Carl Bean and Universal Love Lp NM ORIGINAL abc
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Carl Bean & the Universal Love "All we need is Love".Very rare Soul, funk,gospel .Buyer to pay $4.00 s/h thanks for looking************Carl Bean was not new to the music industry; as an already out Black man, he began his professional career in a Gospel troupe led by legend Alex Bradford. With the group, Bean had the opportunity to perform on Broadway in shows like Your Arms Too Short to Box with God and Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope. By 1974 he was fronting a group called Universal Love that was signed to the ABC/Peacock label. The group faltered, as Bean explains in his recently published memoir I Was Born This Way, because the group was “ahead of the curve. I was part of a movement looking to erase the line between R&B and gospel.
Universal Love's album, which was called All We Need Is Love, came out in 1974.********Despite the album's lack of commercial success, Bean showed up on Motown’s radar because of Universal Love. According to Bean, in his first meeting with Motown executive Gwen Gordy, she admitted that her brother Berry thought “Bean would be perfect. It’s a message song with a gospel feel. Bean will tear it up.” Besides Harris and Kersey, Motown brought in Tom Moulton for an extended mix, that was marketed directly to Discos, since Black radio stations were unlikely to support the song, even from a valued label like Motown. In the book, The Fabulous Sylvester, DJ Leslie Stoval tells author Joshua Gamson that Sylvester was “informally blacklisted because he was gay…they weren’t ready to give this gay man his place. They didn’t want to deal with it.” Such was the environment that Motown and Bean faced. Nevertheless, without the support of radio, I Was Born This Way became a major club hit, that placed Carl Bean on the precipice of major success.
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