Sealed LP: Bonnie Bramlett: Lady's Choice

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Bonnie Bramlett

Lady's Choice

FACTORY SEALED LP

Format: Sealed Album

Country: U.S.A.

Record Company & Release Number: Capricorn: CP 0169

Original release date: 1976

Bar Code: NONE

Condition of the cover: Mint

Condition of this sealed album: Sealed - Assumed Mint

My inventory number: 209116C

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds, 2 ounces

Notes:

This Sealed Album came from a record store in Allentown, Pennsylvania called "Phantasmagoria" which went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory several years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.

Since this Sealed Album was part of Phantasmagoria's inventory when they closed in 1978, it cannot be any newer than a 1978 pressing. Being a Sealed Album, I cannot tell specifically what pressing it is prior to 1978. In some cases, hype stickers might help to determine if it is a first pressing, but I cannot be any more specific.

Phantasmagoria used round colored stickers to indicate the price of their inventory. They had a sign on the wall with the color sticker combinations for the customers to use so they knew the price of what they were purchasing. Some of the Sealed Albums still have these stickers on them, and in some rare cases, the stickers are written on. Some of the Sealed Albums have prices on them. This is the price you would have paid for this Sealed Album in 1978 if you had bought it at Phantasmagoria. If this Sealed Album has a price on it, please don't confuse the price with the current value for this Sealed Album.

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• Think (About It)
• Hold On! I'm Comin'
• You Send Me
• Never Gonna Give You Up
• Let's Go Get Stoned
• Two Steps from the Blues
• If I Were Your Woman
• Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
• You've Really Got a Hold on Me
• Thrill on the Hill (Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go)
• Forever Young

• Charles Rose: Horn
• Johnny Sandlin: Guitar, Producer
• Tommy Talton: Guitar
• Harvey Thompson: Horn
• Sam Whiteside: Engineer, Remixing
• Bobby Whitlock: Vocals
• Marie Kaylan: Art Direction
• Richard Betts: Guitar
• David Alexander: Photography
• Fred Meyer: Digital Remastering
• Bonnie Bramlett: Vocals, Main Performer
• Jimmy Hall: Vocals
• Mickey Thomas: Vocals
• Anita Ball: Vocals (Background)
• Barry Beckett: Organ, Piano (Electric), Clavinet, Keyboards, Piano
• Randall Bramblett: Saxophone, Sax (Soprano)
• Harrison Calloway: Horn, Horn Arrangements
• Ronnie Eades: Horn
• Ed Freeman: Conductor, String Arrangements
• Roger Hawkins: Drums
• Ricky Hirsch: Guitar, Horn
• David Hood: Bass
• Paul Hornsby: Organ, Keyboards
• Chuck Leavell: Piano
• Dianne Davidson: Vocals, Vocals (Background)
• Gregg Allman: Organ, Vocals
• Dickey Betts: Guitar
• Dobie Gray: Vocals

Album Review for "Lady's Choice"

Although Bonnie Bramlett is a good blue-eyed soul singer, and gets backing by top Muscle Shoals session musicians on this 1976 album, you need more than a good singer and a good band to make a good record. You also need interesting material, and while most of the songs presented here are good, they're mostly well-traveled soul and R&B covers. It seemed to be a holding pattern album of sorts, Bramlett opting to record half of the album with guest vocalists, including Gregg Allman, Dobie Gray, Bobby Whitlock, and Mickey Thomas (the last of whom sang lead on Elvin Bishop's huge hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" around this time). Any one or two of these songs would have been okay as album filler, but they in fact fill up almost the entire album, and they don't match the originals or come at them from noteworthy angles. An exception, perhaps, is Bob Dylan's "Forever Young," given a full mid-'7s rock-with-horns arrangement; at least it wasn't a composition that was overly familiar or often interpreted. Lady's Choice was combined with Bramlett's previous album, 1974's It's Time, on a single-CD reissue by Raven Records. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Bonnie Bramlett Biography by William Ruhlmann

Bonnie Bramlett is an R&B/rock singer. She moved to Memphis in the early '60s and became a session and backup singer for R&B and blues performers such as Fontella Bass and Albert King. She then became a member of the Ikettes, the backup singers for Ike & Tina Turner. That brought her to Los Angeles in 1967, where she met Delaney Bramlett, who had been a member of the Shindogs, the resident group on the TV show Shindig; they married within five days and formed a musical act, Delaney and Bonnie. Delaney and Bonnie cut an album for Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T. and the MG's, but it was not released at first. They then formed a group called Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who featured Leon Russell among others, and cut Accept No Substitute (1969). After Delaney and Bonnie and Friends toured opening for Blind Faith, Eric Clapton left that group and joined them along with such notables as George Harrison and Dave Mason. This resulted in the On Tour album, after which members of the Friends band worked with Clapton and Harrison, and on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Delaney and Bonnie made several more albums before divorcing. Bramlett then formed the Bonnie Bramlett Band and released her debut solo album, Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, backed by the Average White Band, in 1973. She then signed to Capricorn Records and made It's Time (1975), Lady's Choice (1976), and Memories (1978). She later became a born-again Christian and began singing gospel music. She turned to acting in 1987, under the name Bonnie Sheridan, and has since appeared in the film The Doors and the TV series Rosanne. In 2002 Bramlett returned to the music world with the release of her first album in over twenty years, I'm Still the Same on Audium. The record features Bramlett singing a variety of styles like jazz, blues, and adult contemporary in a voice that has lost little of its power.

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