TELL MAMA,
ALL ABOUT IT
TELL MAMA,
WHAT YOU NEED
TELL MAMA,
WHAT YOU WANT
AND I'LL
MAKE IT ALRIGHT
Tell Mama
is the seventh
studio album
by American singer
Her second album release
for Cadet Records,
produced by
Rick Hall
at his
FAME Studios
in Muscle Shoals,
Alabama,
it was James's
first album since 1964
to enter the
Billboard 200 chart.
It contained her
first Top
10 R&B hits
since 1964
the title cut and
"Security".
The
"Tell Mama"
single gave
James her
all-time highest
Billboard
Hot 100 position,
reaching number 23.
Background
Tell Mama
was recorded at the
FAME Studios
in Muscle Shoals,
Alabama,
on the
encouragement of
Leonard Chess,
who successfully
convinced James to
record the album there.
Allmusic reviewer,
Bill Dahl
praised the album's
production,
called its sessions
"skin-tight."
At Muscle Shoals,
producers were able
to mix her voice
in order for it to
sound stronger on
previously-distorted
high notes.
The album's title track
became one of the
biggest hits
of James's career,
becoming her first
Top 10 hit
in four years
and her
highest-peaking single
on the
Billboard Pop chart,
reaching #23.
It has since been
considered one of her
all-time classics.
The album's cover of
Otis Redding's
"Security"
also became
a major hit,
reaching
the Top 20
on the
R&B singles chart,
while also making
the Pop Top 40.
Besides a cover version
of Redding's composition,
other cover versions
included
Jimmy Hughes's
"Don't Lose Your Good Thing"
and a pair of
copyrights by
Don Covay.
It also featured
the title track's
B-side,
"I'd Rather Go Blind,"
It was later released
and included
additional bonus tracks,
including cover versions
of
David Houston's,
"Almost Persuaded"
and
Sonny & Cher's
"I Got You Babe
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