Sold Date: July 31, 2019
Start Date: June 24, 2019
Final Price: $25.00 (USD)
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Bonnie Bramlett: Lady's Choice FACTORY SEALED LP Format: Sealed LP
Country: U.S.A.
Record Company & Release Number: Capricorn: CP 0169
Original release date/year: 1976
Bar Code: NONE
Condition of the cover: Mint
Condition of the record: Sealed - Assumed Mint
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 2 ounces
My inventory number: 209116B
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I DO NOT END ANY OF MY AUCTIONS EARLY. PLEASE DON'T ASK (unless you are willing to offer enough to pay off my mortgage. Songs
Think (About It) Hold On! I'm Comin' You Send Me Never Gonna Give You Up Let's Go Get Stoned Two Steps from the Blues If I Were Your Woman Ain't That Lovin' You Baby You've Really Got a Hold on Me Thrill on the Hill (Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go) Forever Young
Credits
Charles Rose: Horn Johnny Sandlin: Guitar, Producer Tommy Talton: Guitar Harvey Thompson: Horn Sam Whiteside: Engineer, Remixing Bobby Whitlock: Vocals Marie Kaylan: Art Direction Richard Betts: Guitar David Alexander: Photography Fred Meyer: Digital Remastering Bonnie Bramlett: Vocals, Main Performer Jimmy Hall: Vocals Mickey Thomas: Vocals Anita Ball: Vocals (Background) Barry Beckett: Organ, Piano (Electric), Clavinet, Keyboards, Piano Randall Bramblett: Saxophone, Sax (Soprano) Harrison Calloway: Horn, Horn Arrangements Ronnie Eades: Horn Ed Freeman: Conductor, String Arrangements Roger Hawkins: Drums Ricky Hirsch: Guitar, Horn David Hood: Bass Paul Hornsby: Organ, Keyboards Chuck Leavell: Piano Dianne Davidson: Vocals, Vocals (Background) Gregg Allman: Organ, Vocals Dickey Betts: Guitar Dobie Gray: Vocals
Album Review
Although Bonnie Bramlett is a good blue-eyed soul singer, and gets backing by top Muscle Shoals session musicians on this 1976 album, you need more than a good singer and a good band to make a good record. You also need interesting material, and while most of the songs presented here are good, they're mostly well-traveled soul and R&B covers. It seemed to be a holding pattern album of sorts, Bramlett opting to record half of the album with guest vocalists, including Gregg Allman, Dobie Gray, Bobby Whitlock, and Mickey Thomas (the last of whom sang lead on Elvin Bishop's huge hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" around this time). Any one or two of these songs would have been okay as album filler, but they in fact fill up almost the entire album, and they don't match the originals or come at them from noteworthy angles. An exception, perhaps, is Bob Dylan's "Forever Young," given a full mid-'7s rock-with-horns arrangement; at least it wasn't a composition that was overly familiar or often interpreted. Lady's Choice was combined with Bramlett's previous album, 1974's It's Time, on a single-CD reissue by Raven Records. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Biography
Delaney Bramlett Biography by William Ruhlmann & Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide
Although his popularity was often eclipsed by the artists he mentored, Delaney Bramlett was an accomplished guitarist and singer/songwriter whose style influenced the likes of Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale, and Duane Allman. A native of Pontotoc, MS, he served time in the U.S. Navy before moving to Los Angeles in 1959. He soon became a member of the Shindogs, the resident band on the TV show Shindig. Such a job allowed Bramlett to rub shoulders with other notable musicians, and in 1967 he met Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, a member of Ike & Tina Turner's backup group the Ikettes. The two were married within five days; they also formed a duo named Delaney & Bonnie. Delaney & Bonnie cut an album for Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T. & the MG's, but the record was not released at first. They then expanded the group (welcoming such musicians as Leon Russell into the fold) and adopted the modified name Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. This new lineup recorded Accept No Substitute in 1969, and although its sales were lukewarm, the album still endeared Delaney Bramlett's music to a number of rock icons. Eric Clapton took particular interest and invited Delaney & Bonnie & Friends to tour alongside Blind Faith in mid-1969; he then left his band and joined Bramlett's loose collective, along with such notables as George Harrison and Dave Mason. This resulted in the release of On Tour with Eric Clapton, a live album recorded during a performance at London's Fairfield Halls. Afterwards, members of the Friends proceeded to work on solo albums by Clapton and Harrison, as well as Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Delaney & Bonnie made several more albums before divorcing, although none of them fared as well as On Tour. Delaney Bramlett then released his debut solo effort, Something's Coming, in 1972, followed by Mobius Strip (1973), Giving Birth to a Song (1975), and Delaney Bramlett and Friends -- Class Reunion (1977). His studio work tapered off after the late '70s, although he returned to his craft two decades later with a handful of releases, the last of which -- A New Kind of Blues -- was issued in 2008. That year proved to be a fateful one, however, as Bramlett suffered from complications of gall bladder surgery and died on December 27th.
This Sealed LP came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of the albums. They had a chart on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of the albums. Most of the albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the records have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for the record in 1978 if you would have bought it at Phantasmagoria. Please don't confuse these prices with their current value. All Sealed LP(s) are being sold as collector's items and cannot be returned due to manufacturer's defects. It may be almost impossible to replace many of the sealed albums that I am selling. If I list an album as "New", but not sealed, it is because the album is probably an import or from a small USA record company. Back in the 70's, many imported albums were not sealed by the record companies, and the importers/distrubutors did not spend the time or money to seal them before being sent to the stores. I will not knowingly misrepresent an album as new if I have any doubts.
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