You Don\u2019t Know Nothing About Love: The Loma\/Atlantic Recordings 1967-1972 <\/i>by Carl Hall is a soulful cry from the past. <\/p>\n
Carl Hall, who died in 1999, had a voice in a million yet failed to gain any recording success or reach any American music chart. His major notoriety came as an actor in such Broadway productions as The Wiz <\/i>and Truly Blessed: A Musical Celebration Of Mahalia Jackson <\/i>and the feature film Hair.<\/i><\/p>\n
He began his career in the 1950s as a member of Raspberry Gospel Group. While his acting career began in the early 1960s, he recorded unsuccessfully for the Mercury label. He came under the guidance of producer James Ragovoy from 1967-1972 and released three singles for the Loma and Atlantic labels. Those six sides have now been combined with 13 unreleased tracks to form this new album.<\/p>\n
His 1967 Loma single \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Nothing About Love\u201d was his most commercial recording but its intensity may have kept it off mainstream radio. The previously unreleased\u00a0 \u201dJust Like I Told You\u201d has a wonderful groove to it, while \u201cIt Was You (That I Needed)\u201d is a ballad that rivals Gene Pitney at his sonic best. There is a stripped-down demo of \u201cDance Dance Dance\u201d that looks back to his gospel roots with just a piano, tambourine, and vocal group in support.<\/p>\n
Hall could also cover other artists\u2019 hits and take them in unusual directions. He transforms the Jefferson Airplanes \u201cSomebody To Love\u201d into a funky masterpiece complete with brass and strings. His vocal on \u201cTime Is One My Side\u201d outshines Mick Jagger in its gritty intensity. His voice soars into the stratosphere on the Beatles \u201cThe Long And Winding Road.\u201d Possibly the best example of his voice is the demo of \u201cWhat Kind Of Fool Am I,\u201d where his only backing is a simple piano.<\/p>\n
The question remains as to why Hall never received any commercial success during his lifetime, as his releases were the equal of many of his contemporaries. It may have been that he never really settled into a consistent vocal style or that his voice was just too dramatic for radio airplay at the time. Also, Atlantic had a large number of artists that were more important to their success and Loma was on its last legs. <\/p>\n
The music of Carl Hall has been out of print or never issued for decades. His voice was unique in soul music. You Don\u2019t Know Nothing About Love: The Lomax\/Atlantic Recordings 1967-1972 <\/i>welcomes back music that should be appreciated by anyone interested in the soul music of the soul era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9669],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44189","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-carl-hall","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44189"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44189"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}