
The Staple Singers' first Stax hit was "Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)" in early 1971. The Best of the Staples Singers review in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) But Pops's unassuming moralism sets the tone and his guitar assures the flow." Wright blues that got buried on The Staple Swingers. It's Mavis's lowdown, occasionally undefined growl that dominates, of course you should hear how secular she gets with an O. "For most of this decade, Roebuck Staples-born December 28, 1914, about One Year & two weeks after Frank Sinatra-has been the oldest performer with direct access to the hit parade by some twenty-five years, so here's your chance to mind your elders. After Cropper left Stax, Al Bell produced their recordings, conducting the rhythm sessions at the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and cutting the overdubs himself with engineer/musician Terry Manning at Memphis's Ardent Studios, moving in a more funk and soul direction. In 1968, the Staple Singers signed to Stax Records and released two albums with Steve Cropper- Soul Folk in Action and We'll Get Over, Pervis returning for them. It was on Epic that the Staple Singers developed a style more accessible to mainstream audiences, with "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" and " For What It's Worth" ( Stephen Stills) in 1967. The move to Epic yielded a run of albums, including the live in-church Freedom Highway album produced by Billy Sherrill the title track of which was a civil rights movement protest song penned by Pops Staples. And even at the young age, I felt that life itself was a mystery." And Mavis was a great singer-deep and mysterious. Mavis looked to be about the same age as me in her picture (on the cover of "Uncloudy Day") . I'd think about them even at my school desk . "Uncloudy Day" was an early influence on Bob Dylan, who said of it in 2015, "It was the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard . During their early career, they recorded in an acoustic gospel- folk style with various labels: United Records, Vee-Jay Records (their " Uncloudy Day" and " Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" were best sellers), Checker Records, Riverside Records, and then Epic Records in 1965.
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They signed their first professional contract in 1952. Their first public singing appearance was at the Mount Zion Church, Chicago, where Roebuck's brother, the Rev. The family began appearing in Chicago-area churches in 1948. Roebuck worked in steel mills and meatpacking plants while his family of four children grew up.
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Roebuck and Oceola's children, son Pervis and daughters, Mavis and Yvonne, were born in Chicago. Two years later, Roebuck moved his family from Mississippi to Chicago. First child to Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his wife Oceola Staples, Cleotha was born in Drew, Mississippi, in 1934.
