Perfect Angel
Album
Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Lyrics Born (Sound Affects)...songs and produced. Her spirit was so beautiful and shone through on every song. "Loving You" is of course incredible, but the whole Perfect Angel album is absolutely flawless. Perfectly Angelic. Is there an artist, genre, author,... In this article: Lyrics Born, Minnie Riperton, Rapper's Delight, Electric Feel, Perfect Angel, Joyo Velarde, Akira Kurosawa, Sugarhill Gang, Quannum Projects, and MGMT |
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 11, 2009
Opera-loving Scottish widow leaves millions to Met
...rare, five-octave vocal register that reached into what professional musicians call "the whistle range." With the release of her 1974 "Perfect Angel" album, many assumed hers was a storybook discovery of which Hollywood films are made.
In this article: Minnie Riperton, Jermaine Jackson, Edinburgh, Michael Jackson, and Metropolitan Opera
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Minnie Riperton
...career with her number-one hit single, "Lovin' You", on April 4, 1975. The single was the last release from her 1974 gold album entitled Perfect Angel. In 1976 Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a modified radical...
In this article: Minnie Julia Riperton, Lovin' You, Richard Rudolph, Maya Rudolph, Adventures in Paradise, Memory Lane, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, and Rotary Connection
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Lovin' You
...the song's release, Riperton was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She died on July 12, 1979. It was the fourth single from the album Perfect Angel (1974). The song is notable for Riperton's use of the whistle register. While it is believed...
In this article: Minnie Riperton, Lovin' You, R&B, Maya Rudolph, Leona Lewis, Shanice, Justin, and Every Woman Dreams
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Perfect Angel
...associate producers Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff on hand engineering and programming the synthesizers, Minnie & company recorded "Perfect Angel" at the Record Plant in LA - Stevie Wonder's choice of studio in the West Coast. "Perfect...
In this article: Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, Lovin' You, Cliff Richard, R&B, Epic Records, and Sony
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Honey (Erykah Badu song)
...covers. Diana Ross - Blue '' (as Imma Boss - ''Boo) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (as Control Freaq - Fertilizer) Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel (as Making Money - Pray for Me) Labelle - Chameleon (as Sugah Sugah - Gipson) De La...
In this article: Erykah Badu, Honey, MTV Video Music Awards, I'm in Love, Hey Ya, Rolling Stone magazine, Head to the Sky, and New Amerykah Part One
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Malcolm Cecil
...Mind, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale. Cecil is credited, with Margouleff, as engineer for the Stevie Wonder-produced album Perfect Angel (1974), by Minnie Riperton. Their unique sound made them highly-sought after and they...
In this article: Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff, Stevie Wonder, Grammy Award, British jazz, The Jazz Couriers, Cyril Davies, Dave Mason, and Steve Hillage
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Adventures in Paradise (Minnie Riperton album)
...in Paradise," and co-produced the album. The album was a modest success, but didn't match the success of "Perfect Angel". After "Lovin' You" and the "Perfect Angel' album finished their chart run, Epic wanted a follow-up disc, and fast.
In this article: Minnie Riperton, Adventures in Paradise, Leon Ware, R&B, Stewart Levine, Mastectomy, Cancer, Breast cancer, and Lovin' You
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Mariah Carey: Memoirs of an Unperfect Angel
...fingerclick in lieu of a beat it isn't always easy to discern what Carey is aiming for. The album title - a nod to Minnie Riperton's Perfect Angel - may offer a clue. Not least for its copious use of electric piano, much of Memoirs of an...
In this article: Mariah Carey, Radiohead, Minnie Riperton, R&B, I Want to Know What Love Is, Hero, Without You, Someday, and Tommy Mottola
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Perfect Angel is the second studio album by Minnie Riperton, released in 1974 by Epic Records. It was re-released on CD on October 25, 1990. The album contains the biggest hit of Riperton's career, "Lovin' You", which topped the U.S. Pop Singles chart for one week in early April 1975.
In 1973, a college intern for Epic Records, found Minnie in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida. After he heard a demo of the song "Seeing You This Way", the rep took the tape to Don Ellis, VP of A&R for Epic. Minnie signed with Epic Records, and the family moved to Los Angeles, California.
With associate producers Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff on hand engineering and programming the synthesizers, Minnie & company recorded “Perfect Angel” at the Record Plant in LA – Stevie Wonder’s choice of studio in the West Coast. “Perfect Angel” was a musical romp through rock (“Reasons”), easy-going pop (“Seeing You This Way”) with a wonderful message song that closed out side one (“On The Edge Of A Dream” – written in honor of Martin Luther King Jr). Stevie wrote the title tune as well as “Take A Little Trip”.
“Perfect Angel” would have had eight songs but Stevie felt that one more was needed to meet the industry standard of a forty-minute album. He asked Minnie & Richard to come up with a tune that they considered to be their “most embarrassing song”. With hesitation, Minnie did mention a lullaby she sang to Maya to put her to sleep at night so that she & Richard could spend “grown-up time”. With Richard’s help, Minnie came up with “Lovin’ You” – which was quickly recorded with Stevie on electric piano & synthesizers (Richard supplied the chirping birds from a sound effects reel).
After Minnie passed away, Stevie Wonder performed the title track on Soul Train, as a special tribute to Riperton.
- Name:
- Perfect Angel
- Type:
- studio
- Genre:
- Soul, R&B
- Produced by:
- Scorbu Productions (aka Stevie Wonder and Richard Rudolph)
- Recorded By:
- Minnie Riperton
- Length:
- 36:43
- Record Label:
- Epic
- Recording Dates:
- 1974 at The Record Plant
- Manufacturer:
- Epic
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