Jackie (Jackie DeShannon album)

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Studio album by
Jackie DeShannon
Released1972
Studio
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Label Atlantic
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Jackie DeShannon chronology
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(1971)		Jackie
(1972)		 Your Baby Is a Lady
(1974)

Jackie is an album by American pop singer and songwriter Jackie DeShannon, released in 1972 by Atlantic Records. [1] It was recorded in Memphis with producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin. [2]

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The album was not commercially successful, charting for two weeks on the Billboard Top LPs with a peak position of 196, [3] but critics have generally appraised it favorably. In 2003, it was reissued under the title Jackie...Plus, featuring 10 additional songs previously unavailable on any album. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide B [5]
Creem B+ [6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Herald & Review 10/10 [4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Jackie was met with positive reviews. Writing for Rolling Stone in August 1972, Stephen Holden said, "I've always liked Jackie DeShannon's singing — a gently throat-catching but never maudlin style — though on record after record her talent seemed too often to be thrown away on inferior songs with shlock arrangements. Now for the first time the full range of her abilities is shown to maximum effect … what is so satisfying about her singing is the tension she accumulates by always just holding back the full wallop." [9]

Reviewing for Creem in October 1972, Robert Christgau credited Wexler for performing another "conversion job on a soulful white female pop singer", similar what he had done for Dusty Springfield on her 1969 album Dusty in Memphis . "Despite a couple of humdrum country soul songs on the first side", Christgau highlighted DeShannon's original compositions – "Vanilla O'Lay" and "Anna Karina" – as well as her cover of the 1971 Alice Stuart song "Full Time Woman". [6] He later tempered his enthusiasm for the record, however, writing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) that Wexler's attempt at modernizing DeShannon nearly succeeded. While finding the fashionable cover songs relatively inessential, he believed DeShannon was compelled to sing better on the more rhythmic productions and that her own written songs remain the LP's essential performances. [5]

AllMusic's Joe Viglione later said Jackie generally plays in the "adult contemporary folk" genre and, while Wexler, Mardin, and Dowd keep DeShannon in a relatively restrained musical space, "her voice is in great shape, and the music is created with loving care, making for a satisfying chapter in the singer's impressive body of work." [2] Herald & Review entertainment editor Tim Cain deemed the record "perfect" and argued that DeShannon has been "tragically underrated". [4] In 2019, it was included in Rolling Stone's list of "20 R&B Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s You Never Heard". In an accompanying essay, Gavin Edwards said Atlantic's repeated attempt to "take an accomplished pop chanteuse and let her make a lush Southern soul album" may not have had the commercial impact of Dusty in Memphis, "but it was almost as stunning." [9]

Track listing

  1. "Paradise" (John Prine)
  2. "Heavy Burdens Me Down" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
  3. "Brand New Start" (John Blakely, Tom Donahue)
  4. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (Neil Young)
  5. "Laid Back Days" (Jackie DeShannon)
  6. "Full Time Woman" (Alice Stuart)
  7. "Vanilla 'Olay" (DeShannon)
  8. "Would You Like to Learn to Dance?" (Steve Goodman)
  9. "I Won't Try to Put Chains on Your Soul" (Mary Unobsky, Donna Weiss)
  10. "I Wanna Roo You" (Van Morrison)
  11. "Peaceful in My Soul" (DeShannon)
  12. "Anna Karina" (DeShannon)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1972)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [3] 196

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard - 24 Jun 1972 - Page 56 JACKIE DeSHANNON- Jackie. Atlantic SD 7231 In her move to Atlantic, Miss DeShannon comes up with a powerhouse commercial package that can't miss making an impact on the chart. Spotlighting her current chart hit "Vanilla Olay," she also offers strong cuts on John Prine's "Paradise," Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," and Steve Goodman's "Would You Like to Learn to Dance." Van Morrison's "I Wanna Roo You," and her own "Anna Karina" are also highlights.
  2. 1 2 3 Viglione, Joe (n.d.). "Jackie - Jackie DeShannon". AllMusic . Retrieved February 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Jackie DeShannon Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Cain, Tim (July 12, 2013). "Tim Cain's 8 'perfect' albums". Herald & Review . Retrieved February 26, 2020.
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  6. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (October 1972). "The Christgau Consumer Guide". Creem . Retrieved February 26, 2020.
  7. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 637. ISBN   978-0857125958.
  8. ↑ DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 193. ISBN   0679737294.
  9. 1 2 Edwards, Gavin (August 30, 2019). "20 R&B Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s You Never Heard". Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 26, 2020.
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