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 number 2 on the R&B chart and number5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A second single, "Make Yours a Happy Home", was released two years later in 1976 and was a moderate hit, peaking at number 13 R&B and number 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
Personnel Rich Tufo – arranger Roger Anfinsen – engineer Milton Sincoff – creative packaging director Joseph "Lucky" Scott – bass Curtis Mayfield, Phil Upchurch – guitars Quentin Joseph – drums Henry Gibson – congas Rich Tufo – keyboards, organ
Charts Chart (1974)PeakU.S. Billboard Top LPs35U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs1
Singles Year Single Chart positions US USR&B UK1974 "On and On" 5 2 —1976 "Make Yours a Happy Home" — 13 35
See also List of number-one R&B albums of 1974 (U.S.)
References
External links Claudine at Discogs How Curtis Mayfield and Gladys Knight Created a Sound for Working-Class Black America an essay by Mark Anthony Neal at the Criterion Collection