PERCY SLEDGE Greatest Hits

PERCY SLEDGE - Greatest Hits (1993) While he worked as a hospital nurse in the early '60s, Sledge began his professional music career as a member of the Southern soul vocal group the Esquires Combo. On the advice of local disc jockey Quin Ivy, he went solo in1966... and recorded the song "When A Man Loves A Woman" ! The single became a huge hit in the summer of 1966, topping both the pop and R&B charts. It was quickly followed that year by two Top 10 R&B hits, "Warm and Tender Love" and "It Tears Me Up". Even if Percy Sledge will forever be associated with "When a Man Loves a Woman", his soulful and moving voice had made him one of the key figures of deep Southern Soul from this century ! An irresistible release !