Recorded in Muscle Shoals with the Swampers in 1973 and released in January, 1974, Lookin' for a Love Again proved to be one of the venerable soul icon's most successful albums, reaching #5 in the Billboard R&B Albums chart, and yielding the hits Lookin' for a Love (R&B #1, Pop #10) and You're Welcome, Stop on By (R&B #5).
As with most other U/A quad issues (more info on the label's quad output here) Lookin' for a Love Again was a Q8-only release. In the US, the original issues were in a white cartridge, with subsequent reissues in black shells, with no notable difference between the two. Canadian releases are in a gold "RCA-style" shell and were manufactured by Cinram - the original issues of the Canadian tape were not Dolby-encoded, but sometime in mid-1974 Cinram began issuing Dolby-encoded versions, which have the Dolby logo on the cartridge artwork below the album title. Both Canadian issues are far superior to the US versions sound-wise - the US-duplicated U/A tapes are amongst the worst sounding Q8s ever issued, oversaturated to the point of distortion and with high frequency response beginning to drop off somewhere between 6 and 8 kHz. The Canadian issues, by comparison (especially the Dolby-encoded tapes) are some of the finest issued, on par with the best Dolby-encoded CBS tapes, with frequency response well beyond 12kHz.
United Artists UA-DA199-H [Q8]
Discogs links: US Q8 [Black Shell] / Canadian Q8 [Dolby]
Wiki page for the album: Lookin' for a Love Again
Side 1:
As with most other U/A quad issues (more info on the label's quad output here) Lookin' for a Love Again was a Q8-only release. In the US, the original issues were in a white cartridge, with subsequent reissues in black shells, with no notable difference between the two. Canadian releases are in a gold "RCA-style" shell and were manufactured by Cinram - the original issues of the Canadian tape were not Dolby-encoded, but sometime in mid-1974 Cinram began issuing Dolby-encoded versions, which have the Dolby logo on the cartridge artwork below the album title. Both Canadian issues are far superior to the US versions sound-wise - the US-duplicated U/A tapes are amongst the worst sounding Q8s ever issued, oversaturated to the point of distortion and with high frequency response beginning to drop off somewhere between 6 and 8 kHz. The Canadian issues, by comparison (especially the Dolby-encoded tapes) are some of the finest issued, on par with the best Dolby-encoded CBS tapes, with frequency response well beyond 12kHz.
United Artists UA-DA199-H [Q8]
Discogs links: US Q8 [Black Shell] / Canadian Q8 [Dolby]
Wiki page for the album: Lookin' for a Love Again
Side 1:
- Lookin' for a Love
- Doing It My Way
- Let It Hang Out
- Point of No Return
- Don't Let Me Down
- I Don't Wanna Be Hurt By Ya Love Again
- You're Welcome, Stop on By
- You're Messing Up a Good Thing
- Copper Kettle
- There's One Thing That Beats Failing
