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(2007/WARNER) 22 tracks, Atlantic recordings 1966-71 more

Percy Sledge: The Platinum Collection

(2007/WARNER) 22 tracks, Atlantic recordings 1966-71

Article properties: Percy Sledge: The Platinum Collection

  • Interpret: Percy Sledge

  • Album titlle: The Platinum Collection

  • Label WARNER

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0081227999476

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Sledge, Percy - The Platinum Collection CD 1
01 When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge
02 Warm And Tender Love Percy Sledge
03 It Tears Me Up Percy Sledge
04 Try A Little Tenderness Percy Sledge
05 The Dark End Of The Street Percy Sledge
06 Take Time To Know Her Percy Sledge
07 True Love Travels On A Gravel Road Percy Sledge
08 Stop The World Tonight Percy Sledge
09 It's All Wrong But It's Alright Percy Sledge
10 Out Of Left Field Percy Sledge
11 Cover Me Percy Sledge
12 Put A Little Lovin' On Me Percy Sledge
13 Love Me Like You Mean It Percy Sledge
14 I'm Hanging Up Heart For You Percy Sledge
15 Bless Your Sweet Little Soul Percy Sledge
16 Sudden Stop Percy Sledge
17 Drown In My Own Tears Percy Sledge
18 Kind Woman Percy Sledge
19 Push Mr Pride Aside Percy Sledge
20 It Can't Be Stopped Percy Sledge
21 Love Me Tender Percy Sledge
22 Rainbow Road Percy Sledge
Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman Percy... more
"Percy Sledge"

Percy Sledge

When A Man Loves A Woman

Percy Sledge

When A Man Loves A Woman

Percy Sledge wrote and sang with spine-chilling intensity one of the greatest and most enduring soul ballads of all time, even though his name is nowhere to be found as the composer of When A Man Loves A Woman.

 

Born November 25, 1941 in Leighton, Alabama, Percy was another secular convert. "I started in church, like most all of us did,” he says. "Then I would sing in choir in church, growing up as a boy.” Percy looked up to his cousin, soul singer Jimmy Hughes. "I used to worry Jimmy to death about trying to help me get a record,” says Sledge, who wasn't seriously contemplating a musical career until his job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital dried up.

"I got laid off, and James Richard, who was the music director at Sterling High School, called me up the same day I got laid off and asked me would I be interested in sitting in for his vocalist, because his vocalist was sick and he was doing a private party that Christmas Eve,”  he says. "And I told him I had never sung before in my life with no horns and guitars and drums. Which I hadn't. I always sung acappella, just me and the guys on the sidewalk. He told me, 'Well, I'll pay you $50.' I said, 'Well, what time do you want me to be there?' That was a lot of money in those days.”

The band was called The Esquires, its members including bassist Calvin Lewis and organist Andrew 'Pop' Wright. As the evening progressed, Percy downed a few drinks and began to improvise. "I made up this song, 'Why Did You Leave Me Baby,'”  hesays. "For the lyrics, I just throwed something in there.”  WLAY deejay Quin Ivy dug his performance. "He liked the melody,” says Percy. "He told me if I was to put some strong lyrics behind that melody that I was singing, I might have a hit record.

"He was building a small studio right behind Abrams Department Store in Sheffield, and he asked me, would I be interested in cutting a record. And I told him yes. He said, 'Well, you get some lyrics for that song, and when I get through with my studio, you'll be the first!' So I went back to him, I guess about three or four weeks later, and he asked me, 'Percy, have you got the lyrics for that 'Why Did You Leave Me Baby?'' I said, 'No, I told you it's about a girl I used to be in love with. You know how it is when a man loves a woman. He can't think!' He said, 'Hey! That's it right there! Hold it right there!' So he thought that that would be a great title.”

Ivy's primitive Quinvy studio was where When A Man Loves A Woman was committed to tape, Muscle Shoals regulars Roger Hawkins on drums and Spooner Oldham on organ. Writers' credit went to Esquires Wright and Lewis. Producer Ivy took the tape to Fame Studios head Rick Hall, who got so excited that he called up Jerry Wexler and guaranteed When A Man Loves A Woman was a number one smash. Hall was right on the mark: it soon sat proudly atop both the pop and R&B hit parades on Atlantic.

 

- Bill Dahl -

Various - Sweet Soul Music

Various - Sweet Soul Music 29 Scorching Classics From 1966

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10 Sep 2017

percy Sledge the Platinum Collection

das Platinum Collection ist eine preiswerte und exzellente Collection. das Percy Sledge CD ist eine superbe Kompilation, alle Hits vom Percy Slege sind diesem CD enthalten.
Vom When a man loves a woman, sein grosses Hit bis zum sein Cover vom Love Me Tender or rainbow road.

Sie mögen Percy Sledge, das ist das Album, dass Sie brauchen.

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Tracklist
Sledge, Percy - The Platinum Collection CD 1
01 When A Man Loves A Woman
02 Warm And Tender Love
03 It Tears Me Up
04 Try A Little Tenderness
05 The Dark End Of The Street
06 Take Time To Know Her
07 True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
08 Stop The World Tonight
09 It's All Wrong But It's Alright
10 Out Of Left Field
11 Cover Me
12 Put A Little Lovin' On Me
13 Love Me Like You Mean It
14 I'm Hanging Up Heart For You
15 Bless Your Sweet Little Soul
16 Sudden Stop
17 Drown In My Own Tears
18 Kind Woman
19 Push Mr Pride Aside
20 It Can't Be Stopped
21 Love Me Tender
22 Rainbow Road