Pass It On

Remastered Curtis Mayfield-Produced ’70s Staples. Bonus Tracks include all Single Edits. Expanded packaging with new liner notes from author, Rob Bowman. Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Rock & Roll and Gospel Hall of Fame inductees, The Staple Singers are an American musical treasure. In the ’50s they were among the greatest of the post-war gospel groups. The ’60s found them recording for a variety of labels like Vee-Jay, Riverside, Epic, and ultimately Stax, pioneering the “soul folk” sound. By the end of the decade, they were becoming the soul music superstars they’re most widely known as now. During the ’70s, they placed 13 singles on the U.S. Pop Chart and 20 on the U.S. R&B Chart. Besides recording, touring and chasing songs up the charts, the group also found time to not only appear in music-related motion pictures like Wattstax (1972) and The Bands’ The Last Waltz (1976), but they also contributed to the Sidney Poitier-directed film soundtrack, Let’s Do It Again with music produced by Curtis Mayfield. This, their first post-Stax effort, sent the title track, “Let’s Do It Again,” to the number one spot on both the Pop and R&B charts. Though the hits slowed after the mid-’70s, they did have a number 5 dance chart hit with a cover of the Talking Heads song, “Slippery People” in 1984. Mavis Staples had been releasing solo albums dating back to 1969’s self-titled effort on Stax, but started to pick up the release tempo and carry for family business forward

Tracks

1~1~ The Real Thing Inside Of Me/Party
1~2~ Take Your Own Time
1~3~ Sweeter Than The Sweet
1~4~ Love Me, Love Me, Love Me
1~5~ Pass It On
1~6~ Making Love
1~7~ Take This Love Of Mine
1~8~ Precious, Precious

Details

Format: CD
Artist: The Staples
Release Date: 05 June 2020
Genre: Soul
Label: ADA
Distributor: Inertia Music