CAROLYN FRANKLIN Sister Soul- Best Of The RCA Years -New & Sealed Soul CD (Kent)

Description: Label – Kent (2006) Catalogue # CDKEND265 Format - CD Album Condition – New & Sealed - Release Information - Embarking on a career in soul music can’t have been easy for anyone whose sister is Aretha Franklin. Happily her middle sister Erma could boast a career song, in Piece Of My Heart, that is easily the equal of anything big sis has ever made in her 45-years-and-counting recording career. ** see full description for track listing & more info on this release CAROLYN FRANKLIN Sister Soul- Best Of The RCA Years -New & Sealed Soul CD (Kent) Description Carolyn Franklin - Sister Soul The Best Of The RCA Years 1969-1976 Track Listing 01 All I Want To Be Is Your Woman 02 There I Go Aka Se Per Te C'e' Soltanto Quell 'Uomo 03 It's True I'm Gonna Miss You 04 Ain't That Groovy 05 The Boxer 06 On A Back Street 07 I Don't Want To Lose You 08 Reality 09 Don't Wake Me Up In The Morning, Michael 10 You Really Didn't Mean It 11 I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else 12 Chain Reaction 13 Not On The Outside 14 Boy I Love You 15 Shattered Pride 16 You Are Everything 17 Darling I'd Rather Aka I'd Rather Be Lonely 18 I Can't Help My Feeling So Blue 19 You Can Have My Soul 20 As Long As You Are There 21 I Won't Let You Go 22 If You Want Me Release Information Embarking on a career in soul music can’t have been easy for anyone whose sister is Aretha Franklin. Happily her middle sister Erma could boast a career song, in Piece Of My Heart, that is easily the equal of anything big sis has ever made in her 45-years-and-counting recording career. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for their baby sister Carolyn, who – despite writing several of Aretha’s biggest and best hits of the 60s and 70s – plugged away at her own solo career for the best part of 12 years, without any more than a handful of small R&B hits of her own to show for her pains. Sadly, both Erma and Carolyn both died young. Erma was anthologised on CD a few years ago, when Piece Of My Heart was a deserved – if belated – UK hit in the 90s in the wake of its association with a jeans commercial. But Carolyn’s recordings for RCA Victor – the label she was affiliated to from 1969 through 1976 – have never been comprehensively reissued in any format since her four original vinyl albums were deleted in the 1970s. Happily Kent proudly presents 22 tracks and nearly 78 minutes’ worth of the younger Ms Franklin’s best recorded work, under the wholly appropriate title of SISTER SOUL. Although she stood in some pretty big shadows from a musical standpoint, Carolyn was very much her own woman as a vocalist, and this is apparent on each of the tracks we have selected from her four albums and 45s. Like Erma she was never in any danger of being seen as a younger clone of her sister. She always strove to assert her musical independence by working with a string of top flight arrangers and producers who had not worked with other members of her family. In Carolyn’s case, this meant collaborating with – among others - such soul arranger-producer heavyweights as Philadelphia’s Bobby Martin and the New York giants Buddy Scott and Jimmy Radcliffe. These redoubtable gentlemen poured their own magic on Carolyn’s fiery vocals and great songwriting to produce some thoroughly spellbinding recordings. We’ve included as many as will fit within the playing constraints of a single CD. As befits a singer of this level of passion and commitment, the CD focuses heavily on ballads. It takes a lot of nerve to try to beat the late Linda Jones at her own game, but Carolyn’s version of Not On The Outside has and is all that and more. Her church background is evident everywhere on this set, perhaps never more so than on the single only soulshredder All I Want to Be Is Your Woman. And her southern roots are beautifully displayed on her revival of the Masqueraders’ I Ain’t Got To Love Nobody Else – just a few of the highlights on offer in the department marked ‘slowies’. Carolyn Franklin could also get to grips with something faster, as shown by her long-time Northern Soul floor fillers Reality and Boxer – both of which still sound as fresh and exciting now as they did when we first stomped to them, three and a half decades ago. In fact, there was really very little that Carolyn Franklin could not do well. It’s just a shame that not enough people were ready to acknowledge that fact back in the day, nor to afford her a solo star status that – once you hear these great recordings – you will agree was fully deserved. We hope we’ve done Carolyn Franklin proud with SISTER SOUL and we hope, too, that it will bring her somewhat neglected talent to the kind of mass audience that should have been Carolyn’s from minute one. by Tony Rounce - Ace Records Label – Kent (2006) Catalogue # CDKEND265 Format - CD Album Condition – New & Sealed Click images to enlarge Shipping SHIPPING COSTS CD UK ONLY: FREE 2nd class or £1.50 1st Class, £3.00 Royal Mail Tracked 48, £7.00 Special Delivery (excluding Saturday) EUROPE : £6.50 AIRMAIL add only £1.00 per item postage on each additional CD UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN £8.00 AIRMAIL add only £1.00 per item postage on each additional CD AUSTRALIA : £8.00 AIRMAIL add only £1.00 per item postage on each additional CD REGISTERED MAIL EUROPE: £12.00 add only £1.00 per item postage on each additional CD UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, ASIA, RUSSIA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AMERICAS, REST OF THE WORLD : £13.00 add only £1.00 per item postage on each additional CD Please use 'add to basket' option on ebay.co.uk when buying more than one item so postage discounts are applied or an invoice can be requested. 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