Terry Callier - What Color is Love on Cadet Records CA 50019
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Terry Callier
What Color is Love
On Cadet Records CA 50019
Condition: Cover is VG-, small tear in upper seam and a large tear on the bottom seam. Record is VG+, minor inaudible scuff
ABOUT:
Callier was born in the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in the Cabrini–Green housing area. He learned piano, was a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance and Jerry Butler, and began singing in
doo-wop groups in his teens. In 1962 he took an audition at Chess Records, where he recorded his debut single, "Look at Me Now".[3] At the same time as attending college, he then began performing in folk clubs and
coffee houses in Chicago, becoming strongly influenced by the music of John Coltrane.[4] He met Samuel Charters of Prestige Records in 1964, and the following year they recorded his debut album. Charters then took the
tapes away with him into the Mexican desert, and the album was eventually released in 1968 as The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier.[3][5] Two of Callier's songs, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "It's About Time", were recorded by
the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft in 1968, as part of their H. P. Lovecraft II album.[6] H. P. Lovecraft featured fellow Chicago folk club stalwart George Edwards, who would go on to co-produce several tracks for
Callier in 1969.[6]
He continued to perform in Chicago, and in 1970 joined the Chicago Songwriters Workshop set up by Jerry Butler. He wrote material for Chess and its subsidiary Cadet label, including The Dells' 1972 hit "The Love We
Had Stays on My Mind", as a result of which he won his own recording contract with Cadet as a singer-songwriter. Three critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums followed, produced by Charles Stepney
in a style which critics termed "jazz-folk" - Occasional Rain (1972), What Color Is Love (1973), and I Just Can't Help Myself (1974). He also toured with George Benson, Gil Scott-Heron and others. However, Callier was
then dropped by Cadet, and the Songwriters Workshop closed in 1976. The following year, he signed a new contract with Elektra Records, releasing the albums Fire On Ice (1977) and Turn You to Love (1978).[5][7] The
opening track of the latter album, "Sign Of The Times", was used as the theme tune of radio DJ Frankie Crocker and became Callier's only US chart success, reaching # 78 on the R&B chart in 1979 and prompting his
appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival.[5][8]
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