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GLORIA ANN TAYLOR
LOVE IS A HURTIN' THING

€45,00
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LHLP086

UBIQUITY / LUV N' HAIGHT
USLP 2019 (2015) (compilation of 1970s tracks)
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

TRACKLIST
A1 Love Is A Hurtin' Thing
A2 How Can You Say It
A3 What I Want
A4 Burning Eyes
A5 Deep Inside Of You
B1 World That's Not Real
B2 What's Your World
B3 Had It All The Time
B4 Jolene
B5 Music

ABOUT
Amidst much anticipation from collectors, record stores, and DJs alike, the repress of Gloria Ann Taylor’s musical output on Selector Sound is available. Originally released in 2015 as a deluxe double LP that included her "Deep Inside You" EP, this updated version is a single 180 g LP package with the 10 tracks compiled from her 7-inch singles on Selector Sound and comes with a booklet of photos and extensive liner notes. Soul singer Gloria Ann Taylor has no rags-to-riches tale to tell. Her story is about personal sacrifice, failed relationships, and missed opportunities. She led a hard-knock life before being swept up by the flash and promise of a marriage and business partnership with a successful record producer. She would be nominated for a Grammy, rub shoulders with James Brown and Bootsy Collins, and turn heads at Motown. But in the end, she rejected professional singing, the music business, and the lifestyle that came with it. Thankfully for music lovers, before Gloria closed the doors on her singing career, she left us with some amazing soul songs. Deeply shaded by gospel roots, her haunting sound comes from the gut. Gloria did not fake the funk. Gloria was a partial owner of the Selector Sounds label, with her husband/producer Walter Whisenhunt (previously a right-hand man to James Brown), and her brother Leonard. They released five Gloria Taylor singles between 1971 and 1977. They also released the three-song Deep Inside You EP under the name Gloria Ann Taylor and Walter Whisenhunt’s Orchestra. Whisenhunt would work up a unique musical brew in the studio that mixed northern soul with exotic percussion and fuzzy psychedelic guitars. He moved Gloria through a range of tempos and stylings from ballads to disco. Her gritty vocal performance was set to orchestral arrangements, creating a juxtaposition of grandeur and solace. The pinnacle of their collaborations has to be the jaw-droppingly epic EP version of “Love Is a Hurting Thing”,; a chugging, string-laden disco track that sounds like proto-Theo Parrish.
STYLE
  • Soul
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