Be Altitude: Respect Yourself Staple Singers, The SKU: 7241686 Barcode: 0888072416864 33.00 £33.00 Genre: Soul / Funk Label: Craft Recordings Released Date: 15th July 2022 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info To honor one of soul music’s most beloved and powerful albums, Stax Records and Craft Recordings are thrilled to present a 50th-anniversary edition of The Staple Singers’ Be Altitude: Respect Yourself. The best-selling title includes such enduring hits as “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself,” and features instrumentation by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the Memphis Horns. Providing listeners with the highest-quality audio experience, this special edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl and boasts all-analog remastering from the original stereo tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl. Originally released in 1972, Be Altitude: Respect Yourself found the Staple Singers at the apex of their extensive and remarkable career. The album, which marked their fourth with Stax, coalesced the Staples’ gospel roots and socially conscious lyricism with a pop-forward, R&B sensibility – thanks in large part to the keen ear of producer and label executive Al Bell, who signed the family group to the Memphis label in 1968. Yet, while Be Altitude catapulted the group to international stardom and featured some of their biggest crossover hits, the Staples had already spent more than two decades amassing a broad base of devoted fans. With a title that cleverly paid tribute to the Beatitudes – eight blessings proclaimed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew – Be Altitude: Respect Yourself delivered an inspirational message, encouraging listeners to rise above their troubles. The jacket, featuring an image of Pops, Mavis, Yvonne and Cleotha sitting in a massive jet engine, quite literally reflected that sentiment. Those uplifting themes rippled throughout Be Altitude – including in the album’s most popular hits. Lead single “Respect Yourself,” penned by soul star Luther Ingram and singer-songwriter Mack Rice (who authored hits for Wilson Pickett, the Rascals and Johnnie Taylor, among others) delivered a message of empowerment and self-respect, aimed particularly at the African American community in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Released ahead of the album in October 1971, the song landed at No. 2 on Billboard’s R&B chart and No.12 on the Hot 100. The Al Bell-penned “I’ll Take You There,” released alongside the album, imagined an idyllic world in which all people are equal, no matter their race. The joyful song resonated with fans across the world. In the US, the Staple Singers scored their first pair of No.1 hits, as “I’ll Take You There” topped the Billboard Hot 100 as well as the R&B chart. Abroad, the song landed at No. 21 on the Canadian pop charts and No. 20 in the UK. The funky “This World,” which broke the US Top 40, found the Staples putting a self-affirming twist on the traditional spiritual “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” “My mind holds this world in its hands / And when I think about this world / I can shape it just like clay / I can make myself a Garden of Eden / Or throw it all away,” sang the group. Similarly, the Homer Banks / Raymond Jackson original, “I’m Just Another Soldier,” spoke to fighting hatred with love. Other songs on the album preached the gospel more directly, including Pops Staples’ “Who Do You Think You Are (Jesus Christ the Superstar)?” Thanks in part to its top-selling singles, Be Altitude: Respect Yourself became the group’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, peaking at No.19. On the R&B chart, Be Altitude landed at No. 3 (the Staples would hit the top spot three years later, with Let’s Do It Again). Today, the album remains the Staple Singers’ crown jewel. Be Altitude’s most iconic hits, “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There,” can still frequently be heard in films, TV shows and political campaigns, while a variety of artists have covered or sampled them over the decades. Both songs were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (“I’ll Take You There” in 1999 and “Respect Yourself” in 2002) and included in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Artist Staple Singers, The Genre Soul / Funk Label Craft Recordings Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings This World Respect Yourself Name The Missing Word I'll Take You There This Old Town (People In This Town) We The People Are You Sure Who Do You Think You Are? 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