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Today's CoronaVinyl category is "C," and among the many records I recently got from my neighbor were two Linda Clifford albums, so we're going to go with her second studio album, 1978's If My Friends Could See Me Now.
Clifford was a disco/soul/R&B singer in the late '70s to mid '80s, and she had some minor mainstream success, but a considerable amount of success on the Billboard Dance tracks chart, where she had eight #1 songs between 1978 and 1982.
If My Friends Could See Me Now is a strange title. I mean, if they're your friends, they should be able to see you now. The album was released on Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, and Mayfield wrote or co-wrote several songs on the album and co-produced the album. It certainly trends heavily disco, but there are some more soulful and funkier songs on there as well.
The album was Clifford's most successful on both the main Billboard album chart and the Billboard R&B album chart, reaching #22 and #9, respectively. Three songs from the album hit #1 on the Billboard Dance tracks chart: the title track, "Runaway Love," and "Gypsy Lady." "Runaway Love" also reached #3 on the Billboard R&B singles chart, making it her highest-charting song on that chart.
Clifford released seven more albums between 1979 and 1985, and then has released various non-album singles in the 21st Century, including two singles as part of the First Ladies of Disco (with Martha Wash and Evelyn "Champagne" King) in 2015 and 2019 that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Dance tracks chart.
The Spotify version of the album has three bonus tracks, which are extended versions of songs on the album.
Favorite Song on Side 1: "Runaway Love"
This one is one of the funkier tracks on the album, and at over 7 minutes, it's the second-longest song on the album.
Favorite Song on Side 2: "Please Darling, Don't Say Goodbye"
Again, I'm going with a non-disco track. This song is the most straightforward soul song on the album.
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