The Rance Allen Group - Happy Needs Help (Official Audio)

Track from the compilation album Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul (1997), released on Gospel Truth/Stax.

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About the album:
This 14-track collection of the Rance Allen Group's 1971-1975 tenure with Stax Records' Gospel Truth subsidiary is a nice cross section of the mix of contemporary sounds Allen brought to gospel music during that period. Eight of the tracks ("Care," "You Need a Friend Like Mine," "Happy Needs Help," "Everybody's Talkin'," "I Don't Know What I'd Do," "The Jesus Thing," "Lonely Girl," and the title song, which goes on for almost nine minutes and features Rance's octave-jumping falsetto squeals) are previously unissued and do much to illustrate the high wire Allen walked in those early days of the contemporary gospel movement. On five of those unissued sides, Rance's voice is aided by a solid Stax rhythm section (Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass and Al Jackson, Jr.), sounding as fresh and relevant as when they were laid down more than two decades ago.