SOLOMON BURKE, IF YOU NEED ME. 1963 MONO 8085 G+/NM
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Hello, and welcome to my listing. Most of my LP's are from a magnificient collection that belonged to my Father who worked at a record store as a young man. I have many duplicates and many still unopened in mint condition. Some of coarse i picked up at record stores in my youth and some are from elder relatives, all this meaning that most are true first editions.
I am not a certified record grader but have spent much time researching and handling the LP's which i list. I grade according to the "Gold Mine Record Pricing Guide" and do my best according to my visual aspect and should i feel need or am requested to play any LP before shipping i will also verifiy it is in working condition. Furthermore, i am experienced and capable of cleaning vinyl and do so before shipping so when items arrive are ready for immediate use.
Thank you for looking and please add me as a favorite seller as i list new items very frequently and have only a few current listings of what is a collection of over 1000 LP's.
- Condition: USED
- Sleeve: G+
- Vinyl: NM
- Addtional Info: ORIGINAL MONO RECORDING.
While Solomon Burke never made a major impact upon the pop audience -- he never, in fact, had a Top 20 hit -- he was an important early soul pioneer. On his '60s singles for Atlantic, he brought a country influence into R&B, with emotional phrasing and intricately constructed, melodic ballads and midtempo songs. At the same time, he was surrounded with sophisticated "uptown" arrangements and was provided with much of his material by his producers, particularly Bert Berns. The combination of gospel, pop, country, and production polish was basic to the recipe of early soul. While Burke wasn't the only one pursuing this path, not many others did so as successfully. And he, like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, was an important influence upon the Rolling Stones, who covered Burke's "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" on their early albums.
Burke came by his gospel roots even more deeply than most soul stars. He was preaching at his family's Philadelphia church and hosting his own gospel radio show even before he'd reached his teens. He began recording gospel and R&B sides for Apollo in the mid- to late '50s. Like several former gospel singers (Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett), he was molded into a more secular direction when he signed with Atlantic in the '60s. Burke had a wealth of high-charting R&B hits in the early half of the '60s, which crossed over to the pop listings in a mild fashion as well. "Just Out of Reach," "Cry to Me," "If You Need Me," "Got to Get You Off My Mind," "Tonight's the Night," and "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" were the most successful of these, although, unlike Franklin or Pickett, he wasn't able to expand his R&B base into a huge pop following as well. He left Atlantic in the late '60s and spent the next decade hopping between various labels, getting his biggest hit with a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" in 1969, and recording an album in the late '70s with cult soulster Swamp Dogg as producer.
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