Love Attack (1966)

Written by Quintin Claunch (Ridgetop Music)

Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee

Singles

• Goldwax 309 b/w Coming Back To Me Baby (1966)

Albums

• The Complete Goldwax Singles
• Essential James Carr
• My Soul Is Satisfied
• You Got My Mind Messed Up

Reviews

• An utterly brilliant and highly original side that finds James Carr at the very peak of his vocal skill and ability. Rhetorical and affirmative, it is a perfect combination of voice and backing, both complementing and augmenting each other. In 1966 this presentation was radical and deliciously innovative, and records like this help set the style and pace of many more such productions which were to come afterwards. And its quality has not diminished one jot during the intervening 35 years - Dave Godin in the Complete Goldwax Singles booklet, August 2001

Love Attack '90 

Written by Quinton Claunch, B. Cantrell and D Singleton        (Rockin' Music)

Produced by Quinton Claunch, Roosevelt Jamison, John L. Rutherford and Ricky Ryan

Albums

• Take Me To The Limit

Lyrics

Now here I am
with this pain in my heart now
I got a sweet little woman
took my heart and she tore it apart
I tried not to show it
but it just ain't no use
this is like holding on to a hotwire
baby, I can't turn it loose now
I just had a love attack
Lord, I just had a love attack

now my lovelife is nothing
in fact it was a blank
until you came alone
you put a little tiger in my tank
can't you see
you got me helpless? right now baby
laid down on my back
you got me down down down down
from a love attack

I've had the mumps and measles
Lord I had the whooping cough
I've been down with ... pneumonia
but I was able to shake it off
but you came along
and knocked me flat on my back
now you got me suffering
from a little love attack

I fell for you baby
baby I fell for you just like a rock
when you turned on your love
I was so weak I just couldn't stand the shock
you hit me just like lightning
knocked me off my track
you got me down baby
I'm down with a love attack
can't you see you got me down right now
down with a love attack
got my mind messed up
I got a love attack
I love you
I love ya
I love you baby

Also Recorded By

• Darell Nulish & Texas Heat
• Frederick Hibbert