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Originally recorded for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, this 1978 outing from the disco diva features "If My Friends Could See Me Now," "Runaway Love," "Gypsy Lady," and two bonus tracks.
For Linda Clifford's second album, producers Gil Askey and Curtis Mayfield wisely left behind the overabundance of cover tunes that weighted down her debut outing to concentrate on original material. The result is If My Friends Could See Me Now, the opus that earned Clifford her disco diva status. The first side of the album represents her finest recorded work. It starts with a bang via the title track, which transforms this classic show tune from Sweet Charity into a driving slice of orchestrated disco. It provides an ideal vehicle for Clifford's brassy vocal persona and is further sweetened by expert call and response support from the Jones Girls on backup vocals. From there, the album downshifts into a gentler mood with "You Are, You Are," a Curtis Mayfield song that combines a lovely mid-tempo groove with some spacy synthesizer effects and romantic-devotion lyrics that are given emotional heft by Clifford's vocal conviction. The coup de grāce is provided by "Runaway Love," a funky, Latin-accented dressing down of an unfaithful lover that intersperses its silky rhythms with spoken word bits in a Millie Jackson-styled feminist vein. Unfortunately, the second side doesn't hold up quite as well. The flamenco-flavored "Broadway Gypsy Lady" gets the toes tapping, but the other tunes feel like filler: they are solidly crafted and professionally performed, but lack the distinctive lyrical and musical hooks that made the first side such a treat. Despite this unevenness, If My Friends Could See Me Now is listenable all the way through and remains Clifford's shining hour on record. ~ Donald A. Guarisco
UK pressing of the 1978 album from the Disco Diva, originally released on Curtom. 7 tracks. Charly. 2005. If My Friends Could See Me Now Music Linda Clifford If My Friends Could See Me Now Songs | 1. | If My Friends Could See Me Now | |
| 2. | You Are You Are | |
| 3. | Runaway Love | |
| 4. | Broadway Gypsy Lady | |
| 5. | I Feel Like Falling in Love Again | |
| 6. | Please Darling, Don't Say Goodbye | |
| 7. | Gypsy Lady | |
| 8. | You Can Do It (Bonus Track) | |
| 9. | From Now on (Bonus Track) | |
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