep Her" (Mack Rice) and record producer Don Davis's penned "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)", which reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 chart. "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" also sold in excess of one million units, and was awarded gold disc status by the R.I.A.A. in October 1973. Taylor, along with Isaac Hayes and The Staple Singers was one of the label's flagship artists. He appeared in the documentary film, Wattstax, which was released in 1973.


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Santana - Europa (1976) 45RPM RiP

"Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" is an instrumental taken from the forthcoming Santana's album ''Amigos''.

Songs that sample "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)"


B-side............................................."Take Me With You"
Released........................................1976
Format............................................45RPM
Genre.............................................Psichedelic Rock
Total Time......................................9 ' 02''ca.
Producer........................................David Rubinson
Label..............................................CBS
Filetype..........................................Wav @ 48kHz


TRACKLiST:

Side A - Santana - Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
Side B - Santana - Take Me With You



GENESiS:

Upon seeing his friend was suffering a bad experience whilst high on mescaline, Santana composed a song titled "The Mushroom Lady's Coming to Town". This precursor contained the first lick to the song "Europa". It was put away and not touched for some time.

When Santana was touring with Earth, Wind & Fire in Manchester, England, he played this song again, this time with Tom Coster who helped him with some of the chords and thus Europa was born. It was renamed to "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)".


COVERS:

A famous rendition was by saxophonist Gato Barbieri off his 1976 from album Caliente!.
In 2006, saxophonist Jimmy Sommers covered the song for his Standards album "Time Stands Still."
Contemporary jazz guitarist Nils released a rendition from his 2009 album Up Close & Personal.



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Gwen McCrae - Cradle Of Love (1976) 45RPM RiP

SiNGLE by Gwen McCrae
PROMO B/W EASY ROCK (PT452)


B-side........................"Easy Rock"
Released....................1976
Format.......................45RPM
Genre.........................Soul
Total Time..................6' 36''ca.
Writer(s).....................Clarence Reid
Producer(s)................Steve Alaimo & Clarence Reid
Label.........................PRESIDENT
Filetype......................Wav @ 48kHz


TRACKLiST:

Side A - Gwen McCrae - Cradle Of Love
Side B - Gwen McCrae - Easy Rock


Ex-wife of George McCrae, Gwen McCrae was born as Gwen Mosley in Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A., in late 1943.

She sang, as many Black Children did at the time, in the Church. Gwen attended a Pentecostal Church.

Gwen first met George in Pensacola and the pair married in 1964, after a relationship that was only a week old!

George was in the Navy at the time and, after leaving the services, he reformed his old group The Jiving Jets, and offered Gwen a role within the group.

They duo soon left the group to perform as a husband and wife team, with Gwen later relocating to West Palm Beach, Florida, up until 1975.

Today she lives in Pensacola.

Along with George, Gwen was part of the Miami based T.K. Records operation during the Seventies.

The duo were, originally discovered by the singer Betty Wright back in 1967.

Betty aided the duo, by helping them get a deal with the Henry Stone owned Alston imprint.

In 1969, they released their debut single 'Three Hearts In A Tangle'.

This was followed up by 'Like Yesterday Our Love Is Gone'.

The duo had now collaborated with Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, a team that was later to blossom under the T.K. umbrella.

A third single entitled 'No One Left To Come Home' was released and the pair began session work alongside Betty Wright.

Gwen first found solo success in 1970, remake of the old Bobby Bland gospel-blues song, 'Lead Me On' (R & B number 32).

The record was recorded for TK Records.

Contrary to reports, George never retired or managed Gwen during this period.

Alston leased her contract to Columbia where she recorded several more singles over the next few years.

Columbia then declined to renew Gwen's contract in 1973, and she was signed to a different Henry Stone label, the T.K. subsidiary, Cat.

At that imprint, she followed with a remake of the Ed Townsend oldie, 'For Your Love' (R & B number 17).

Gwen had a minor 1974 hit with the song 'It's Worth the Hurt', however, the song's success was overshadowed by George's recording, namely, the enormous pop hit 'Rock Your Baby'.


