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In Times Like These 2:42 ░░ 02. Love Is Here To Stay 2:57 ░░ 03. When I Fall In Love 2:31 ░░ 04. Like Someone In Love 3:04 ░░ 05. Next Spring 3:24 ░░ 06. Look For The Silver Lining 2:38 ░░ 07. The River And I 3:06 ░░ 08. It Might As Well Be Spring 3:00 ░░ 09. Yesterdays 2:54 ░░ 10. Look To Your Heart 2:44 ░░ 11. The Sound Of Music 2:57 ░░ 12. Gone With The Wind 3:00 ░░ 13. 'Deed I Do 2:36 ░░ 14. How Long Has This Been Going On 2:19 ░░ 15. Green Door 2:32 ░░ 16. Never Like This 2:10 ░░ 17. And The Angels Sing 2:41 ░░ 18. In A Sentimental Mood 2:15 ░░ 19. Love Me Tender 2:22 ░░ 20. Autumn Leaves 2:42 ░░ 21. The High And The Mighty 2:17 ░░ 22. The Facts Of Life 2:20 ░░ 23. When I Was A Child 3:00 ░░ 24. Sometimes I'm Happy 2:41 ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ╔═══════════════╗ ░░ ║ N O T E S ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░ ╚═══════════════╝▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░ ░░ Includes McDaniels' first two albums, "In Times Like These" and ░░ "Sometimes I'm Happy Sometimes I'm Blue," both released in 1960. ░░ ░░ Gene McDaniels was one of the more popular artists to emerge from the ░░ 1950s R&B scene just as "soul" began to establish itself as a distinct ░░ subcategory (and later the dominant sound) of the latter genre. Born ░░ Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas City, Kansas in 1935, and later raised ░░ in Omaha, Nebraska, he was the son of a minister, and gospel music, along ░░ with the words of the bible, filled his life early on -- his early idols ░░ included the Soul Stirrers and the Swan Silvertones. Before his teens, he ░░ also discovered jazz just as bebop was sweeping the latter field, and he ░░ became an early admirer of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis; McDaniels ░░ always gravitated toward singing, not surprising given his four-octave ░░ range, but he also became proficient on the saxophone and the trumpet. ░░ ░░ His first performing group, the Echoes of Joy (later the Sultans) -- ░░ organized when he was 11 -- specialized exclusively in gospel music, but ░░ McDaniels later started to work popular tunes into their repertoire. ░░ Following a citywide singing competition in which he managed to ░░ distinguish himself amid the best of all of his peers, he started looking ░░ toward music as a career. He later forsook traditional academics in favor ░░ of study at the Omaha Conservatory of Music, and made his professional ░░ debut as a member of the Mississippi Piney Woods Singers, whose touring ░░ got him to the West Coast, where he began performing jazz as a solo ░░ singer in his spare time. Eventually he began singing with his idol, Les ░░ McCann, at a club called The Lamp, which didn't last long but built ░░ McDaniels a following sufficient to get him noticed by Liberty Records. ░░ ░░ After being signed by Sy Waronker, McDaniels was first put into the hands ░░ of producer Felix Slatkin, but their first two singles and an ░░ accompanying album failed to sell in serious quantities. His break came ░░ when Snuff Garrett took over as producer -- Slatkin was a phenomenal ░░ musician, as a violinist and conductor, but Garrett had an ear for sound ░░ and songs that was second to none, and was responsible for corraling the ░░ song that became McDaniels' first hit, "A Hundred Pounds of Clay." The ░░ singer himself hated the song, believing it too simplistic in the wake of ░░ the jazz he'd been singing for the previous decade, but Garrett's ░░ instincts proved correct, the single reaching number three in the spring ░░ of 1961 and earning a gold record award. His next record, "A Tear," was a ░░ minor chart hit. But the record after that, "Tower of Strength," ░░ co-written by Burt Bacharach, reached number five and earned McDaniels ░░ another gold record award in the process. ░░ ░░ McDaniels saw regular chart action over the next three years, and even ░░ made it into one classic jukebox movie, It's Trad, Dad (1962) (directed ░░ by Richard Lester), where he was seen performing "Another Tear Falls." ░░ His brand of soul music gradually faded from popularity, however, in the ░░ face of competition from figures such as Otis Redding and Sam & Dave, ░░ with their more raw, less pop-oriented sound. He left Liberty in 1965 and ░░ passed through Columbia and a small group of other labels. And following ░░ the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, he departed the ░░ United States. For the next three years, he lived in Denmark and Sweden ░░ and spent his time writing. When he returned to America in 1971, it was ░░ as "Eugene McDaniels" that he resumed recording, on Atlantic. After that ░░ time, he concentrated on songwriting and publishing, scoring successes in ░░ both departments: his song "Compared to What?" was recorded by McCann and ░░ also by Roberta Flack, for whom he then wrote "Reverend Lee" and the ░░ immensely successful "Feel Like MakinÆ Love," which reached number one on ░░ the Billboard, Cash Box, and Record World charts in 1974. He also ░░ produced numerous other artists, including Jimmy Smith, Merry Clayton, ░░ and Nancy Wilson. Gene McDaniels died in his sleep at home in Maine on ░░ July 29, 2011. ░░ ░░ https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bkfhmhuk2cvzgqwep5yafgbi6lu ░░ ░░█ ░░███ ░█ ░░░░██ █▓█ ████░ ░░░░░██ y o o v e e y o o █████ █████ ░░░░░░██ g o t t h e ▒████░ ██▒▒██ ░░░░░░░█ ░ ██▓██ ▓█▒██ ░░░░░░░█ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ████ ▒▓███ ▒███ ░░░░░░░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ █░█ █░█ ░███████ ████░ ░███ ░░░░░░░█ ░███░███░█ █░███░███ █████████▒ █████ ██ ░░░░░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░░░█ ██████████████ █████ █ ░░░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ██████████████████ ████▓ ░░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ████████████████████▒ ░░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ▓██████▒▒▒▒███████░ ░░░██ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ▓█████▒███████████ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ █████▒▒░████████ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░█ ██▓██▒██▓███▒ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░█ █░█ ░░░█ ██████████ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ░░░█ ░█ ░█ █░███░█ ░███ ▒███████ /─────────────────────────\ ░░░██ ███ ░| learned from vets |░ ░░░░██ ████ ░| and they |░ ░░░░░██ █████ ░| ain't pet doctors |░ ░░░░░░███ ████▒ \─────────────────────────/ ░░░░░░░▓▓█████████████▒ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