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I Love My Lady
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Sony/Columbia 1981
Johnny Mathis
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MUSICIANS |
SONGS |
- No confirmed participation. Thanks
to Raymond Jones for recalling participators.
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- Johhny Mathis
- Alfa Anderson
- Luci Martin
- Fonzi Thornton
- Michelle Cobbs
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- No confirmed participation. Thanks
to Raymond Jones for recalling participators.
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- Bass: Bernard Edwards
- Guitar: Nile Rodgers
- Drums: Tony Thompson
- Keyboards: Raymond Jones, Andy Schwartz, Rob Sabino?
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- Thanks to Nancy Hunt, Nile Rodgers & Simon Parr
for the track list.
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- -I Love My Lady
- -I Want To Fall
In Love
- -It's Allright To
Love Me
- -Judy
- -Love And Be Loved (demo clip released by NileRodgers.com sung by Fonzi Thornton)
- -Sing
- -Take Me
- -Go With The Flow
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| MORE INFO |
- This album was recorded in February of 1981. It was not
a failed project, it was finished! The true reason behind the decision
not to release it is not truly known. However people have said that Johnny
Mathis management and Columbia records execs thought it was too modern
sounding, not like Mathis efforts in the past.
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- It is sad that Johnny Mathis, Columbia or however matters
in this, STILL, after 23 years! to my knowledge, aren't making any
effort to get this classic CHIC Organization production released.
As a CHIC fan I'm wondering what extraordinary Tony Thompson drumming,
Bernard Edwards bass play or Nile Rodgers guitar work the world and I have
missed hearing for 23 years. Or for that matter what extraordinary singing
Johnny Mathis and the CHIC vocalists; Alfa, Luci, Fonzi & Michelle
did on this record.
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- Is this album still something that can hurt Mathis career?
Of course not, the only thing the release of this album can effect is gratitude
and happiness. Diana Ross and/or Motown (?) overcame fears in 23 years
and finally released the original CHIC mix of the 'diana' album last year
2003 (MUCH respect to them!). So, Columbia, Mr. Mathis or whoever, make
us happy and release this album. (pocat webmaster)
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- After having written the above I have
received new info that Johnny
Mathis is NOT! opposed to this album being released, in fact his
people have tried to get Sony to release it, but Sony refuses! And
they wonder why people are angry at record company execs? Thanks so
much to Dianna Poling Witucki at JohnnyMathis.com for the below statement.
Now we fans can focus entirely on Sony, and help them see reason.
(pocat webmaster)
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- "We regret that, to our knowledge,
"I Love My Lady" will not see the light of day. We have forwarded
to Sony, by way of our attorney, letters, inquiries, etc. from fans who
were hoping to hear this album. This seems to have had no impact. Although
we appreciate your enthusiasm, we won't be pursuing the matter any further
with Sony. Mr. Mathis has already weighed in on the matter, and they refused
to release it. Sorry."
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- SAID ABOUT THE ALBUM:
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- -Tony Thompson about the album (TONY THOMPSON-'The
Man Who Put The Backbone In CHIC' interview by Ian Mcann, in Echoes
magazine, March 16th 1985):
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- Ian Mcann: What about the Mathis LP? Did it exist?
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- Tony: "That's right. It's a serious album. It's serious, and it's on the shelf. I think that Columbia, his record label, thought that it would alienate his audience. So they didn't want to release it and it was such a good album. You never heard Johnny Mathis sing like this. No-one has. He grooves to death with this album, grooves to death. It was serious. We did like a Brazilian type funk-samba on this; oh, incredible. Sang his ass off. Phut. No-one's ever gonna hear it. I hate that. We spent time on this. It was a real good album."
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- -It sounds like the writer Glenn O'Brien has heard
the album? (ALL THE WAY OFF 'Take It Off' reviewed by Glenn O'Brien
in Interview magazine, February, 1982):
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- Being the new godfathers of the new funk,
it's only natural that they would concentrate on basics and dance-motivating
material-especially since some of their recent production projects-JOHNNY
MATHIS, DIANA ROSS and DEBBIE HARRY-contained a lot of strong ballad and
production number stuff.
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- -CHIC fan Simon Parr asked Nile Rodgers
about the album last year (2003);
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- Nile has no idea if the Johnny Mathis
album will ever be heard. He said he thought it was a great album and that
a track off it called "Go with the Flow" was one of their
best. No material from that album was ever used on future CHIC projects.
- A video clip of Fonzi Thornton singing on the demo of "Love And Be Loved" has been released in the members area of NileRodgers.com (free to sign up) (April 15th 2006) GO!
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