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WAR - Summer (1976) 45RPM RiP

SiNGLE by WAR
from the forthcoming album "War's Greatest Hits"


B-side.........................."All Day Music" (reissue from the Island album "All Day Music")
Released......................Aug, 1976
Format.........................45RPM
Genre...........................Soul
Total Time....................8' 09''ca.
Writer(s).......................Allen, Brown, Dickerson, Goldstein, Jordan, Miller, Oskar, Scott
Producer(s)..................Jerry Goldstein, Lonnie Jordan, Howard Scott
Label...........................Island
Filetype.......................Wav @ 48kHz


TRACKLiST:

Side A - WAR - Summer
Side B - WAR - All Day Music


PRiNCiPAL MEMBERS:

Howard E. Scott (b. March 15, 1946, San Pedro, CA): guitar, vocals
Harold Brown (b. March 17, 1946, Long Beach, CA): drums, vocals, percussion
Lee Oskar (b. March 24, 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark): harmonica, vocals
B. B. Dickerson (b. Morris Dickerson, August 3, 1949, Torrance, CA): bass, vocals
Lonnie Jordan (b. November 21, 1948, San Diego, CA): keyboards, vocals
Charles Miller (b. June 2, 1939, Olathe, KS; d. June 13, 1980, Hollywood, CA): saxophone, flute, clarinet, vocals"Papa" Dee Allen (b. Thomas Sylvester Allen, July 18, 1931, Wilmington, DE; d. August 30, 1988, Long Beach, CA): percussion, vocals.

HiSTORY:

In 1976, War released a greatest hits record which contained one new song "Summer",
which, as a single, went gold and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard chart.
Also released that year were Love is All Around by Eric Burdon and War,
containing mostly unreleased recordings from 1969 and 1970, and Platinum Jazz,
a one-off album for jazz label Blue Note Records.
The latter double album had cover art to match the greatest hits album,
and was half new material and half compilation, focusing on (but not restricted to) instrumental music.
The group continued to attain success with their next album,
Galaxy (1977) whose title single was inspired by Star Wars.
War's next project was a soundtrack album for the movie Youngblood in 1978.


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Diana Ross - Love Hangover (1976) 45RPM RiP

 

SiNGLE by Diana Ross
from the album ''Diana Ross''


B-side.................."Kiss Me Now"

Released............. March 16, 1976

Format.................45RPM

Recorded.............1975

Genre...................Soul, Disco

Total Time............6' 34''ca.

Writer(s)...............Marilyn McLeod, Pamela Sawyer

Producer..............Hal Davis

Label...................Motown

Filetype................Wav @ 48kHz

TRACKLiST:

Side A - Diana Ross - Love Hangover

Side B - Diana Ross - Kiss Me Now


HiSTORY:

"Love Hangover" was the fourth number one single for Motown singer Diana Ross.
It was released in March 1976, and rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100,
Hot Soul Singles and Hot Dance Club Play charts simultaneously.

Written by Pamela Sawyer and Marilyn McLeod as a disco number.
The Motown staff believed that it would be perfect for Ross to record. 

Ross, like her soul contemporaries Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye,
initially resented the new musical movement but eventually agreed to record the song.

Producer Hal Davis instructed the song's engineer Russ Terrana to install a strobe light
so that Ross could be in the "disco" mindset.
As the song changed from ballad to uptempo, Ross became more comfortable with the material;
she hummed, sang bit parts, laughed, danced around and even imitated Billie Holiday.
The carefree and sensual nature of Ross' vocals and the music's direction helped to sell the song.

Hal Davis recorded the track in 1975 thinking it ideal for Marvin Gaye or Diana Ross.
They were his two favorite vocalists to work with and thought Diana would be sexier on it, so he cut it on her.
Miss Ross recorded 'Love Hangover' in 1975 and was released on the LP "Diana Ross" - with a single from it,
"I Thought It Took A Little Time." The album came out Feb 12th, 1976 and two weeks later,
Motown issued I Thought It Took A Little Time as a single. Upon hearing the album, the 5th Dimension
did a copycat cover and released their shorter version of Love Hangover two weeks after that.
Word got to Motown, and Motown issued Ross' version on 45 and it hit huge - burying the 5th Dimension.
Motown, certain Hangover was a #1 for Diana, rushed out her version. Both entered the chart the same day.
By the time "Love Hangover" went to number one, Ross had reinvented herself as a disco diva and the
5th Dimension's version had peaked at number 80.
It won Ross a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance.


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