Soul Sounds
© Copyright-2009 Reel Music. (p) 2009 Universal Music Enterprises
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Record Label: Reel Music
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Chris' classic 1967 album, remastered in 24 bit from the original first generation Motown stereo masters. Some 40 years after its original release, "Soul Sounds" is a tour-de-force for the talents of this 6 ft. California blonde who later went on to achieve an Academy Award nomination for her "Lady Sings The Blues" screenplay. Released in cooperation with Chris, the 16 page full color booklet includes an extensive essay by A. Scott Galloway, as well as many unpublished photos from Ms. Clark's personal collection.
Released by arrangement with Universal Music Group / Motown Records
"Soul Sounds is something quite extraordinary. Marrying the tough R&B of Martha Reeves with the husky artistry of Dusty Springfield and the honeyed talk of The Supremes, Clark's vocal is a perfect vessel for Gordy's and Holland-Dozier-Holland's mini symphonies. The former's I Want To Go Back There Again (co-written with Clark) has both a delicious poignancy and effusiveness, whilst the latter's Whisper You Love Me Boy, first sung by Mary Wells, is a delicious plea. Clark also proves a mean interpreter - Smokey's From Head To Toe and The Beatles' Got To Get You Into My Life become furious dancers, while If You Should Walk Away, later a duet for The Supremes and The Temptations, shows how pure pop balladry should be done."
Lois Wilson – Mojo Magazine
1. I Want To Go Back There Again
2. Love's Gone Bad
3. Born To Love You Baby
4. If You Should Walk Away
5. Whisper You Love Me Boy
6. Got To Get You Into My Life
7. Day By Day Or Never
8. From Head To Toe
9. Do Right Baby, Do Right
10. Until You Love Someone
11. Put Yourself In My Place
12. Sweeter As The Days Go By
13. Do Right Baby, Do Right (previously unreleased stereo mix)
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author: Peters at CD Baby
What can one say about a classic 1967 Motown album that hasn't already been said? She's a 6 foot tall blonde who wrote the screenplay to "Lady Sings the Blues," the gripping biopic about Billie Holiday. There's nothing like the sound of the oft-imitated classic Motown sound. With a style not unlike Dusty Springfield or Bobbie Gentry, Chris Clark has a strong and soulful voice, and naturally, the amazing Motown band to back her up. Now re-issued after being digitally remastered, this album deserves a new generation of fans, and deserves to be re-discovered by fans who loved it the first time around.
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Solid Soul Sounds
author: john a fraser
I have been familiar with Chris Clark’s blue eyed-soul album ‘Soul Sounds’ for over 40 years! After all that time it still sounds fresh and now it’s available again in all its re-mastered splendour
‘Soul Sounds’ was never a commercial success but over time it has become a firm favourite in Motown & northern soul circles and it’s now been recognised for the classic that it is. This release has a lovely 20 page booklet filled with fascinating stories about Chris’s life and the making of the album penned by renowned music writer A. Scott Galloway plus lots of beautiful photographs. The music is of course timeless and to my ears the album was packed full of hits like 'I Want To Go Back There Again', 'Love's Gone Bad', ‘From Head To Toe’, 'If You Should Walk Away', 'Do Right Baby Do Right' & 'Sweeter As The Days Go By'. Surprisingly neither the album nor any of the singles made any real impact and after one further album she moved onto other ventures. This release includes the alternate stereo mix of ‘Do Right Baby Do Right' as a bonus track.
Chris Clark should have been a huge star as she had huge talent. Now thanks to Paul Williams and Reel Music this is your chance to hear what you have been missing out on. Please put this CD in your record collection. You won't regret it.
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