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Rock Your Baby - George McCrae / Selected Sound Carrier Audio CD 1993 / 100220792

Name: Rock Your Baby - George McCrae / Selected Sound Carrier Audio CD 1993 / 1002.2079-2
SKU: 7619929100826
Price: 15.99 USD
Availability: InStock

UPC 7619929100826

Product Details:

Label: Selected Sound Carrier - 1002.2079-2

Format: CD, Compilation

Released: 1993

Genre: Funk / Soul

Style: Soul, Disco

Editorial Review:

This Collectables disc takes George McCrae's smash album Rock Your Baby and combines it with his eponymous 1975 follow-up. As a precursor to the eventual disco movement in N.Y.C. and beyond, McCrae's soulful "Rock Your Baby" was a smash hit both on the dancefloor and on the pop charts. The majority of the tracks found on this disc follow that same pattern, with a distinctive blend of soul inspiration drawn from Philly, Memphis, Detroit, and his hometown of Miami, along with a bit of an Isley-ish touch thrown in for good measure (check "Make It Right" for an obvious example).

Tracklist:

1	You Don't Know What You Do To Me Written-By – Sierra, McCrae, Geiger	4:02
2	I Love You Written-By – McCrae, Geiger, Argy	3:27
3	Look At You Written-By – Casey/Finch	4:36
4	Thoughts Of You Written-By – Duarte	3:21
5	I Ain't Lyin' Written-By – Casey/Finch	3:50
6	How I Feel Written-By – Glassa	3:20
7	Been So Long Written-By – Casey/Finch	2:30
8	Bantu Staut Written-By – Sierra, Glasser, McCrae, Rodriguez, Duarte, Geiger, Argy	3:33
9	I Can't Leave You Alone Written-By – Casey/Finch	3:04
10	Still In Love With You Written-By – Sierra, McCrae	4:10
11	Rock Your Baby Written-By – H. Casey	3:09
12	One Step Closer Written-By – McCrae, Mitchell	3:28

About the Artist:

George Warren McCrae, Jr. (born October 19, 1944) is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".

McCrae was the second of nine children, born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He formed his own singing group, the Jivin' Jets, before joining the United States Navy in 1963. He married Gwen McCrae (nee Mosley) in 1963. Four years later, he reformed the group, with his wife Gwen joining the line-up, but soon afterwards they decided to work as a duo, recording for Henry Stone's Alston record label. Gwen then won a solo contract, with George acting as her manager as well as doing some singing on sessions and in clubs in Palm Beach.

He was about to return to college to study law enforcement, when Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded for the band, but could not reach the high notes that were required for the song. The original intention was that Gwen, his wife, should record it, but she was late for the session and George recorded alone. It suited his high-pitched voice to the extent that the song, "Rock Your Baby", became one of the first hits of the disco era in 1974, selling an estimated eleven million copies worldwide, topping the charts in the U.S. and the UK. The song was so successful that Rolling Stone magazine voted it the No. 1 song of the year in 1974. McCrae received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocalist the following year.

Two further single releases, "I Can't Leave You Alone" and "It's Been So Long" also reached the UK Singles Chart Top 10. He recorded several further albums for TK, including George McCrae (1975) and Diamond Touch (1976), and also continued to record with, and manage, his wife until their divorce in 1976. They had two daughters together, Sophia and Leah.While he continued to record albums including We Did It! and his second self-titled album George McCrae (both 1978), his commercial popularity slipped as the decade progressed. He married a second time, moved to Canada, and entered a period of semi-retirement, leaving TK at the end of the 1970s. With his second wife, he had another daughter, Jennifer McCray.

He returned with the album One Step Closer to Love in 1984, the title track from which entered the charts in Britain, Canada and Holland. In 1988, he had a daughter, Marcella, with his then-girlfriend, Rosanna Molignini. He moved to the village Munstergeleen in the Netherlands and remarried again, to Dutch model Yvonne Bergsma, in 1989. They have a son, Shaka.

His later albums found some success in Europe, and he continued to perform regularly there. By the 2000s, he shared his time between homes in Florida, Aruba, and the Netherlands. In 2016 George McCrae released a new concept album called LOVE that was produced by the Dutch producer / composer Roger Heijster. The album was recorded without sequencing using only vintage instruments. Leah and Sophia McCrae, George's two daughters from his first marriage to Gwen McCrae, provide the backing vocals for this album. The album was album of the week in Germany and the single "Sexy Woman" was # 1 in Mallorca. George keeps on performing live and in December 2017 George performed at the BBC Hootenanny show with Jools Holland.