Artist~GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS Track~The Makings Of You Track~Make Yours A Happy Home Album~CLAUDINE Soundtrack/Movie Label~Buddah Records/20th Century Fox 1974 Claudine is a notable 1974 feature film produced by Third World Films and released to theatres by 20th Century Fox. Starring Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and King Coleman, Claudine was written by Lester Pine and Tina Pine, and directed by John Berry. It is noted for being one of the few mainstream films featuring a predominantly African-American cast that was not a blaxploitation film. The film was released on April 22, 1974, breaking the box office with a total of $79,000,000. The film tells the story of Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll), a single Black Harlem mother, living on welfare with six children, who finds love with a garbage collector, Rupert Marshall (James Earl Jones), who she calls "Roop". The pair's relationship becomes complicated because of a number of factors. Among these are that the couple do not want to marry because they would not be able to support the children without welfare, and that the kids themselves, particularly eldest son Charles (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), are apprehensive of Rupert, and believe that he will leave their mother just like her previous husbands and boyfriends. Curtis Mayfield wrote and produced the film's score and soundtrack, the vocals for which are performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips. The Claudine soundtrack was released on the group's record label, Buddah Records, and the film's theme song, "On & On", was a #5 hit for Knight and the Pips on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart in 1974. For her role in the film, Diahann Carroll was nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1975. The album was nominated for a Grammy in 1975. ------From Wikipedia we MAKE you TASTE...open wide!
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