The next set of Paul Simpson The Philadelphia Re-edit Sessions
was released on Tuesday (19 Jul 2022). It's a bit of a 'left field' choice
being B.B. King.
Don't forget that these are only ever available from
Bandcamp
for a limited two week period so this one will be gone by 2
Aug!
The album consists of four tracks from "To Know You Is To Love You" (1973) and five from "Friends" (1974) both released on ABC.
Both albums were recorded at the famed Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia and
produced by Dave Crawford who wrote the Candi Staton's hit "Young
Hearts Run Free". He also contributed to the writing of most of the
tracks although "To Know You Is To Love You" was written by Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright, "Baby I'm Yours" by Van McCoy (first recorded by Barbara Lewis in 1965) and "Respect Yourself" by Luther Ingram and Sir Mack Rice (a US hit for Staple Singers in 1971 (one of their biggest) but, as often the case, Robert Palmer, The Kane Gang and Bruce Willis had UK pop chart success with it and the Staple Singers didn't!).
1973 - To Know You Is To Love You *
1974 - Friends **
Track Listing:
1 - Friends (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 06:47 **
2 - To know you is to love you (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 08:33 *
3 - Philadelphia (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 05:37 **
4 - I like to live the love (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 04:46 *
5 - Respect yourself (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 05:14 *
6 - Who are you (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 05:37 *
7 - I got them blues (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 04:26 **
8 - Baby I'm yours (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 04:30 **
9 - My song (Paul Simpson Re-edit) 04:37 **
| Rating: | 8 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Soul Blues / Remixes |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Simpson Uniquity |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 19/07/2022 |
| Price: | $8.99 |
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Coming from these 2 LPs on ABC, this selection is very good. Paul Simpson strove to select the less blues pieces to take only the rather soulful tracks.
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