From the MCRFB news archives:
Billboard Magazine: SOUL SAUCE
Best New Record of the Week: “Baby Scratch My Back”
Artist: Clarence Carter
Label: Atlantic Records
By ED OCHS
Aretha Franklin’s next studio LP, due in January, offers up “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” “Young, Gifted And Black,” a new version of “Border Song,” and “Rock Steady,” of course. We like Betty Wright’s “Clean Up Woman,” on Alston Records, but knocking hard on the heels of Aretha, Tyrone Davis, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway are Clarence Carter’s “Scratch My Back,” Dee Dee Warwick’s “Everybody’s Got To Believe In Somebody” (a Hayes-Porter number), Electric Express’ “Where Are You Coming From” and King Floyd’s “Let Me See You Do That Thing.” And Quiet Fire is Roberta Flack’s forthcoming new LP…. United Artists is alive with War’s All Day Music LP, Ike and Tina Turner’s Nuff Said and Bobby Womack’s Communication albums. Ike and Tina play the Beacon, 74th Street and Broadway, November 27 and 28, Lonnie Jordan and Howard Scott of War produced the West Coast Revival’s “Stop, Think, Get It Together” for UA, and Jimmy Briggs’ “You Were Almost Mine” single is being heard from…. New Undisputed Truth: “You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth,” from their new Gordy LP, Face To Face…. Tired of being alone? Sly Johnson says hello to Hi Records, with “Memphis,” in the smoke of Al Green’s long-lasting million seller. Best Of Willie Mitchell, a double-decker LP, keeps the heat on Hi…. Next James Brown’s new single, “I’m A Greedy Man,” on Polydor…. The MG’s, minus Booker T., are back in action with “Jamaica This Morning” on Stax…. Near gold is the Chi-lite’s “Have You Seen Her.” At least seven covers of the smash took the wraps off the Chi-Lites’ original, said Brunswick’s Pete Garris, who didn’t want to slow the album’s push toward the half-million mark by parting with the big cut. “We had 40, 000 copies of the single sitting on the floor,” said Garris, “but now the album is picking up again and with the singles we could hit over 3.5 million pieces.” In a holding pattern is the group’s “I Want To Pay You Back” single, and that’s the good news….
Album Happenings: B.B. King, In London (ABC); Santana, The New Santana (Columbia); Buddy Miles, Live (Mercury); Jimi Hendrix, Rainbow Bridge (Reprise); Quincy Jones, Smackwater Jack (A&M); Dennis Cofey, Evolution (Sussex); Al Green, Gets Next To You (Hi); Ike & Tina Turner, ‘Nuff Said (United Artists); War, All Day Music (United Artists) Bobby Womack, Communications (United Artists); Curtis Mayfield, Roots (Curtom); Dick Gregory, At Kent State (Poppy); Beginning Of The End, Funky Nausau (Alston); Young-Holt Unlimited, Born Again (Cotillion); Ray Charles, All-Time Great Performances (ABC); Lucky Peterson, Our Future (Today); Roland Kirk, Best Of (Atlantic); Eric Mercury, Funk Rock (Enterprise); Yusef Lateef, Best Of (Atlantic); Percy Mayfield, Blues And Then Some (RCA)…. Coming soon: Honey Cone, Soulful Tapestry on Hot Wax…. And due from Blue Note are LP’s from Lou Donaldson, Bobby Hutcherson, Gene Harris & the Three Sounds, Rueben Wilson, Richard (Grooves) Holmes.… Soul Sauce, and as Uptight Productions president Marvin Figgins might ask, so which of these Soul Sauce albums will you be listening to today? END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; November 6, 1971).
