A soulful lady
.....
Crawford first polished
her craft at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez,
but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she
sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley.
Along the way she has rubbed elbows with Bootsy Collins,
Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau and others.
She then led R&B veterans
The Crusaders on the transatlantic big hit "Street Life"
(1979). This song stayed atop the U.S. jazz chart for
twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and
disco classic, and appeared in commercials in the early
2000s. Her follow up solo efforts included "'One Day
I'll Fly Away" (1980, Grand Prize for Tokyo
International Music Festival and UK #1); "You Might Need
Somebody" (1981); and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (1981);
which all became soul standards. The album, Secret
Combination (1981) stayed on the Billboard album
chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped,
despite a return to the Top Ten with "Almaz" in 1986.
Naked And True
(1995) brought Crawford back to her roots: it included
Benson's "Give Me The Night", and confirmed her soul
heritage by featuring Funkadelicists Bootsy Collins,
Bernie Worrell and The Fred Wesley Horns. But she
enjoyed her highest profile of the decade when rising
starlet, Shola Ama, had a worldwide hit with her 1997
cover of "You Might Need Somebody".
Randy
Crawford -
Secret Combination
"San Francisco
Bay music"
The Tracks are:
You Might Need Somebody, Rainy
Night In Georgia, That's How Heartaches Are Made, Two Lives, You Bring
The Sun Out, Rio De Janeiro Blue, Secret Combination, When I Lose My
Way, Time For Love & Trade Winds.
Musicians on the
Secret Combination album: Randy Crawford, Jeff Porcaro, Leon Pendarvis,
Abraham Laboriel, Steve Lukather, Dean Parks, Robben Ford, Lenny Castro,
Neil Larsen, Larry Williams, Bill Reichenbach, Gary Herbig, Jim Horn,
Chuck Findley, Phyllis St. James, Marti McCall, Petsye Powell &
Alphanette Silas.
Available from
Warner Bros/Original
release year: 1981
Randy
Crawford -
Windsong
"2nd
album"
The Tracks are:
Look Who's Lonely Now, I Have
Everything But You, He Reminds, Letter Full Of Tears, This Night Won't
Last Forever, One Hello, Windsong, When I'm Gone, Don't Come Knockin', I
Don't Want To Lose Him & We Had A Love So Strong.
Musicians on the Windsong album: Randy
Crawford, Jeff Porcaro, Leon Pendarvis, Abraham Laboriel, Neil
Stubenhaus, Steve Lukather, Dean Parks, Michael Sembello, Buzz Feiten,
Paul Jackson, Lenny Castro, Robbie Buchanan, David Sanborn, Larry
Williams, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Gary Herbig, Jim Horn, Lew McCreary,
Richard Page, Bill Champlin, Carmen Twillie, Steve George & Paulette
Brown.
Available from
Warner Bros/Original
release year: 1982
Randy
Crawford -
Nightline
"Produced by Michael
Omartian"
The Tracks are:
Nightline, Living On The Outside,
Why, Bottom Line, In Real Life, Happy Feet, This 'ole Heart Of Mine,
Lift Me Up, Ain't No Foolin' & Go On And Live It Up.
Musicians on the Nightline album: Randy
Crawford, John Robinson, Jeff Porcaro, James Gadson, Robbie Buchanan,
James Newton Howard, Denzil Miller, Eddie Nobel, David Williams, Steve
Lukather, Cecil Womack, Larry Carlton, Dann Huff, Nathan East, Abraham
Laboriel, Lenny Castro, Brenda Russell, Arnold McCuller, David Lasley,
Cecil Womack, Linda Womack, Carmen Twilley, Julia Waters & Maxine Waters.
Available from
Warner Bros/Original
release year: 1983
Randy
Crawford -
Windsong +
Nightline
"2 classic album on 1
CD"
The Tracks are:
Look Who's Lonely Now, I Have
Everything But You, He Reminds, Letter Full Of Tears, This Night Won't
Last Forever, One Hello, Windsong, When I'm Gone, Don't Come Knockin', I
Don't Want To Lose Him, We Had A Love So Strong, Nightline, Living On The Outside,
Why, Bottom Line, In Real Life, Happy Feet, This 'ole Heart Of Mine,
Lift Me Up, Ain't No Foolin' & Go On And Live It Up.
Musicians on the Nightline album: Randy
Crawford, John Robinson, Jeff Porcaro, Leon Pendarvis, James Gadson, Robbie Buchanan,
James Newton Howard, Denzil Miller, Eddie Nobel, David Williams, Steve
Lukather, Dean Parks, Cecil Womack, Larry Carlton, Dann Huff, Nathan East,
Neil Stubenhaus, Abraham
Laboriel, Lenny Castro, Brenda Russell, Arnold McCuller, David Lasley,
Cecil Womack, Linda Womack, Carmen Twilley, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters,
Michael Sembello, Buzz Feiten, Paul Jackson, Lenny Castro, Robbie
Buchanan, David Sanborn, Larry Williams, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Gary
Herbig, Jim Horn, Lew McCreary, Richard Page, Bill Champlin, Carmen
Twillie, Steve George & Paulette Brown.
Available from
Wounded Bird Records/Original
release year: 2005
