Artist of the Week revisits the career of Carla Thomas. Carla Venita Thomas was born 21 December 21 1942. She is one of three daughters of soul artist Rufus Thomas and her first h

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One of my faves by Carla, The Puppet

Suz

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Love this, allways try to play it.

one of my favs by her..never gets old

Always loved this live version.

https://youtu.be/KjNx0_sAyVQ

Great and on a UK 45 as well

BH

Her Hidden Gems CD from the early 90's was packed with crackers and all previously un-released and just shows that the quality of the rest of her Stax output was top notch. My fave's on this apart from I'll Never Stop Loving You are: My Man Believes In Me, It |Ain't An Easy Thing, Good Man & Goodbye My Love.

think this needs a mention,a great lp.

ricky

I always thought Carla Thomas was very underrated.

These are my favourites...

'Love Means You Never Have To Say You're Sorry'

'Pick Up The Pieces'

'I Play For Keeps'

'Gee Whiz! (Look At His Eyes)'

'I'll Never Stop Loving You'

Not to forget these gems...

'Baby'

'What A Fool I've Been'

'I May Not Be All You Want'

'When Tomorrow Comes'

'I've Fallen In Love With You'

'Sugar'

'I Like What You're Doing To Me'

'I'm Getting Closer To You'

'Didn't We Almost Make It'

That's enough for now.

These threads remind you how much you really like an artist.

Paul

I've always liked this early Stax recording

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2EYk4cFQwY

Always loved this live version.

I remember posting this in the Record of the Day section and saying what a shame they slowed the recorded version down...The actual record is lovely in it's own right, but Would have been a fantastic Northern record recorded properly at this tempo!

Use to have the Memphis Queen album some years back. Remember one of the tracks These memories superb song, can anybody post it up Cheers Pete.

Love this, allways try to play it.

Is this track anything to do with Don Davis ( I need my baby riff etc.)

bring it home to you is nice

and also-i've got no time to lose is another nice one by Carla

Here you go Pete

Bri

Is this track anything to do with Don Davis ( I need my baby riff etc.)

Yep, credited to Davis / Mancha

Cheers Bri top sound nice to hear this again .

Precious Memories , A wonderful piece of soul.

Possibly my favourite track on the Detroit influenced Lp.

Here's a duet from another underrated LP.

From the duets album, "Boy Meets Girl"

Bout time Adey put out "let's cross over again, again"

Mick

a more soulful lp, for easy listening,nothing to shout about.

nowhere near her best imo.

ricky.

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Artist of the Week revisits the career of Carla Thomas.

 

 

 

 

Enjoy. Another amazing performance from 2017.

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Why this was unreleased baffles me tremendous record