Claudine (soundtrack)

Claudine
Claudine
Soundtrack album by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Released	March 1974
Recorded	Curtom Studios; (Chicago, Illinois)
Genre	Soul
Length	30:18
Label	Buddah
Producer	Curtis Mayfield
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Curtis Mayfield chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−^[2]
Rolling Stone	(not rated)^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
5.	"Claudine Theme" (Instrumental)	4:30
6.	"Hold On"	5:17
7.	"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]
Year	Single	US	US R&B	UK^[6]
1974	"On and On"	5	2	—
1976	"Make Yours a Happy Home"	—	13	35

References

^ Hogan, Ed. Claudine review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
^ 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.
^ Holden, Stephen (June 6, 1974). "Claudine review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 405.
^ ^a ^b "US Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
^ "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 16, 2011.

External links

Claudine at Discogs
How Curtis Mayfield and Gladys Knight Created a Sound for Working-Class Black America an essay by Mark Anthony Neal at the Criterion Collection

[1] Hogan, Ed. Claudine review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 16, 2011.

[CG-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.

[rollingstone-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.

[allmusic-5] "US Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. Retrieved November 18, 2012.

[uk-6] "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 16, 2011.

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v t e Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight Merald "Bubba" Knight William Guest Edward Patten Brenda Knight Eleanor Guest Langston George
Studio albums	Everybody Needs Love Nitty Gritty If I Were Your Woman Neither One of Us All I Need Is Time Imagination I Feel a Song 2nd Anniversary The One and Only Visions All Our Love
Soundtrack albums	Claudine
Compilation albums	The Ultimate Collection
Singles	"Every Beat of My Heart" "Letter Full of Tears" "Giving Up" "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" "Everybody Needs Love" "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "The End of Our Road" "It Should Have Been Me" "I Wish It Would Rain" "The Nitty Gritty" "If I Were Your Woman" "I Don't Want to Do Wrong" "Help Me Make It Through the Night" "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" "The Look of Love" "Midnight Train to Georgia" "I've Got to Use My Imagination" "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "On and On" "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" "Save the Overtime (For Me)" "Hero" "Love Overboard" "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind"
Related topics	Discography Aaliyah Barry Hankerson

v t e Curtis Mayfield
Albums	Curtis (1970) Roots (1971) Back to the World (1973) Sweet Exorcist (1974) Got to Find a Way (1974) There's No Place Like America Today (1975) Give, Get, Take and Have (1976) Never Say You Can't Survive (1977) Do It All Night (1978) Heartbeat (1979) Something to Believe In (1980) Love Is the Place (1981) Honesty (1982) We Come in Peace with a Message of Love (1985) Take It to the Streets (1990) New World Order (1996)
Live albums	Curtis/Live! (1971) Curtis in Chicago (1973) Live in Europe (1987) Live at Ronnie Scott's (1988)
Soundtracks	Super Fly (1972) Claudine (1974) Let's Do It Again (1975) Sparkle (1976) A Piece of the Action (1977) Short Eyes (1977) The Return of Superfly (1990)
Singles	"(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" "Move On Up" "Freddie's Dead" "Superfly" "She Don't Let Nobody (But Me)"
Related articles	The Impressions Curtom Records Discography People Get Ready – A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield

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