Walter Jackson-I Want To Come Back As A Song-LP-FLAC-1977-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Walter Jackson
     Title   | I Want To Come Back As A Song
     Genre   | Soul                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 38:44
     Label   | Chi Town Sounds                      Store   | 1977
     Catalog | CH-LA733-G                           Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 2778 kbps                            Size    | 809.42 MB
     Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     A1. Baby, I Love Your Way                                       3:44
     A2. Everything Must Change                                      5:17
     A3. Gotta Find Me An Angel                                      3:34
     A4. If You Walked Away                                          3:14
     A5. I Want To Come Back As A Song                               4:17
     B1. Stay A While With Me                                        4:08
     B2. It's All Over                                               3:40
     B3. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word                          3:24
     B4. What Would You Do                                           3:24
     B5. I've Never Been To Me                                       4:02
 Notes  
     Walter Jackson was '60s Chicago soul at its sweetest and, occasionally,
     most mainstream. In the mid-'60s, he had a brace of solid R&B hits -
     "Suddenly I'm All Alone," "It's an Uphill Climb (To the Bottom)," "Speak
     Her Name," "Welcome Home," "A Corner in the Sun" - without ever rising
     higher than the lower reaches of the Top 100. Recording for the OKeh
     stable, which was home to the top Chi-Town soul talent, he benefited for a
     time from the production services of local masters Carl Davis and Curtis
     Mayfield, who handled the Impressions, Major Lance, Gene Chandler, and
     others.
     His sides employed similar punchy brass and strings, but in a smoother,
     more urbane fashion; Jackson was also comfortable with occasional outings
     into pure supper-club pop with nary a trace of R&B. Jackson had already
     recorded for Columbia (and unsuccessfully auditioned for Motown) when OKeh
     A&R director Davis saw him at a Detroit piano bar in 1962. Stricken with
     polio as a young boy, Jackson had never let his disability get in the way
     of his musical ambitions, performing on crutches. Impressed with his
     commanding voice, Carl Davis thought of Walter as a Nat King Cole type of
     singer, and procured material for Jackson from Mayfield, Van McCoy, Chip
     Taylor, and other top-notch songwriters.
     Despite the obvious pop crossover potential of Jackson's recordings, he
     remained obscure to white listeners. During the latter part of his stay
     with OKeh, he was reassigned from Davis' stable to producer Ted Cooper.
     Jackson had a few hits with Cooper, but there was little success after the
     late '60s, although he recorded for a few more labels before dying of a
     cerebral hemorrhage in 1983.
     Chi Sound Records originally issued this set of songs in 1977, it was
     Jackson's second and final LP for the label. On "I Want To Come Back As A
     Song", Jackson sounds better than ever. It features Jackson's update of
     "It's All Over," which he first recorded on Okeh Records, and his take of
     Joe Cobb and Van McCoy's "Stay Awhile With Me." Jackson's rendition of
     Aretha Franklin's "(Gotta Find Me An) Angel," written by Carolyn Franklin
     (her sister) and Sonny Sanders, is as heartwarming as the original.
     Bobby Miller, noted for his Dells productions, wrote and produced the title
     track of this well-rounded albeit brief (ten songs) collection that
     showcases Walter Jackson's inimitable baritone.

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