GENE McDANIELS

Hallo Forum!
Hier eine Single-Diskographie für unseren Raum bis 1962:
LONDON
07 61....DL 20 400....GENE McDANIELS A Hundred Pounds Of Clay/Take A Chance On Love (LIBERTY 55308)
10 61....DL 20 445....GENE McDANIELS A Tear/She's Come Back (LIBERTY 55344)
01 62....DL 20 478....GENE McDANIELS with the Johnny Mann Singers Tower Of Strenght/The Secret (LIBERTY 55371)
LIBERTY
10 62....L 22 282....BOBBY VEE Punish Her (LIB 10048 A)/GENE MCDANIELS With The Johnny Mann Singers Point Of No Return (LIB 10048 B) (LIBERTY 55479/55480)

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Gerd

Hallo zusammen,

zusätzlich zu Gerd's Beitrag die Story von Gene McDaniels aus wikipedia und 2 Liberty Singles. Fehlen uns noch Scans der beiden restlichen London Singles!

Gruß

Hardi



wikipedia:

Gene McDaniels (born Eugene Booker McDaniels, February 12, 1935, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.

McDaniels grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and went on to have six Top 40 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The two that went into the Top 5 were 1961's "Tower of Strength" (#5 on the pop chart) and "A Hundred Pounds of Clay," the latter of which reached #3 on the pop chart, and sold over one million records, earning gold disc status.[1]

In the late 1960s, McDaniels turned his attention to a more black consciousness form, and his best-known song in this genre was "Compared to What," a jazz-soul protest song made famous (and into a hit) by Les McCann and Eddie Harris on their album, Swiss Movement, and also covered by Roberta Flack. McDaniels also attained the top spot on the chart as a songwriter. In 1974, Roberta Flack reached #1 with McDaniels' "Feel Like Makin' Love." (This is not to be confused with the Bad Company song of the same name.)

Other songs that McDaniels recorded included "Point Of No Return" and "Spanish Lace." In the early 1970s, McDaniels recorded on the Atlantic label, which released the McDaniels albums, Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse and Outlaw.

In the 1980s, Eugene McDaniels recorded an album with percussionist Terry Silverlight, which was never released, up until 2009, as plans are in the works for a digital release at the end of 2009.

In 2005, Eugene McDaniels released "Screams & Whispers" under his own label.

In 2009, Eugene McDaniels is soon to release a new album, "Evolution's Child" which features his lyrics, and a number of songs composed or arranged with pianist Ted Brancato. Some of the songs feature jazz musician Ron Carter on concert bass.

McDaniel's "Jagger the Dagger" was featured on the Tribe Vibes breakbeat compilation album, after it had been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.

McDaniels also appeared in films. They included the 1962 film, It's Trad, Dad!, (released in the United States as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm), which was directed by Richard Lester. He also appeared in 1963's The Young Swingers. McDaniels is briefly seen singing in the choir in the 1974 Sidney Poitier-Bill Cosby film, Uptown Saturday Night.

Gene McDaniels

Liberty L 22 334

A1: Spanish Lace (Pomus - Shuman) ...with The Johnny Mann Singers
B1: Golden Earrings (Livingston - Evans - Young)

Gene McDaniels

London DL 20 478

A1: Tower Of Strength (Hilliard - Bachrach)
B1: The Secret (Lubin - Roth)

GENE MC DANIELS

Gene ist nun leider auch schon so was von tot: geboren als Eugene Booker McDaniels
am 12. Februar 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri, verstarb er am 29. Juli 2011 in seinem Haus
in Maine. RIP