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Included on the group's 1972 album Be Altitude: Respect Yourself, "I'll Take You There" features lead singer Mavis Staples inviting her listeners to seek Heaven.The song is almost completely a call-and-response chorus, with the introduction and bassline being lifted—uncredited—from "The Liquidator", a 1969 reggae hit written by Harry Johnson and performed by the Harry J Allstars.
The Staple Singers with Soul Train host Don Cornelius in 1974. The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (April 11, 1934 – February 21, 2013), [1] Pervis (November 18, 1935 ...
mavisstaples.com. mavisstaples. .com. Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band The Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. During her time in the group, she recorded the hit singles "I'll Take You There ...
The Staple Singers gained a huge audience with their first No. 1 hit, “I’ll Take You There” in 1972 and followed with top 40 hits “Respect Yourself,” “Heavy Makes You Happy,” and ...
Staple Sisters - harmony and backing vocals; Terry Manning - guitars, lead guitar, fuzz guitar, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, vibraphones, marimbas, harmonica; Eddie Hinton - guitar on "I'll Take You There" Raymond Banks - guitar on "I'll Take You There"
The two-hour film documents a concert that was put on in Chicago in 1972 to support Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, with an all-star cast of performers that also included the Staple Singers ...
Riverside. Roebuck " Pops " Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s", [1] he was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters ...
City in the Sky is an album by the American music group the Staple Singers, released in 1974. [1][2] It was the group's final album for Stax Records. [3][4] The 1990s reissue appended bonus tracks from the group's set at Wattstax. [5] The title track was released as the first single. [6] The album peaked at No. 125 on the Billboard 200.