JAMES CARR:
To Love Somebody / These Ain't Raindrops
(45 rpm single)
Original release:
45 rpm single: Goldwax 340 (1969)
1. | To Love Somebody | |
2. | These Ain't Raindrops |
Duane Allman is
suspected to play on 'To Love Somebody'.
Sources:
1) Stuart Krause:
'Duane Allman: The Studio Recordings'
published in the November 2005 issue of 'Discoveries'.
(READ)
2) Randy Poe: 'Skydog - The Duane Allman Story', revised paperback edition page
278 (Backbeat Books, 2008):
James Carr
"These Ain’t Raindrops"/"To Love Somebody" (Goldwax single) 1969
The vast majority of recordings by this greatly underrated soul singer were cut
in Memphis, including the A-side of this 45. "To Love Somebody" was recorded at
Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, with Allman and Jimmy Johnson sharing guitar
duties.
3) In a 1970 telephone interview with Chris Charlesworth, published in the
November 7, 1970 issue of the UK magazine 'Melody Maker', Duane Allman told that
he worked in Muscle Shoals with [Wilson] Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Conley,
James Carr, King Curtis, Laura Nyro and Ronnie Hawkins.
(click to enlarge)
Melody Maker
November 7, 1970
https://www.duaneallman.info/abandofrenown.htm
4) On October 29, 2006 Ann
Sandlin wrote in the forum on the Allman Brothers Band website
allmanbrothersband.com
"Duane
mentioned in an interview that he recorded with James Carr which would have
been at Fame January 19, 1969 but said there was nothing recorded worth
listening to."
There is still no confirmation, however, that Duane actually plays on this track.
Both tracks are also released on 'James Carr: The
Complete Goldwax Singles' (Kent Soul CDKEND 202 (UK) (2001)
Both tracks are also released on the various artists
compilation CD 'The Complete Goldwax Singles Volume 3' (Ace Records Ltd. (UK), CDCH2 1248, 2010)
"To Love Somebody" is also released on the
compilation CD 'The Best Of James Carr' (Ace Records Ltd.
/ Kent Soul (UK), CDKENM 472, 2017)
"To Love Somebody" is also released on the
compilation LP 'The Best Of James Carr' (Ace Records Ltd.
/ Kent Soul (UK), KENT 513, 2017)