Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Linda Clifford - If My Friends Could See Me Now (1978) [1996, Remastered Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 11 Jan 2021 21:29:31

"If My Friends Could See Me Now" is the 2nd studio album recorded by American singer Linda Clifford, released in 1978 on the Curtom label. The album peaked at #9 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached #22 on the Billboard 200. The album features a disco-styled cover version of the title track, which peaked at #68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and #54 on the Billboard Hot 100. Another single, "Runaway Love", also charted at #3 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and #76 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both tracks, along with the track "Gypsy Lady" peaked at #1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart.

~Wikipedia

For Linda Clifford's second album, producers Gil Askey and Curtis Mayfield wisely left behind the overabundance of cover tunes that weighted down her debut outing to concentrate on original material. The result is If My Friends Could See Me Now, the opus that earned Clifford her disco diva status. The first side of the album represents her finest recorded work. It starts with a bang via the title track, which transforms this classic show tune from Sweet Charity into a driving slice of orchestrated disco. It provides an ideal vehicle for Clifford's brassy vocal persona and is further sweetened by expert call and response support from the Jones Girls on backup vocals. From there, the album downshifts into a gentler mood with "You Are, You Are," a Curtis Mayfield song that combines a lovely mid-tempo groove with some spacy synthesizer effects and romantic-devotion lyrics that are given emotional heft by Clifford's vocal conviction. The coup de grâce is provided by "Runaway Love," a funky, Latin-accented dressing down of an unfaithful lover that intersperses its silky rhythms with spoken word bits in a Millie Jackson-styled feminist vein. Unfortunately, the second side doesn't hold up quite as well. The flamenco-flavored "Broadway Gypsy Lady" gets the toes tapping, but the other tunes feel like filler: they are solidly crafted and professionally performed, but lack the distinctive lyrical and musical hooks that made the first side such a treat. Despite this unevenness, If My Friends Could See Me Now is listenable all the way through and remains Clifford's shining hour on record.

~Review by Craig Lytle

Release of the album: 1978 [LP Curtom, Cat.# CUK 5021, USA]
Release of this CD: 1996, February, 2 [CD Curtom Records/Charly Records (UK), Cat.# CPCD 8158 / UPC: 075596055826]
℗ 1978 Curtom Records Inc., © 1996 Charly Records (UK) Ltd.
Made in the E.U.

Credits:

Arranged By – Gil Askey
Art Direction, Design – Jim Schubert
Backing Vocals – The Jones Girls (Shirley, Brenda & Valerie)
Bass – Keni Burke
Contractor [Strings, Horns] – Sol Bobrov
Design, Art Direction – Jim Schubert
Drums – Donnell Hagan
Engineer – Fred Breitberg, Roger Anfinsen
Guitar – Curtis Mayfield, Ronnie Vann, William Ross Traut
Keyboards – Calvin Bridges, Eric Hackett, Rich Tufo
Photography By – Hauser / D'Orio
Producers – Curtis Mayfield (tracks: 2, 4, 7), Gil Askey (tracks: 1, 3, 5 to 7)
Synthesizer – Eric Hackett

Tracklist:

01. If My Friends Could See Me Now (08:01)
(C. Coleman, D. Fields)
02. You Are, You Are (05:19)
(C. Mayfield)
03. Runaway Love (07:07)
(G. Askey)
04. Broadway Gypsy Lady (03:44)
(C. Mayfield)
05. I Feel Like Falling In Love Again (05:06)
(C. Wurzbach)
06. Please Darling, Don't Say Goodbye (04:38)
(G. Askey, L. Clifford)
07. Gypsy Lady (05:43)
(C. Mayfield, G. Askey)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 26. September 2015, 18:20

Linda Clifford / If My Friends Could See Me Now

Used drive : PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208D Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 8:01.02 | 0 | 36076
2 | 8:01.02 | 5:19.25 | 36077 | 60026
3 | 13:20.27 | 7:07.18 | 60027 | 92069
4 | 20:27.45 | 3:43.55 | 92070 | 108849
5 | 24:11.25 | 5:05.67 | 108850 | 131791
6 | 29:17.17 | 4:37.63 | 131792 | 152629
7 | 33:55.05 | 5:43.00 | 152630 | 178354

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\BlondStyle\Linda Clifford - If My Friends Could See Me Now.wav

Peak level 92.3 %
Extraction speed 4.1 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 6F1F4D99
Copy CRC 6F1F4D99
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [9278D051] (AR v1)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CDE808BD] (AR v1)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [B32A223A] (AR v1)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [F2262184] (AR v1)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [85CEAFD4] (AR v1)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [5BDBE01F] (AR v1)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [29C932FE] (AR v1)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.3

[CTDB TOCID: Kqx79axHx9IGofR04Lg_Dwoexa8-] found, Submit result: Kqx79axHx9IGofR04Lg_Dwoexa8- has been confirmed
[6fb343b5] (1/1) Accurately ripped

==== Log checksum 9FD6AC4B6D8DE7732F7E5C61E16E85446A86792C2198E2B61C5A857B387FC6AF ====

Dynamic Range Meter log

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Linda Clifford / If My Friends Could See Me Now
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR14 -1.09 dB -17.01 dB 8:01 01-If My Friends Could See Me Now
DR14 -0.88 dB -16.83 dB 5:19 02-You Are, You Are
DR16 -0.87 dB -19.49 dB 7:07 03-Runaway Love
DR14 -0.69 dB -18.41 dB 3:44 04-Broadway Gypsy Lady
DR14 -0.84 dB -16.73 dB 5:06 05-I Feel Like Falling In Love Again
DR15 -1.07 dB -20.15 dB 4:38 06-Please Darling, Don't Say Goodbye
DR15 -1.42 dB -18.31 dB 5:43 07-Gypsy Lady
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR15

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 815 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

♫~Welcome To My Blog~♫

password: BlondStyle

Flac
Artwork

90s CD-Rip RnB 1978 Soul Disco R&B Lossless FLAC Funk lossless Soul/Funk