• LP


Choker Campbell & The Super Sounds

  • Cat No: LAT1005
  • updated:2023-10-11

Format

LP 3890 JPY

A 1975 album by CARLA WHITNEY, originally released by the Canadian label ATTIC, known for its "Rare Soul" albums. An official reissue for RSD 2021. It’s bursting with positive energy.

An album by the little-known singer CARLA WHITNEY, recorded during her time in Canada by CHOKER CAMPBELL—a renowned saxophonist known for his work with MOTOWN who led the touring bands for The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder. It even includes a cover of “Gimme Shelter”! (Original Japanese text by Saito)

Carla Whitney (with Choker Campbell and the Super Sounds), a relatively unknown soul gem that has flown under the radar since its release 46 years ago. Backed by Motown royalty Choker Campbell, the velvet-throated Whitney is like Aretha, Marlena Shaw and Vicki Anderson all rolled into one, flitting from cottony crooners to full-out funk stormers.

Campbell was the leader of Motown’s live band, the saxophonist and conductor who kept any number of Motortown Revue shows driving along. A respected leader of men, and later a talented producer. Somehow in 1975 the nearly 60-year-old Campbell managed to find his way to Canada, where he hooked up with the little-known but dyno-voiced Carla Whitney in Toronto, producing the only LP she would ever make and issuing it on the then-obscure Attic label.

For the first time since its original release Attic are reissuing the album for RSD 2021, at a lot cheaper price than the original copies, if you can find one (£500!) 180g heavyweight vinyl.

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