Claudine (soundtrack)

Claudine

Soundtrack album by Gladys Knight & the Pips

Released

March 1974

Recorded

Curtom Studios
(Chicago, Illinois)

Genre

Soul

Length

30:18

Label

Buddah
5602

Producer

Curtis Mayfield

Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology

Imagination
(1973)

Claudine
(1974)

I Feel a Song
(1974)

Curtis Mayfield chronology

Curtis in Chicago
(1973)

Claudine
(1974)

Sweet Exorcist
(1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	A− ^[2]
Rolling Stone	(not rated) ^[3]

Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture Claudine, starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label.

The first single release, "On and On", reached #2 R&B and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single, "Make Yours a Happy Home", was released two years later in 1976 and was a moderate hit, peaking at #13 R&B and #35 on the UK Singles Chart. The album also included one instrumental, "Claudine Theme". The album was also their third of five R&B albums chart-toppers. Also included is a cover of Mayfield's "The Makings of You".

Track listing

All tracks written by Curtis Mayfield.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mr. Welfare Man"	5:30
2.	"To Be Invisible"	3:45
3.	"On and On"	3:44
4.	"The Makings of You"	2:24

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Claudine Theme" (Instrumental)	4:30
6.	"Hold On"	5:17
7.	"Make Yours a Happy Home"	4:35

Personnel

Rich Tufo – arranger
Roger Anfinsen – engineer
Milton Sincoff – creative packaging director

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak ^[4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	35
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions^[4]
Year	Single	US	US R&B	UK^[5]
1974	"On and On"	5	2	—
1976	"Make Yours a Happy Home"	—	13	35

References

↑ Hogan, Ed. Claudine' review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Claudine review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
↑ Holden, Stephen. "Claudine review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
1 2 "US Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
↑ "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-10-16.

External links

Claudine at Discogs

Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight Merald "Bubba" Knight William Guest Edward Patten Brenda Knight Eleanor Guest Langston George Chris Morante

Studio albums	Everybody Needs Love Neither One of Us Imagination I Feel a Song 2nd Anniversary The One and Only

Soundtrack albums	Claudine

Compilation albums	The Ultimate Collection

Singles	"Every Beat of My Heart" "Giving Up" "Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me" "Everybody Needs Love" "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" "The End of Our Road" "It Should Have Been Me" "I Wish It Would Rain" "The Nitty Gritty" "If I Were Your Woman" "Help Me Make It Through the Night" "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" "The Look of Love" "Midnight Train to Georgia" "I've Got to Use My Imagination" "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "I Feel a Song (In My Heart)" "The Way We Were/Try to Remember" "Save the Overtime (For Me)" "Hero" "Love Overboard" "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind"

Related topics	Discography Aaliyah Barry Hankerson

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