Get Known Before Deal

CARL CARLTON, born in 1952 and hailing from Detroit, Michigan, was an R&B, Funk and Soul singer/songwriter who is arguably best known for his crossover hits “Everlasting Love” from 1974 and the Leon Haywood penned “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)” from 1981 which features on this, his eponymously titled album release from the same year. Carlton’s career got started through the most coincidental of circumstances – while playing baseball with friends in a vacant lot a neighbour called down and yelled for the boys to “stop playing and turn that radio off,” the reply came back, “that ain’t no radio, that’s Carl.” Within a short space of time the astonished neighbour had helped Carlton secure a deal with Lando Records in the mid-sixties, recording under the name “Little” Carl Carlton, as his voice had similarities to Stevie Wonder.

Sought-after jazz funk rarity from reed-master Roger Glen. Produced by the Mizell brothers and featuring Bill Summers and Paul Jackson from the Headhunters.