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Candi Staton is perhaps best known today for a couple of big disco tunes, Young Hearts Run Free and You Got The Love, but before those she had enjoyed a big run of southern soul hits, all recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals AL with producer Rick Hall. They have the classic gritty Muscle Shoals sound with big, fat lithe horns and female choruses, and dissect the seamier side of life with titles like I’d Rather Be An Old Man’s Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool), Mr And Mrs Untrue and Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man.Candi had grown up singing, first inmore… the church choir as a schoolgirl, and in gospel groups from the age of eight onwards, later touring with Aretha, Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and others, and had no difficulty whatsoever in switching to the rhythm and blues and country soul she recorded for Fame. Her naturally sweet voice was deliberately given a hoarser edge by Rick Hall through over singing to get the soulful effect he desired. Country music was as big in Alabama as soul so it was unsurprising that Candi should have hits with her heartfult interpretations of Stand By Your Man and In The Ghetto.This collection gathers most of the best of the classic recordings she made with the Muscle Shoals crew between 1969 and 1973, and which had been overlooked for far too long. They are not presented in chronological order and the notes are very hazy as to what was recorded when, and which of them were singles and which were album cuts. Eight A-sides and nine B-sides are actually included, with all but one A-side (Love Chain, from 1973) and three B-sides (tracks 13, 19 and 26) also appearing on her first three albums. In fact, the first two albums are present in full. I'm Just A Prisoner (1969) can be recreated by programming tracks 5, 3, 15, 2, 9, 10, 6, 1, 7 and 22, while Stand By Your Man (1971) comprised tracks 12, 17, 1 (again), 16, 14, 8, 9, 18, 20 and 23. Her third album, Candi Staton (1972) is represented by tracks 21, 4, 15 and 25.
| 1 |
I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin') |
| 2 |
Evidence |
| 3 |
I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool) |
| 4 |
The Best Thing You Ever Had |
| 5 |
Someone You Use |
| 6 |
That's How Strong My Love Is |
| 7 |
Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man |
| 8 |
He Called Me Baby |
| 9 |
Sweet Feeling |
| 10 |
Do Your Duty |
| 11 |
Love Chain |
| 12 |
Stand By Your Man |
| 13 |
Heart On A String |
| 14 |
Too Hurt To Cry |
| 15 |
You Don't Love Me No More |
| 16 |
Mr And Mrs Untrue |
| 17 |
How Can I Put Out The Flame (When You Keep The Fire Burning) |
| 18 |
To Hear You Say You're Mine |
| 19 |
Sure As Sin |
| 20 |
What Would Become Of Me |
| 21 |
In The Ghetto |
| 22 |
Get It When I Want It |
| 23 |
Freedom Is Just Beyond The Door |
| 24 |
I'll Drop Everything And Come Running |
| 25 |
The Thanks I Get For Loving You |
| 26 |
I'm Gonna Hold On (To What I Got This Time) |
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- Music > Albums
- Case Type:
- CD
- Release Type:
- Retail
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- Candi Staton - Candi Staton (2004) Retail CD
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