Saved (LaVern Baker album)

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Saved
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Studio album by
LaVern Baker
Released1961 (1961)
Recorded
  • December 4, 1959 ("Must I Cry Again", "Eternally")
  • December 11, 1959 ("Manana", "Shadows of Love", "Shake a Hand")
  • February 26, 1960 ("Wheel of Fortune", "Senor Big and Fine")
StudioNew York City, New York, United States
Genre
Length27:51
LanguageEnglish
Label Atlantic
LaVern Baker chronology
Blues Ballads
(1959)		Saved
(1961)		 Richard Rodgers’ No Strings. An After‐Theatre Version
(1962)

Saved is the sixth studio album by American rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker and her second including Gospel music.

Contents

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Steve Leggett writing that this "is arguably her greatest album" and that Baker "had every bit as much talent" and more famous singers like Etta James or James Brown, "and all of it is on display in this fiery collection". [1]

The title track was the first recording of the Leiber and Stoller song to chart, [2] reaching 17 on the R&B charts and 37 on the pop charts. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Saved" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) – 2:34
  2. "For Love of You" (LaVern Baker and Fred Jay) – 2:12
  3. "Manana" (Dave Barbour and Peggy Lee) – 2:07
  4. "My Time Will Come" (Brook Benton and Bobby Stevenson) – 2:25
  5. "Shadows of Love" (Otis Blackwell) – 2:18
  6. "Must I Cry Again" (Lincoln Chase, Lloyd Pemberton, and Jerry Valentine) – 2:32
  7. "Bumble Bee" (Leroy Fullylove) – 2:23
  8. "Shake a Hand" (Joe Morris) – 2:49
  9. "Don Juan" (Leiber and Stoller) – 2:21
  10. "Wheel of Fortune" (Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss) – 1:59
  11. "Senor Big and Fine" (Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman) – 2:15
  12. "Eternally" (Charlie Chaplin and Geoffrey Parsons) – 1:56

Compact disc bonus tracks

  2. "No Love So True" – 2:18
  3. "Hey Memphis" – 2:28
  4. "Loads of Love" – 2:23
  5. "You Don't Tell Me" – 2:53
  6. "Eager Beaver" – 2:08
  7. "Itty Bitty Girl" – 2:17

Personnel

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Leggett, Steve (n.d.). "LaVern Baker – Saved". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  2. ↑ Duffett, Mark (February 23, 2018). "The Countdown". Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 153. ISBN   9781442248052.
  3. ↑ Reed, Teresa L. (2003). "3: Elder Eatmore and Deacon Jones". The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music. University Press of Kentucky. p. 63. ISBN   9780813127934.
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