Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free / House of Love
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Artist: Candi StatonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Music Label: Spy
Soundtracks:
- Run To Me
- Destiny
- What A Feeling
- You Bet Your Sweet, Sweet Love
- Young Hearts Run Free
- Living For You
- Summer Time With You
- I Know
- Victim
- Honest I Do Love You
- Yesterday Evening
- I Wonder Will I Ever Get Over It
- I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
- So Blue
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Music reviews of Young Hearts Run Free / House of Love
Music Review: YOUNG HEARTS RAN FREE AND CHANGED THE MUSICAL WORLD!!,
Rating: 5 Stars
I bought this album to get the remastered version of "Young Hearts Run Free" and hear the good stuff I've heard about "House of Love." I've got the original realease recorded from an LP. I love EVERY song on this CD, but truth be told, I only bought this CD because of three reasons: 1) I had the UNIQUE priviledge of meeting and personally getting to know two of the studio performers on this project (both musician Michael Lehmann Boddicker and background vocalist June Deniece Williams - Home Depot customers and Personal friends / my family in Christ). And though I've never met Candi personally (outside of her youtube account "CandiMariaStaton") she too has been influential in my life through her career and involvement in ministry with TBN (The Trinity Broadcasting Network), which was how I originally came to know her.
Candi's "Young Hearts Run Free" single and album forever changed the landscape of her career, and it has also defined the project she had yet to produce soon after titled "House of Love," which inspite of it's smash hit "Victim" and stunner "Precious Lord" failed to chart as well as it's predecessor. The Young Hearts release was the album and title track that ushered in the disco sound and era. No song before "Young Hearts" had its sound until everyone in the music industry decided to jump on the short lived disco bandwagon. 2) The Disco era lasted from 1976 (the year I was born) until 1979, and I can say that I have the unique privilege of knowing someone who played on two albums which both started and ended the disco era: Michael Lehmann Boddicker - Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" & The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for "Saturday Night Fever" - out of the many disco albums Michael has appeared on these two are forever known, forever linked and synonymous to the disco era; it's beginnning and it's end.
A classic tune on the Young Hearts album is Candi's song "What A Feeling," which contains a laughable line I know she wouldn't say today, which is "There we were ... The Art of making Love, COUNTRY BOY STYLE! What a feeling -- What a Feeling Deep in my bones" Yee Haw!!! LOL!! Again that is something I know Candi definitely would not say today (The Art of Making Love -- Country Boy Style!). Wow she must've known a thing or two. LOL!
The success of Candi's "Young Hearts Run Free single" made it's album achieve gold status, took her career to new heights and influenced business ventures and film franchises right and left like crazy such as Disco clubs among which were the infamous "Studio 54" in New York.
Young Hearts is forever linked with the Gay and Lesbian community of that time, during which the song became their anthem.
3) Every song on this two album CD is a complete winner. They are all diamonds, but one song on on this set stands out as an extra special gem, and that is the highly underlooked track "Summer Time With You." On this track Candi essentially becomes a breathy Donna Summer type of vocalist(which predates the infamous "Love to Love You, Baby"). The heartfelt romance and beauty of this song, with it's line's like "Walking in the park even when it's dark" and "Ooh Baby we could go to the Zoo -- Just me and You, and something else to do sometime with You" in my opinion this song should've been made a single. I call "Summer Time With You" the jam that never became known as a jam. It got overlooked. Even now -- 33years later it sounds fresh and new. The remastering is so well done on this track that you can even hear Candi cough towards the end of the song. This song is true music and artistry magic in both music and lyrics.
Other stand out jams from this "Young Hearts Run Free/House of Love" combo disc are every song on the Young Hearts portion (all eight tracks), and most songs from the House of Love part I love "Victim", "Honest I do Love You," "Yesterday Evening" -- another overlooked gem, "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (Supremes cover), "So Blue" which is so so so cool. The song "I wonder Will I ever Get Over It" is also good but lacks a bit in musical power. However, the stand out gem on this album is the power packed and emotion filled "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" which is amazing to the ears and heart eventhough it appears here in an edited form. The original vinyl release ends with Candi singing with her back up singers for a few minutes acapella after the piano track ends. This song wasn't originally intended to be apart of the album, because it was just something she sang before her sessions to help her open up her vocals.
This CD is a must have and you will enjoy it for many years to come.
-Quincy
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Description of Young Hearts Run Free / House of Love
24-bit remastered CD debut for two hit disco/R&B classics, 'Young Hearts Run Free' (1976) & 'House Of Love' (1978). Spy Records.Blues CDs
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