Rita Coolidge is the self-titled debut album by Rita Coolidge.
Track listing
Side one "That Man Is My Weakness" (Donna Weiss, Craig Doerge) – 3:50 "Second Story Window" (Marc Benno) – 3:00 "Crazy Love" (Van Morrison) – 3:35 "The Happy Song" (Otis Redding, Steve Cropper) – 3:50 "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) – 5:55
Side two "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) – 4:10 "Ain't That Peculiar" (William Robinson, Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin) – 4:02 "I Always Called Them Mountains" (Marc Benno) – 3:47 "Mud Island" (Donna Weiss, Mary Unobsky) – 4:28 "I Believe in You" (Neil Young) – 3:10
Album notes "That Man Is My Weakness" Leon Russell – piano, organ Spooner Oldham – electric piano Clarence White – guitar Marc Benno – guitar Chris Ethridge – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums
"Second Story Window" Stephen Stills – acoustic guitar Booker T. Jones – bass guitar Jim Keltner – percussion
"Crazy Love" Booker T. Jones – piano, organ Stephen Stills – guitar Bobby Womack – guitar Donald Dunn – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums Bobbye Hall Porter – tambourine
"The Happy Song" Booker T. Jones – organ Spooner Oldham – electric piano Clarence White – guitar Jerry McGee – guitar Chris Ethridge – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums Bobbye Hall Porter – tambourine
"Seven Bridges Road" Booker T. Jones – piano Spooner Oldham – organ Clarence White – acoustic guitar Jerry McGee – Dobro, electric sitar Chris Ethridge – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums Bobbye Hall Porter – bongos Plas Johnson – alto saxophone
"Born Under a Bad Sign" Booker T. Jones – electric piano Spooner Oldham – organ Clarence White – guitar Ry Cooder – bottleneck guitar Chris Ethridge – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums Bobbye Hall Porter – congas Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone
"Ain't That Peculiar" Booker T. Jones – electric piano Clarence White – guitar Jerry McGee – guitar Chris Ethridge – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums Bobbye Hall Porter – tambourine, congas
"(I Always Called Them) Mountains" Clarence White – guitar Jerry Mcgee – acoustic guitar Spooner Oldham – organ, piano Chris Ethridge – bass Jim Keltner – drums
"Mud Island" Booker T. Jones – organ, guitar Spooner Oldham – electric piano Clarence White – guitar Ry Cooder – bottleneck guitar Fuzzy Samuels – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums, percussion Bobbye Hall Porter – tambourine, congas
"I Believe in You" Spooner Oldham – electric piano Clarence White – acoustic guitar Jerry McGee – acoustic guitar Booker T. Jones – bass guitar Jim Keltner – drums
Horns Jim Horn – baritone, alto & tenor saxophone John Kelson – tenor saxophone & bass clarinet Don Menza – tenor & alto saxophone & bass clarinet Clifford Scott – tenor saxophone Peter Christlieb – tenor saxophone Plas Johnson – tenor & alto saxophone George Bohanon – trombone & baritone horn Lew McCreary – trombone Ernie Tack – trombone Jack Redmond – trombone Dick Hyde – trombone Oliver Mitchell – trumpet & Flugal horn Charles Findley – trumpet & Flugal horn Al Aarons – trumpet & Flugal horn Dalton Smith – trumpet & Flugal horn Vincent DeRosa – French horn Bill Hinshaw – French horn Arthur Maebe – French horn David Duke – French horn
Strings Jesse Ehrlich – cello Jerome Kessler – cello Leonard Malarsky – violin William Kurasch – violin Wilbert Nutycomb – violin James Getzoff – violin Harry Bluestone – violin Ralph Schaeffer – violin Gareth Nuttycombe – viola Samuel Boghossian – viola
Background vocals The Blackberries – Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews, Priscilla Coolidge, Donna Weiss, and Rita Coolidge with Graham Nash, Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop on "Crazy Love" Arranger: String and Horn Arrangements by Booker T. Jones with the exception of "Ain't That Peculiar", "Born Under a Bad Sign", and "That Man Is My Weakness" arranged by Jim Horn and his Dynamite Horn Section Engineer: Bruce Botnick Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders Cover Photograph: Joel Bernstein Art Direction: Roland Young
Charts Chart (1971)Position
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