sábado, 24 de março de 2012

Doris Duke

1. I Wish I Could Sleep
2. It Sure Was Fun
3. I Don't Know How (To fall Out Of Love With You)
4. He's Everything I Need
5. I'd Do It All Over You
6. If She's Your Wife (Who Am I)

SIDE B
1. Since I Fell For You
2. Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You
3. Let Love Touch Us Now
4. Bad water
5. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Doris Duke is an American gospel and soul singer.
She was born as Doris Curry in Sandersville, Georgia, and started singing with gospel groups including the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and Caravans. By 1963 she was working in New York City on sessions and as a backing singer at the Apollo Theatre. Under her then married name of Doris Willingham, she recorded her first single, "Running Away from Loneliness" in 1966.This release on Jay Boy Records was not a success, so she continued working as a session singer, mainly in Philadelphia. She also sang back-up on Nina Simone's live album, A Very Rare Evening, recorded in Germany. In 1969, former Atlantic Records producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams Jr. signed her as a solo artiste, renaming her Doris Duke and recording the album I'm A Loser at the Capricorn studio in Macon, Georgia. The album was eventually issued on Canyon Records, and over the years became regarded, by Dave Godin and others, as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The first single, "To the Other Woman", reached the R&B top ten, but success was cut short when the record company collapsed. Subsequent records, including some with Swamp Dogg, had little success, but her album Woman on the British label Contempo received good reviews. She then retired into obscurity.[1][2] An album called Funky Fox, issued on the Manhattan label in 1981, was credited to "Sister Doris Duke", although the tracks are in fact believed to be by other artists.

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