MERRY CLAYTON Gimme Shelter NM UK LP Northern Soul Gospel Funk Rolling Stones

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MERRY CLAYTON - Gimme Shelter NM ORIGINAL UK LP
Original UK pressing on the A&M records / Ode label (AMLS 995) from 1970.

Condition:
The fully laminated sleeve is in EX condition and the record is in NEAR MINT condition. 

Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer and an actress. She provided a number of back-up vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter." Merry is featured in 20 Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary about background singers and their contributions to the music industry.

Born in Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana, Clayton began her recording career in 1962 at the age of 14, singing "Who Can I Count On? (When I Can't Count on You)" as a duet with Bobby Darin on his album "You're the Reason I'm Living". In 1963 she recorded the first version of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", the same year that Betty Everett's version reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Early in her career Merry performed with Ray Charles (as one of the Raelettes), Pearl Bailey, Phil Ochs, Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, Joe Cocker, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and on several tracks from Neil Young's debut album.

Clayton is best known for her 1969 duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter", though on some releases her name is misspelled as "Mary". The Stones had asked Bonnie Bramlett to sing on the song, but Bramlett's husband, Delaney, refused to let her perform with the Stones. Clayton also sang backing vocals on Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama".

In 1970, Clayton recorded her own version of "Gimme Shelter," and it became the title track of her debut solo album released that year. Her version would be the first of five singles under her name to crack the Billboard Hot 100. That same year she performed a live version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for the soundtrack for Robert Altman film Brewster McCloud and also contributed vocals to Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's film Performance. In 1971 she co-wrote the song "Sho' Nuff" about her mother. She starred as the original Acid Queen in the first London production of The Who's Tommy in 1972. In 1973, she featured prominently on Ringo Starr's "Oh My My", which reached Billboard's Top 10 the following year.

In the mid 1970s, Clayton sang on The Blackbyrds' R&B hit "Rock Creek Park" and continued to release solo albums throughout the next decade, notching several minor R&B singles.

Tracks Are :
Side One
Country Road
Tell All The People
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Gimme Shelter
I've Got Life

Side Two
Here Come Those Heartaches Again
Forget It I Got It
You've Been Acting Strange
I Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Away
Good Girls

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