Gloria Lynne "Soul Serenade" Promo LP (1965)

Details: Rare used 12” promo record, soul album by jazz and soul singer Gloria Lynne who passed away at 83 in Newark, NJ in 2013. She was awarded various awards late in life, and the official “Gloria Lynne Day” is on June 25th in New York (it began in 1995). This is a Mono version of the album. Sadly, most of Gloria’s original work was destroyed (among many other artists) in a Universal lot fire in 2008. This alternate pressing still has an original Fontana inner sleeve. Features "Joey, Joey, Joey," and the fantastic track, "Soul Serenade." The final track on Side A was originally written by Herbie Hancock. "Watermelon Man" has been recorded over 200 times. "Hancock wrote the piece to help sell his debut album as a leader, Takin' Off (1962), on Blue Note Records; it was the first piece of music he had ever composed with a commercial goal in mind. The popularity of the piece, due primarily to Mongo Santamaría, paid Hancock's bills for five or six years. Hancock did not feel the composit