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│║ Carla Thomas - the Queen Alone ║│
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│║ Record Label: Rhino No Of Tracks: 11 ║│
│║ Genre: Soul Quality: 192K HQ ║│
│║ Rip Date: Sep-30-2003 Total Size: 42,9 MB ║│
└╢ Issue Year: 1969 Original Media: [x] CD - [ ] Vinyl ╟┘
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│║ Tracklisting: ║│
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│║ 01 - Any Day Now 03:38 ║│
│║ 02 - Stop Thief 02:41 ║│
│║ 03 - I Take it to My Baby 03:01 ║│
│║ 04 - I Want to Be Your Baby 02:17 ║│
│║ 05 - Something Good (is Going to Happen to You) 02:38 ║│
│║ 06 - When Tomorrow Comes 02:36 ║│
│║ 07 - I'll Always Have Faith in You 02:55 ║│
│║ 08 - All I See is You 03:39 ║│
│║ 09 - Unchanging Love 02:50 ║│
│║ 10 - Give Me Enough (to Keep Me Going) 02:30 ║│
│║ 11 - Lie to Keep Me form Crying 02:27 ║│
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│║ 31:12 ║│
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│║ This is a 1992 US CD Re-Issue of The 1969 Original Album. ║│
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│║ About The Album ║│
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│║ Carla Thomas was more than deserving of her title "The Queen of ║│
│║ Memphis Soul," but she was hardly oblivious to the sleeker, more ║│
│║ pop-influenced sweet soul and uptown soul coming out of Detroit, ║│
│║ Philadelphia and Chicago. One of her strongest albums, The Queen ║│
│║ Alone isn't the work of someone who took a Memphis-only approach, ║│
│║ but of someone who was well aware of what Gladys Knight, Dionne ║│
│║ Warwick, Martha Reeves and others were up to. What's surprising ║│
│║ is the fact that this album (reissued on CD in 1992) contains ║│
│║ only two hits: the playful "Something Good (Is Going to Happen to ║│
│║ You)," which made it to number 29 on Billboard's soul singles ║│
│║ chart, and the idealistic, gospel-influenced ballad and number 11 ║│
│║ R&B single "I'll Always Have Faith In You." Songs ranging from ║│
│║ the sweet and vulnerable "I Want to Be Your Baby" to the ║│
│║ remorseful "All I See Is You" and the pessimistic "Any Day Now" ║│
│║ (a song co-written by Burt Bacharach) weren't singles, but it ║│
│║ wasn't for a lack of heartfelt singing. Drawing on both Southern ║│
│║ and Northern soul, Queen is a pleasant reminder that they were ║│
│║ equally attractive options. ║│
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│║ About The Artist ║│
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│║ In the glorious decade and a half of sound that was Stax in the ║│
│║ '60s and early '70s, Carla Thomas was the Queen of Memphis Soul. ║│
│║ She was born in Memphis in 1942, and 18 years later she recorded ║│
│║ a duet with her father Rufus Thomas, giving the fledgling ║│
│║ Satellite label its first taste of success with the regional hit ║│
│║ "Cause I Love You." As her 18th birthday drew nigh, she cut her ║│
│║ first solo single, the teen ballad "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)." ║│
│║ Written a few years earlier and rejected by Vee-Jay in Chicago, ║│
│║ it gave Satellite its first national hit, breaking the Top Ten ║│
│║ mark on both the R&B and pop charts. Shortly thereafter Satellite ║│
│║ became Stax, and Carla proceeded to claw her way onto the ║│
│║ national charts another 22 times with such immortal slices of ║│
│║ soul as her answer song to Sam Cooke, "I'll Bring It on Home to ║│
│║ You," as well as "Let Me Be Good to You," "B-A-B-Y," "Tramp" ║│
│║ (with Otis Redding), and "I Like What You're Doing to Me." Carla ║│
│║ released six solo albums and, with Redding, one duet album on ║│
│║ Stax between 1961 and 1971. ║│
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│║ Remember to support these artists by some method if you like them ║│
│║ by going to their concerts / buying more of their material / etc. ║│
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│║ Infinite Grooves was founded in early 1999 with the belief that ║│
│║ the best music has already been made. This was a neglected part ║│
│║ of releasing in the MP3-scene - now that has changed with Infinite ║│
│║ Grooves at the top. We will constantly keep bringing you the very ║│
│║ best in disco-soul, rare grooves, jazz-funk etc. Like wine, a good ║│
│║ groove only gets better with age - so we will bring you back to ║│
│║ the olde school! ║│
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·∙-─(Updated 02-Feb-2002)-∙·