Curtis Mayfield, Phil Upchurch, Gary Thompson - guitars The chart-topping soundtrack features songs by legendary R&B artist Curtis Mayfield ('Superfly'), including 'Jump,' 'Hooked on Your Love' and the smooth ballad 'Giving Him Something He Can Feel,'.The songs "Something He Can Feel" and "Hooked on Your Love" were covered by En Vogue on their 1992 multi-platinum hit album Funky Divas.Īll songs written by Curtis Mayfield. In 2009, it was reissued on Rhino Records' budget Flashback Records label. The album itself reached the Top 20 of Billboard 's main album chart and was certified Gold for US sales of over 500,000 copies. "Something He Can Feel" was nominated for the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female grammy at the 1977 Grammy awards. However, it was Aretha's only Pop Top 40 hit during the second half of the 1970s. The first single release, " Something He Can Feel", was a No. This album returned Aretha to Gold status after two low-selling albums. The songs on the soundtrack feature the instrumental tracks and backing vocals from the film versions, with Franklin's voice taking the place of the original lead vocalists. motion picture Sparkle, starring Irene Cara. Released on May 27, 1976, the disc is the soundtrack album for the 1976 Warner Bros. Picture "Sparkle" is a soundtrack album and twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. It featured the instrumental tracks and backing vocals from the film versions but with Aretha Franklin’s voice replacing the vocals of the original lead singers. Houston’s death in February “is terribly tragic,” she said.Music from the Warner Bros. Curtis Mayfield, who had incredible success in scoring music for Superfly, wrote and produced songs on the 1976 Sparkle soundtrack. When Whitney came on to the scene, every time I saw her I saw a little bit of her mother in her.” They were doing a tribute to Burt Bacharach. “I remember seeing her mother, Cissy, when I was little,” Cara recalled. She had met Houston a few times over the years. I started hanging out in nightclubs, and I was sowing my oats.”Ĭara said she wasn’t asked to appear in the new “Sparkle” but was invited to the premiere, which she was unable to attend because of recent foot surgery. I wanted to be my own woman and all of this. “I got an apartment near where we were filming. So when she began making “Fame” she felt like rebelling against her parents. Cara admitted that most child actors like herself feel that they lost out on a childhood. Not only was “Fame” a watershed moment in her career, it also marked a personal independence. After doing off-Broadway, she made her Broadway debut in 1968 with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy in the musical “Maggie Flynn.”
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Cara, who is of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, sang on Spanish-language TV as well as appearing on “The Original Amateur Hour,” “The Tonight Show” and “The Electric Company” with Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman. The Bronx-born Cara started in show business as a 3-year-old when she was a finalist in the “Little Miss America” pageant. The second CD is a lot of jazz and even some live performances in the studio with the girls just jamming.” “There are several tunes that we wrote together and tracks we wrote separately. “Hot Caramel” is a “record for adults, it is not for kids or teens,” said Cara. I started searching for really prominent women artists who were the whole package in my mind.” There’s been renewed interest in the influential 1976 film, which featured a classic R&B score by Curtis Mayfield, since the high-profile remake starring American Idol winner Jordin Sparks. “I wanted to present a super group of extraordinarily talented women musicians and singers and songwriters. “I really wanted to put all of my energies into my project,” she said.
“For the last 10 years I have been developing a band,” she said by phone from her home in the Tampa Bay area, one of several places where she says she lives. Cara has a two-volume album out, “Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel,” and is planning a 20-city tour for next year, including a stop in Los Angeles. Sparkle Lonette McKee Sister Dwan Smith Delores Mary Alice Effie Dorian Harewood Levi Tony King Satin Beatrice Winde Mrs. She may have been out of sight, but she continued making music. But for the past decade, Cara has all but disappeared from view. “I think she was so much a part of the pop music and culture of the time.”Ĭara continued acting, composing and recording and performing in concerts, especially in Europe. “If you look at that period, Irene Cara captured the zeitgeist of that early 1980s,” said music film historian Jon Burlingame.
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