Released 1972 Label Enterpise ENS 5004 Release date 1972 Genre Funk | Recorded 1972 Artist Billy Eckstine Producer Billy Eckstine | |
Senior Soul
(1972) If She Walked Into My Life
(1974) Similar Broadway - Bongos and Mr B, Billy Eckstine Sings wit, Now Singing In 12 Great, Once More with Feeling, At Basin Street East | ||
Senior Soul is a 1972 studio album by the American singer Billy Eckstine. The album was Eckstine's third for Stax Records's subsidiary Enterprise.
Contents
Reception
In an Allmusic review of a combined reissue of the album with If She Walked Into My Life, John Bush wrote that the album "...combines the sweet Southern tilt to Memphis soul listeners expect from Stax with one of the leading proto-soul stars. Though Eckstine's rich vibrato tones were both out of fashion and much more difficult to accomplish as he neared 60, there are several solid tracks here..." Bush also praised Eckstine's "wonderfully smooth sensibilities." Eckstine's biographer, Cary Ginell, described his versions of "I Believe in Music" and "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" as making Eckstine "...seem even more out of place than before".
Track listing
- "I'll Always Have Faith in You" (Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) - 4:07
- "A Man Who Sings" (Richard Landis) - 3:15
- "A Song for You" (Leon Russell) - 4:36
- "Thank You for the Moment" (Landis) - 4:01
- "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) - 4:08
- "Today Was Tomorrow Yesterday" (Mack Rice) - 4:21
- "Don't Lose Faith in Me Lord" (Rice) - 3:13
- "I Believe in Music" (Mac Davis) - 3:15
- "Living Like a Gypsy" (Landis) - 2:41
- "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) - 5:23