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Gesamtes Secondhand-LP Angebot Discographie When A Man Loves A Woman,  Star Collection Vol. 2 My Special Prayer When A Man Loves A Woman Warm And Tender Soul  The Percy Sledge Way Star Collection  The Golden Voice Of Soul The Best of Percy Sledge  Take Time To Know Her When A Man Loves A Woman,  Das Chris Howland Schlager-Studio 4. Folge  History of Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 7: The Sound of Soul 1965-66  Deine Melodie - Die grosse Udo Jürgens Schlager-Show  No. 3 Grande Storia del Rock: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Percy Sledge  No. 19 Grande Storia del Rock: Toni Williams und Paul Robi/Percy Sledge, Lee Dorsey, King Curtis  No. 41 Grande Storia del Rock: Percy Sledge, Joe Simon, Otis Spann  The Golden Voice Of Soul  Deine Melodie - Die grosse Udo Jürgens Schlager-Show, 2. Folge Deine Melodie - Die grosse Udo Jürgens Schlager-Show, 2. Folge  The Percy Sledge Way The Super Hits Take Time To Know Her | Biographie: Percy Sledge (* 25. November 1941 in Leighton, Alabama) ist ein US-amerikanischer R&B- und Soul-Sänger. Der schwarze Sänger feierte vor allem in der zweiten Hälfte der 1960er Jahre Erfolge mit emotionalen Liebesballaden zwischen Country und Soul, die er mit nasaler Intonation vortrug. Sein größter internationaler Hit, die Eigenkomposition "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1966), wurde 1999 in die Grammy Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Percy Sledge arbeitete in seiner Jugend auf den Feldern von Leighton, später dann als Krankenpfleger im Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield. Mitte der 1960er war er an den Wochenenden mit seiner Gruppe Esquires Combo im Südosten der USA unterwegs und arbeitete die Woche über im Hospital. Ein früherer Patient stellte Percy seinem Freund dem Musikproduzenten Quin Ivy vor, der Sledge nach einer Probeaufnahme einen Schallplattenvertrag gab. Percys sanfte eindringliche Stimme eignete sich perfekt für eine Serie von Soulballaden, die von Ivy und Marlin Greene produziert wurden, die der Rockkritiker Dave Marsh einmal "emotional classics for romantics of all ages" nannte. "When A Man Loves A Woman" war seine erste Aufnahme, und sie wurde nicht nur ein internationaler Hit, sondern auch die erste Goldene Schallplatte für Atlantic Records. Diese großartige Soulhymne war der Grundstein für Percy Sledges Karriere, und Titel wie "Warm And Tender Love", "Take Time To Know Her" und "Cover Me" festigten seinen Ruhm. In den 1970ern hatte Sledge Erfolge mit Titeln wie "I'll Be Your Everything" und "Sunshine" und erntete internationalen Ruhm, besonders aber in den Niederlanden, Deutschland und auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent. Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Percy Sledge will forever be associated with "When a Man Loves a Woman," a pleading, soulful ballad he sang with wrenching, convincing anguish and passion. Sledge sang all of his songs that way, delivering them in a powerful rush where he quickly changed from soulful belting to quavering, tearful pleas. It was a voice that made him one of the key figures of deep Southern soul during the late '60s. Sledge recorded at Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama, where he frequently sang songs written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn. Not only did he sing deep soul, but Sledge was among the pioneers of country-soul, singing songs by Charlie Rich and Kris Kristofferson in a gritty, passionate style. During the '70s, his commercial success quickly faded away, but Sledge continued to tour and record into the '90s.
While he worked as a hospital nurse in the early '60s, Sledge began his professional music career as a member of the Southern soul vocal group the Esquires Combo. On the advice of local disc jockey Quin Ivy, he went solo in 1966. Ivy fancied himself a record producer and he agreed to help shape Sledge's song "When a Man Loves a Woman" into a full-fledged single, hiring Spooner Oldham to play a distinctive, legato organ phrase. Ivy released the single independently and quickly licensed it to Atlantic Records, who quickly bought out Sledge's contract. "When a Man Loves a Woman" became a huge hit in the summer of 1966, topping both the pop and R&B charts. It was quickly followed that year by two Top Ten R&B hits, "Warm and Tender Love" and "It Tears Me Up," which were both in the vein of his first hit. Although few of his subsequent singles were hits -- only "Take Time to Know Her" reached the R&B Top Ten in 1968 -- many of the songs, which were often written by Dan Penn and/or Oldham, were acknowledged as classics among soul aficionados.
Despite his strong reputation among deep soul fans, Sledge's sales had declined considerably by the early '70s, and he headed out on the club circuit in America and England. In 1974, he left Atlantic for Capricorn Records, where he surprisingly returned to the R&B Top 20 with "I'll Be Your Everything." Instead of re-igniting his career, the single was a last gasp, as far as chart success was concerned. Over the next two decades he continued to tour, and in the late '80s, "When a Man Loves a Woman" experienced a resurgence in popularity, due to its inclusion in movie soundtracks and in television commercials. Following its appearance in a 1987 Levi commercial in the U.K., the single was re-released and climbed to number two. Two years later, he won the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award. Sledge was able to turn this revived popularity into a successful career by touring constantly, playing over 100 shows a year into the '90s. In 1994, he released Blue Night, his first collection of new material in over a decade, to uniformly positive reviews.
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