Description
Release Date: 2012
Label: Kent
Track List
- Tell Daddy
- I Stayed Away Too Long
- Thread The Needle
- Don’t Make My Baby Cry
- She Ain’t Gonna Do Right
- The Road Of Love
- Looking For A Fox
- I Can’t See Myself (Crying About You)
- Funky Fever
- Slip Away
- Too Weak To Fight
- Let Me Comfort You
- Back Door Santa
- That Old Time Feeling
- Snatching It Back
- Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)
- The Feeling Is Right
- You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure
- Doin’ Our Thing
- I Smell A Rat
- Take It Off Him And Put It On Me
- The Few Troubles I’ve Had
- I Can’t Leave Your Love Alone
- Devil Woman
Notes
The next step of our adventure through the Fame Records catalogue focuses on the singles of Clarence Carter, Fame’s biggest star. His 45s from this period were issued on Fame, Atlantic and United Artists. For the first time ever we bring together every a and B-side he recorded for Rick Hall. “h the first volume covers the singles released between 1966-1970, including the million-selling Slip Away’, and five other top ten R&B hits including Too Weak to Fight’ and Snatching It Back’. It also includes classic southern R&B dancers Looking for a Fox’, Tell Daddy’ and Thread the Needle’. “h Clarence is backed on many of these records by the classic first Fame rhythm section of Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, and Barry Beckett; every track is produced by Rick Hall. All but the sadly departed Beckett gave exclusive interviews about Clarence Carter for the sleeve notes.
