Name: United
Brand: Eddie Holman

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CHARLY614LP

Colour

Orange

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-05-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5060767443484

Total Cap

9999

Orange LP

Artist

Eddie Holman

Genre GB

Blues / Gospel

Label GB

Charly

Charly Records, also known as Charly, is a British label specializing in reissuing old music from iconic catalogs such as Sun Record Company and Chess. Founded by Jean-Luc Young in France in 1974 and later moved to England in 1975, Charly Records has become a renowned name in the industry.

Throughout its history, Charly Records established various associated companies for licensing and rights, including Charly Records International APS based in Denmark and Charly Holdings Inc. registered in the USA. In the 1990s, they collaborated with Movieplay Portuguesa for CD releases, resulting in the presence of SPA rights society on those releases.

Despite being dissolved in 2001, Charly Records underwent new management and became part of the Snapper Music group. Today, it continues to distribute its reissued music through their extensive network.

One of the most revered deep soul singers of the Sixties alongside the likes of James Carr, Percy Sledge and O. V. Wright, Eddie Holman was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1946. He was very much a child of the church… “I have been in church all of my life, from the start of singing to this very day.” And it is the influence of the black Methodist singers that have guided his carrer from early perfomanxes on NBC TV’s Children’s Hour to his world-wide million- selling hit ‘Hey There Lonely Girl’. United features many musical elements of the “old” Eddie Holman, even down to using many of the same musicians who played on some of his old soul hits who recorded at Philly’s world-famous Sigma Sound Studio with Norman Harris on guitar, Ronnie Baker on bass and keyboardist Eugene Curry who gave United a firm rhythmic bedrock on which to build Eddie’s intricate vocal patterns. The songs, all self-penned, dug deep, from the doowop flavoured title track which features some of Eddie’s best vocal ducks and swirls, to the funky ‘Thank You For Saving Me’. And the lilting ‘Eternal Love’ has one of the most spinetingling five seconds of music ever recorded… the word “Jesus” broken into a 12-syllable falsetto soar. “Eddie Holman’s voice, an astonishing precision instrument which can leap octaves with the speed of mercury and bend notes into shapes unimagined by lesser singers, has assured its possessor a place in soul history.” Tony Cummings

United

Music GB

Discover United by Eddie Holman on Charly. A soulful masterpiece showcasing his intricate vocal patterns and powerful lyrics. Available in various formats.