Showing posts with label Carl Hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carl Hall. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Carl Hall

This is something of a non-standard post as there are a mere two tracks, that is all that I have and THAT comes from a Jerry Ragovy (the Producer who also brought you Howard Tate and Garnett Mimms) set. Only two tracks but two tracks that are so powerful they rated a post for this guy!

" Carl Hall was an African-American singer, actor, and musical arranger. A member of Raymond Raspberry's eponymous gospel group "The Raspberry Singers", recording on the US Savoy Records label, he performed in theatre for three decades, beginning with Tambourines to Glory in 1963.

Beyond the Raspberry Singers, he recorded later that decade several singles for Mercury Records and cut the now much sought-after tracks, "You Don't Know Nothing About Love" / "Mean it baby" (Loma 2086, 1967) and "I don't want to be your used to be" / "The dam busted" for the Warner Brothers subsidiary label, Loma Records, produced by leading producer Jerry Ragovoy. In 1973, he released a single on Columbia 45813 called "What About You". also appeared on Broadway in the stage production of the musical The Wiz among other shows."

The only information I've found beyond this is that he died in the Aids epidemic that ravaged the New York theater community. The two songs here are You Don't Know Nothing About Love and What About You.