Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman flac album

When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright and first recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. Singer and actress Bette Midler recorded the song 14 years later and had a Top 40 hit with her version in 1980.

Album: When A Man Loves A Woman (1966). Charted: 2 1. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. As Sledge tells it, one night while performing with The Esquires Combo, he was upset about a woman - a broken relationship - so upset that he couldn't concentrate on the music he was supposed to sing. He was so overcome with emotion as the group started their set in a Sheffield, Alabama club, that he turned to his bass player Calvin Lewis and organ player Andrew Wright and asked them if they could play a slow blues backing - any key, their choice - to which he could sing

Tracks A1 When a Man Loves a Woman 2:55 A2 My Adorable One 2:42 A3 Put a Little Lovin’ on Me 2:43 A4 Love Me All the Way 2:30 A5 When She Touches Me (Nothing Else Matters) 2:32 A6 You’re Pouring Water on a Drowning Man 2:22 B1 Thief. in the Night 2:27 B2 You Fooled Me 2:34 B3 Love Makes the World Go Round 2:40 B4 Success 3:00 B5 Love Me Like You Mean It 2:26. So, what about the rest of the LP? One knows that When a Man Loves a Woman is a hard act to follow, and the rare heights achieved by that particular tune is not attained elsewhere, here. Conversation for album: Percy Sledge – 1966 – When a Man Loves a Woman.

When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on nothin' else, He'd change the world for the good thing he's found. If she is bad, he can't see it, She can do no wrong, Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down. When a man loves a woman, He'll spend his very last dime Tryin' to hold on to what he needs. He'd give up all his comforts And sleep out in the rain, If she said that's the way It ought to be. Well, this man loves you, woman. I gave you everything I have, Tryin' to hold on to your heartless love. Baby, please don't treat.

When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 near Muscle Shoals, Alabama in Sheffield. It was listed 54th in the List of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time. The sidemen for this recording included Spooner Oldham, organ; Marlin Greene, guitar; Albert "Junior" Lowe, bass and Roger Hawkins, drums. According to the When A Man Loves A Woman Songfacts, Sledge had worked on the song for months before cutting a "final" version.

Most instrumental covers of "When a Man Loves a Woman" play it pretty straight. Not the version by jazz saxophonist Harris, which opened his 1966 album The Tender Storm. He strips the song down to a handful of melodic fragments and a funky little riff or two, propelled by hard-bop pianist Cedar Walton, and reshuffles them into a six-minute jam. Harris's version marked the beginning of his engagement with soul music and of his experiments with the Varitone, an electronic effects unit that let him tweak the sound of his sax.

Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman (Single Remixed, Remastered Version) Album Lyrics. 1. When a Man Loves a Woman (Single Remixed, Remastered Version) Lyrics. 2. When a Man Loves a Woman (Single Remixed, Remastered Version) (Instrumental) Lyrics. Percy Sledge Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.

An album of the same name was released that year, and three more studio albums for Atlantic followed in the 1960s: Warm and Tender Soul, The Percy Sledge Way and Take Time to Know Her. While Mr. Sledge never again reached the heights of his first hit, When a Man Loves a Woman had many lives: as an early highlight of the Muscle Shoals, Al. music scene; as a movie soundtrack staple in the 1980s, heard in The Big Chill and Platoon ; and in a 1991 cover version by Michael Bolton, which also topped the Billboard chart. and earned Mr. Bolton a Grammy.