Try A Little Tenderness - Malcolm Dodds

 

Shangri-La

Try A Little Tenderness

Malcolm Dodds

Arranged and Conducted by Sid Bass

Produced by Ethel Gabriel

Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

RCA CAMDEM CAL-831

1964

From the back cover: The curtain rises on a new top singer in the person of Malcolm Dodds. Here is a performer who seems to possess the right combination of those undefinable qualities that contribute to singing stardom. Hi voice, while it may remind you vaguely of several other singers, has a timbre and richness as distinctive individual as a personal signature. The warmth and sincerity of his style fill in a musical  image that is strictly Malcom Dodds, on one else. After you've heard hi appealing performances in this outstanding collection of beautiful ballad hits, you'll agree that Malcom Dodds is far from a newcomer to the music scene. He's a newcomer only as a solo pop singer, for Malcolm has known the sweet sound of success and acclaim in a variety of music fields – choral singers, spirituals, TV jingles, arranger, composer and background singer from numerous top pop singing stars, and leader of the incomparable Malcolm Dodds Singers. Dodds and his Singers are well known to a coterie of music fans via albums, TV appearance s and engagements at Carnegie Hall. Now Dodds at long last steps into a new spotlight as a pop soloist, and the evidence is clear that a new and even more exciting career is unfolding.

There is no doubt that Malcom Dodds has a great understanding of background as choral and spiritual singer. He feels music, interprets it and creates a communication with his listens that is unique and rewarding in pop singing.

An exceptional ballad in this noteworthy album is Call Me Irresponsible, the 1963 Academy Award-winning song by betray tunesmiths James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Demonstrating both his vocal versatility and interpretative intuition, Dodd changes mood with the majestic pop classic Bluebird Of Happiness. then demonstrates his delicate touch with the wistful Scarlet Ribbons. He is tenderness personified with Try A Little Tenderness, the every-popular 1932 ballad, and touchingly meditative with the sadly beautiful Ebb Tide, written for all time in 1953. Never Leave Me, from Gordon Jenkins' famous "Manhattan Towers," Misty , all the rest receive interpretations befitting their individuality.

This album spotlights the great singing voice of Malcom Dodds as a new pop artist with talent and qualities that assuredly mark him for universal polarity and acclaim.

Try A Little Tenderness

Call Me Irresponsible

Shangri-La

Ebb Tide

Bluebird Of Happiness

Never Leave Me

People

Tender Is The Night

Misty

Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)