The Staple Swingers

The Staple Swingers
Studio album by The Staple Singers
Released 1971
Recorded 1970-1971 at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Genre Soul
Length 45:06
Label Stax
Producer Al Bell
The Staple Singers chronology
We'll Get Over
(1970)
The Staple Swingers
(1971)
Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
(1972)

The Staple Swingers is a 1971 soul album by the Staple Singers.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Robert ChristgauB [2]

This would be The Staple Singers first album to be produced by Al Bell and recorded in Muscle Shoals. Other changes saw brother Pervis Staples be replaced by sister Yvonne Staples prior to the recording of this album. Released in 1971, this album would chart at. number nine on the Billboard Top Soul Albums charts.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."This Is a Perfect World"  Bettye Crutcher, Mack Rice, Tommy Tate4:20
2."What's Your Thing"  Mack Rice4:21
3."You've Got to Earn It"  Smokey Robinson, Cornelius Grant3:28
4."You're Gonna Make Me Cry"  Deadric Malone5:04
5."Little Boy"  Carson Whitsett3:25
6."How Do You Move a Mountain"  Myrna March, Adam Levy2:34
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Almost"  Harold Thomas, Leroy Mason4:16
8."I'm a Lover"  James Mabone, Charles Bevel3:43
9."Love Is Plentiful"  Bettye Crutcher, Bobby Manuel2:30
10."Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)"  Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom2:58
11."I Like the Things About You"  Martha Stubb, Roebuck "Pops" Staples3:21
12."Give a Hand, Take a Hand"  Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb3:55

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1971) Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums[3] 117
Billboard Top Soul Albums[3] 9

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[4]
US
Pop
US
Soul
1970 "Love Is Plentiful" - 31
1971 "Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)" 27 6
"You've Got to Earn It" 97 11

References

  1. Bowman, Rob. The Staple Singers: The Staple Swingers > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 07 October 2011.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "The Staple Swingers > review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  3. 1 2 "The Staple Singers US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  4. "The Staple Singers US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.