Claudine (soundtrack)

Claudine
Soundtrack album by
Gladys Knight & the Pips
ReleasedMarch 1974
RecordedCurtom
(Chicago, Illinois)
GenreSoul
Length30:18
LabelBuddah
ProducerCurtis Mayfield
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Imagination
(1973)		 Claudine
(1974)		 I Feel a Song
(1974)
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Curtis in Chicago
(1973)		 Claudine
(1974)		 Sweet Exorcist
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[2]
Rolling Stone(not rated)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStar[4]

Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture Claudine, starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label.

The first single release, "On and On", reached number 2 on the R&B chart and number5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A second single, "Make Yours a Happy Home", was released two years later in 1976 and was a moderate hit, peaking at number 13 R&B and number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. The album also included one instrumental, "Claudine Theme". The album was also their third of five R&B albums chart-toppers. Also included is a cover of Mayfield's "The Makings of You".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Curtis Mayfield.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Mr. Welfare Man"5:30
2."To Be Invisible"3:45
3."On and On"3:44
4."The Makings of You"2:24
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Claudine Theme" (Instrumental)4:30
2."Hold On"5:17
3."Make Yours a Happy Home"4:35

Personnel

  • Rich Tufo – arranger
  • Roger Anfinsen – engineer
  • Milton Sincoff – creative packaging director
  • Joseph "Lucky" Scott – bass
  • Curtis Mayfield, Phil Upchurch – guitars
  • Quentin Joseph – drums
  • Henry Gibson – congas
  • Rich Tufo – keyboards, organ

Charts

Chart (1974) Peak
[5]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 35
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 1
Singles
Year Single Chart positions[5]
US US
R&B		 UK[6]
1974 "On and On" 5 2 —
1976 "Make Yours a Happy Home" — 13 35

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hogan, Ed. Claudine review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ Holden, Stephen (June 6, 1974). "Claudine review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 405.
  5. 1 2 "US Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
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