Gayle McCormick - One More Hour

Gayle McCormick - One More Hour - 1974 

Terceiro e último álbum da carreira solo de Gayle McCormick antes dela abandonar o mundo da música e desaparecer dos olhos da mídia e dos fans. E eu tenho comigo a impressão de que o resultado deste álbum colaborou muito para sua decisão. Esse disco é puramente POP, uma tentativa frustrada dos executivos da gravadora e de seu produtor de transformá-la naquilo que ela jamais seria.

Entre uma ou outra faixa, como em Original Midnight, I Know ou na Faixa Título ainda há alguns suspiros (ou seriam estertores?) da cantora que encantara muitos. Mas no todo, é um disco que não merecia ser dado a ela como despedida.

01. Why Can't I Just Make Love To You
02. Creation
03. Original Midnight Mama
04. One Of Us
05. Even A Fool Would Let You Go
06. Cryin' Shame
07. One More Hour
08. I Know
09. The Days Of Lovin' You
10. Guilty
11. He Believes In Me


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Gayle McCormick- Gayle McCormick (RE-POST)

Gayle McCormick- Gayle McCormick- 1971

from wikipedia
Gayle McCormick was born in St. Louis on the 26th of November 1948. Gayle attended Pattonville High in St. Louis and sang high soprano with the Suburb Choir, a 150-voice unit that performed annually with the St. Louis Symphony. Her recording and performing career stretched from 1965 to 1976. McCormick had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner and Etta James.

In 1969 Smith was formed in Los Angeles, California, their first album entitled "A Group Called Smith," featured Gayle McCormick as the primary vocalist. Smith mainly played and recorded covers of pop and soul songs and made the top ten with a remake of "Baby It's You", a previous hit for The Shirelles, was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse film Death Proof.

After the group disbanded, McCormick went on to record three solo albums. In the fall of 1971, her performance of "It's A Cryin' Shame" charted at #44.

01. It's A Cryin' Shame
02. Superstar
03. C'est La Vie
04. Natural Woman
05. You Really Got A Hold On Me
06. Rescue Me
07. If Only You Believe
08. Save Me
09. Everyting Has Got To Be Free
10. Gonna Be Alright Now





+@320 (CD reissued 2008)

Gayle McCormick - Flesh & Blood

Gayle McCormick - Flesh & Blood 1972 

Flesh And Blood é o segundo album solo da ex-vocalista da Smith. Lançado em 1972, da sua discografia solo é o mais Funky e, basicamente, R&Blues. Bem diferente do seu primeiro (já foi postado aqui) que é essencialmente pop.

Embora a capa do disco possa sugerir algo vulgar e ordinário, com a clara tentativa do mainstream (no caso Decca/MCA) de transformá-la na putinha da hora, é um disco muito bom, indispensável pra quem curte clássicos da R&B, Soul, Funky.

Outra coisa: Pra quem já tem e pegou em um rip horrivel cheio de estalos que roda pela net, vale a pena pegá-lo novamente. Esse, embora também de vinil (já que nunca foi relançado em CD), passou por uma espécie de WikiTeacher remaster (kkkkkk) e está - digamos - nota 7.0. 

01.Take Me Back    
02.Near You    
03.Sweet Feeling    
04.Knight In Shining Armou    
05.Stay With Me    
06.Flesh And Blood    
07.Whoever's Thrilling You Is Killing Me    
08.Make Myself Over    
09.Grey Live Tour    
10.Alabam    

Gayle McCormick - Vocals
Stan Seymore - Guitar
Frank Collette* - Keyboads
Ray Neopolitan - Bass
Maurice Miller - Drums





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Gayle McCormick - Gayle McCormick

Gayle McCormick- Gayle McCormick- 1971

from wikipedia
Gayle McCormick was born in St. Louis on the 26th of November 1948. Gayle attended Pattonville High in St. Louis and sang high soprano with the Suburb Choir, a 150-voice unit that performed annually with the St. Louis Symphony. Her recording and performing career stretched from 1965 to 1976. McCormick had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner and Etta James.

In 1969 Smith was formed in Los Angeles, California, their first album entitled "A Group Called Smith," featured Gayle McCormick as the primary vocalist. Smith mainly played and recorded covers of pop and soul songs and made the top ten with a remake of "Baby It's You", a previous hit for The Shirelles, was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse film Death Proof.

After the group disbanded, McCormick went on to record three solo albums. In the fall of 1971, her performance of "It's A Cryin' Shame" charted at #44.

01. It's A Cryin' Shame

02. Superstar
03. C'est La Vie
04. Natural Woman
05. You Really Got A Hold On Me
06. Rescue Me
07. If Only You Believe
08. Save Me
09. Everyting Has Got To Be Free
10. Gonna Be Alright Now

NB: A versão de Superstar encontrada nesse disco é para mim, sem dúvida, a melhor que já ouvi em minha vida.





+ @320 (CD reissued 2008)

Gayle McCormick - Gayle McCormick

Gayle McCormick- Gayle McCormick- 1971

from wikipedia
Gayle McCormick was born in St. Louis on the 26th of November 1948. Gayle attended Pattonville High in St. Louis and sang high soprano with the Suburb Choir, a 150-voice unit that performed annually with the St. Louis Symphony. Her recording and performing career stretched from 1965 to 1976. McCormick had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner and Etta James.

In 1969 Smith was formed in Los Angeles, California, their first album entitled "A Group Called Smith," featured Gayle McCormick as the primary vocalist. Smith mainly played and recorded covers of pop and soul songs and made the top ten with a remake of "Baby It's You", a previous hit for The Shirelles, was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse film Death Proof.

After the group disbanded, McCormick went on to record three solo albums. In the fall of 1971, her performance of "It's A Cryin' Shame" charted at #44.

01. It's A Cryin' Shame

02. Superstar
03. C'est La Vie
04. Natural Woman
05. You Really Got A Hold On Me
06. Rescue Me
07. If Only You Believe
08. Save Me
09. Everyting Has Got To Be Free
10. Gonna Be Alright Now

NB: A versão de Superstar encontrada nesse disco é para mim, sem dúvida, a melhor que já ouvi em minha vida.





+ @320 (CD reissued 2008)