Artist: Carla Thomas
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
The Queen Alone
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
The Platinum Collection
Year: 2007
Tracks: 20
In the glorious decade and a half of sound that was Stax in the '60s and early '70s, Carla Thomas was the Queen of Memphis Soul. She was born in Memphis in 1942, and 18 age later she recorded a duette with her sire Rufus Thomas, giving the fledgeling Satellite label its get-go tasting of success with the regional hit "Movement I Love You." As her eighteenth birthday john Drew near, she cut her first gear solo undivided, the stripling ballad "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)." Written a few days earlier and rejected by Vee-Jay in Chicago, it gave Satellite its first national hit, break the Top Ten grade on both the R&B and pop charts. Shortly thereafter Satellite became Stax, and Carla proceeded to claw her way onto the national charts another 22 times with such god slices of soul as her answer song to Sam Cooke, "I'll Bring It on Home to You," as well as "Let Me Be Good to You," "Babe," "Hiker" (with Otis Redding), and "I Like What You're Doing to Me." Carla released captain Hicks solo albums and, with Redding, one duet record album on Stax between 1961 and 1971. In 2007 a alive album she recorded for Stax at Washington's far-famed Bohemian Caverns plunk for in 1967 was released in its integrality, including an impromtu cameo fructify from her sire, Rufus Thomas.
