MERRY CLAYTON - Gimme Shelter - original '70 Ode lbl soul funk LP - EX/NM vinyl
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MERRY CLAYTON - "Gimme Shelter"
(Ode sp77001; Stereo; 1970). RARE. (**Click on the pictures above for more info - *Double click for larger image**).
**This is an original (not a modern reissue) EX/NM vinyl copy of this highly regarded soul funk LP.
NOTE: 'Funk My Soul' review:
"In order to understand the genuine class act you’re dealing with here, a potted-history of Merry Clayton’s past vocal glories will set the scene. She contributed to Neil Young‘s “The Old Laughing Lady” and “I’ve Loved Her So Long” on his self-titled debut album in 1968, sings on Joe Cocker‘s “Feelin’ Alright” from his “With A Little Help From My Friends” debut album from 1969 and is on Allen Toussaint‘s magical “From A Whisper To A Scream” (1970). Just as impressively Merry sings on “Way Over Yonder”, “Where You Lead” and “Smackwater Jack” on Carole King‘s magisterial “Tapestry” album (1971). Then there are sessions for B.B. King, Jesse Davis, Neil Diamond, Charles Wright, Jimmy Witherspoon, Billy Preston, Lee Michaels, Linda Ronstadt, Leon Russell, Ruth Copeland, Chi Coltrane, David T. Walker, Etta James, Rare Earth, The Who and even Ringo Starr. But her most famous outing has to be her duet vocals with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter”, one of the standout album tracks from “Let It Bleed”, the Rolling Stones masterpiece from 1969. She even turns up on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” in 1974 and “Cornflake Girl” by Tori Amos in 1994.
Released on Ode Records in late 1970 the album features a world-class session band (Victor Feldman on Vibes, Joe Sample of The Crusaders on keyboards etal) and was top-heavy with contemporary cover versions of the time. Musically this is uplifting Soul with organs, brass, femme backing singers and impassioned lead vocals – a sort of Atlantic Aretha Franklin one moment, then United Artists Tina Turner the next. And right from her opening cover of James Taylor’s “Country Road” – the album hits you with one classy tune after another. Number 2 is another upbeat reinterpretation – a great variant of The Doors “Tell All the People“. But both are aced by a slowed-down and deeply soulful version of Simon and Garfunkel’s beautiful anthem “Bridge Over Troubled Waters“. Written by Galt McDermot “I’ve Got Life” started out in the “Hair” musical and was made famous by Nina Simone on her 1968 “Nuff ‘Said” album. Side 1 ends with her own superb take on “Gimme Shelter” with its “just a shot away…” lyrics.
Side Two opens with pure magic, a cover of the James Cleveland song “Here Comes Those Heartaches Again” done originally by Kim Weston, the song elevates into sublime Jimmy Webb territory, a little like “5:30 Plane” by The Supremes on their 1972 Motown LP “The Supremes Produced and Arranged By Jimmy Webb”. That gorgeous orchestration appears again on the album’s lone original “I Ain’t Gonna Worry My Life Away”, a blistering Etta James type torch ballad that Merry co-wrote with Billy Preston. The other superb Billy Preston contribution here is “You’ve Been Acting Strange”, his own version surfaced on his September 1970 Apple Records album “Encouraging Words”. There’s a Jimmy Miller (Rolling Stones Producer) and Gary Wright (of Spooky Tooth) song too called “Forget It, I Got It” which is so slinky and very cool. Things are brassed-up again with Billy Page’s “Good Girls” and rounded off with a crowd-in-the studio version of “Glad Tidings”, a Van Morrison cover from his 1970 “Moondance” album, an upbeat finisher. Concluding, with so many great song choices this an absolute gem of an album".
**NOTE: Dead wax vinyl trail-off matrix info: Monarch Recording symbol .
**NOTE: Comes with original Ode company inner sleeve.
**Heavy vinyl pressing (160 Grams) is EX / NEAR MINT.
**Cover has some ring and edge wear, creases, some black felt marker on the edge, small seam split bottom center. (see pictures)
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