Claudine (soundtrack)

Claudine
Soundtrack album by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Released	March 1974
Recorded	Curtom Studios (Chicago, Illinois)
Genre	Soul
Length	30:18
Label	Buddah 5602
Producer	Curtis Mayfield
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Imagination (1973) Claudine (1974) I Feel a Song (1974)
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Got to Find a Way (1974) Claudine (1974) Sweet Exorcist (1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(A-) [2]
Rolling Stone	(not rated) [3]

Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture Claudine, starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label.

The first single release, "On and On", reached #2 R&B and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single, "Make Yours a Happy Home", was released two years latter in 1976 and was a moderate hit, peaking at #13 R&B and #35 on the UK Singles Chart. The album also included one instrumental, "Claudine Theme". The album was also their third of five R&B albums chart-toppers.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Curtis Mayfield. 

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mr. Welfare Man"	5:30
2.	"To Be Invisible"	3:45
3.	"On and On"	3:44
4.	"The Makings of You"	2:24

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Claudine Theme" (Instrumental)	4:30
6.	"Hold On"	5:17
7.	"Make Yours a Happy Home"	4:35

Personnel

• Rich Tufo – arranger
• Roger Anfinsen – engineer
• Milton Sincoff – creative packaging director

Charts

Album

Year	Album	Chart positions[4]
		US	US R&B
1974	Claudine	35	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[5]
		US	US R&B	UK[6]
1974	"On and On"	5	2	—
1976	"Make Yours a Happy Home"	—	13	35

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1974 (U.S.)

References

1. ^ Hogan, Ed. Claudine' review at Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
2. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Claudine review". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1414. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
3. ^ Holden, Stephen. "Claudine review". Rolling Stone. http://web.archive.org/web/20080905112534/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/gladysknight/albums/album/188974/review/5943459/claudine_original_soundtrack. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
4. ^ "US Albums Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4698/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
5. ^ "US Singles Charts >Gladys Knight & the Pips". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4698/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
6. ^ "UK Charts > Gladys Knight & the Pips". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/gladys%20knight%20%26%20the%20pips/. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 

External links

• Claudine at Discogs