The Spice of Life is the second album by Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw is an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and is still singing today. Her music has often been sampled in hip hop music, and used in television commercials.-Biography:She was first introduced to music by her uncle Jimmy Burgess, a jazz trumpet player...

. It was her last studio album with Cadet Records

Cadet Records

Cadet Records was started as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK...

 and contains her famous version of the Ashford & Simpson

Ashford & Simpson

Nickolas Ashford , and Valerie Simpson , were a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists....

 song: California Soul

California Soul

"California Soul" is a pop-soul tune written by Ashford & Simpson, issued originally as a single by American pop quintet The 5th Dimension in late 1968...

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Track listing

1. Woman Of The Ghetto 6:02
2. Call it Stormy Monday 3:01
3. Where Can I Go? 2:21
4. I'm Satisfied 2:48
5. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) 3:12
6. Liberation Conversation 2:03
7. California Soul
   California Soul
   "California Soul" is a pop-soul tune written by Ashford & Simpson, issued originally as a single by American pop quintet The 5th Dimension in late 1968...
   
    2:59
8. Go Away Little Boy 2:45
9. Looking Through The Eyes Of Love 3:00
10. Anyone Can Move A Mountain 3:03

(Note: times are taken from the original album sleeve.)

Bonus tracks on Chess Legendary Master Series (2CD with "Out of Different Bags", also with bonus tracks)

11. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

12. Waiting for Charles to Come Home

13. The House that Jack Built

14. Brother Where are You

15. We Could Have Been Fine

Technical Personnel

• Arranged & Produced by: Richard Evans
  Richard Evans
  -Literary figures:*Richard J. Evans , English historian on the subject of Germany before and during World War II*Richard Paul Evans , American author of books with Christian themes; best known for 1995's The Christmas Box...
  
   & Charles Stepney
• Recordings Engineers: Stu Black & Dave Purple
• Album supervision: Bobby Miller
• Cover photo: Bob Crawford
• Album design: Jerry Griffith

External links

• [] at Allmusic