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Love Is A Hurtin' Thing

by Gloria Ann Taylor

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DrBob Jones
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DrBob Jones Ok , I was some what late in picking up on this.This is a superb album full of inspirational tracks & music /lyrics that really reach.So soulful- it hurts! Wonderful...
Scott
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Scott Wonderful album with a great sound. Infinite groove potential!
Archie Stefanou
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Archie Stefanou Missed out on the LP's so snapped up the last CD copy available.
ben
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ben sooo much soul
Andrew Jervis
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Andrew Jervis Strong LP of rare and raw heartbreaker soul - which I'm honored to have been part of compiling. Includes holy grail disco 12" and title track "Love is a Hurting Thing".
Ordinary Joe
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Ordinary Joe Wonderful... another classic from Luv N' Haight, very well researched, including the "fold out" album cover as a pdf, with liner notes and photos.
It's been a long time since I bought such a good soul album.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This album compiles Gloria Ann Taylor's musical output on the Selector Sounds Label with a collection of her 7in singles. Packaged in a heavyweight tip-on jacket and includes printed booklet with photos and liner notes.

    *note this Single LP is the album ONLY and DOES NOT include the Deep Inside You EP

    Includes unlimited streaming of Love Is A Hurtin' Thing via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes Gloria Ann Taylor's musical output on the Selector Sounds Label; a collection of her 7in singles released on Selector Sound and the tracks from her highly coveted "Deep Inside You" 12in single which includes the 12in version of "Love Is A Hurtin' Thing" along with the psychedelic soul burner "Brother Less Than A Man. Premium CD digipak comes with photos and a booklet with extensive liner notes.

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Amidst much anticipation from collectors, record stores, DJ’s and producers alike Gloria Ann Taylor’s musical output on Selector Sound are compiled and pressed on 180 Gram vinyl with photos and extensive liner notes.

Soul singer Gloria Ann Taylor has no rags to riches tale to tell. Her story is one of personal sacrifice, failed relationships, and missed opportunity. She was leading a hard knock life before being swept-up by the flash and promise of a marriage and business partnership with a successful record producer. She would be nominated for a Grammy, rub shoulders with James Brown and Bootsy Collins, and turn heads from Motown. But in the end she rejected professional singing, the music business, and the lifestyle that came with it. Thankfully for music lovers, before Gloria closed the doors on her singing career, she left us with some amazing soul songs. Deeply shaded by gospel roots, her haunting sound clearly comes from the gut. Gloria did not fake the funk.

Gloria was a partial owner of the Selector Sounds label, along with her husband/producer Walter Whisenhunt (previously a right-hand man to James Brown), and her brother Leonard. They released five Gloria Taylor singles between 1971 and 1977. They also released the three-song Deep Inside You EP, under the name Gloria Ann Taylor and Walter Whisenhunt’s Orchestra. In the studio Whisenhunt would work up a unique musical brew that mixed northern soul with exotic percussion and fuzzy psychedelic guitars. He moved Gloria through a range of tempos and stylings from ballads to disco. Her gritty vocal performance was set to orchestral arrangements creating a juxtaposition of grandeur and solace. The pinnacle of their collaborations has to be the jaw-droppingly epic EP version of “Love Is a Hurting Thing”; a chugging, string-laden disco track, that sounds like proto-Theo Parrish. (excerpt from liner notes by Andrew Jervis)

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released November 27, 2015

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