A single "All Of The Time, You're On My Mind" is pre-released today from a forthcoming album by
Gloria Scott, "So Wonderful" due on 30 Sep 2022.
Gloria Scott's music has been admired for decades on the rare soul scene.
She released just one album "What Am I Gonna Do" in 1974 produced by Barry White. It spawned a couple of singles ("What
Am I Gonna Do" and "Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will
Never Be Another)") followed by a third and the most sought after, issued
only in Australia on 7", "(A Case Of) Too Much Lovemakin'" which was
covered by Lisa Stansfield many years later in 1993 on "So Natural" and
Paprika Soul had a stab at it in 2018. I think from recollection it was
also recorded around 2000 by Kim Weston but I think it was a white label
'bootleg' taken from a compilation CD that Ian Levine was
behind. All above versions were posted in Nov 2020.
The new single is one of three on the forthcoming album that is from the period she was working with Barry White that were never released.
She recorded her first single in 1964 as Gloria Scott & The Tonettes "I Taught Him" on Warner Bros. which is a rockin' R&B tune written and produced by Sly Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone). It failed to chart and later she became an one of The Ikettes, before meeting Barry White who signed her on a 7 year contract, but owing to his own career taking off, and being signed to a start up label, which Casablanca was at the time, Scott was neglected.
The album has been reissued multiple times on both vinyl and CD such is
it's popularity.
She recorded a second album with H. B. Barnum but it was not released and she later became a background singer for Mary Wilson (Supremes).
In more recent times Gloria has become a regular performer at The
Baltic Soul Weekender in Germany each summer.
Both her 1974 singles entered R&B chart with the first reaching #74 and second "Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another)" getting to #14 which garnered it an appearance on Soul Train but only with dancers featured in video below not a live appearance. In typical Barry White fashion, both flip sides were instrumentals of the A sides.
A few weeks ago (3 Jun) she released a cover of Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" which will be on the new album.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
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| Rating: | 8.2 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Neo Soul |
| Format: | Single |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Acid Jazz |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 20/07/2022 |
| Key/BPM: | 5B/78 |
| Price: | £1 |
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Happy to see her back in the foreground. You have a good memory. Kim Weston did a good version of "A case of too much lovemaking" from 1994 (Property of MotorCity Records and Hot Productions). No further details.
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To complete there is another piece by Gloria Scott & The Tonettes "Don't Say I Didn't Warn You" produced by Sly Stone published in 1994 on a CD "Sly Stone - Precious Stone (In The Studio With Sly Stone 1963-1965). I don't know when it dates because it is very well recorded and in stereo. Strange for the time!!!
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