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| Born | Christine Elizabeth Clark (1946-02-01)February 1, 1946 (age 79) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Soul,R&B |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Labels | Motown,V.I.P.,Weed |
| Website | www |
Christine Elizabeth Clark (born February 1, 1946), better known asChris Clark, is an Americansoul,jazz, andblues singer, who recorded forMotown Records. Clark became known toNorthern soul fans for hit songs such as 1965's "Do Right Baby Do Right" (written byBerry Gordy) and 1966's "Love's Gone Bad" (Holland-Dozier-Holland). She later co-wrote the screenplay for the 1972 motion pictureLady Sings the Blues starringDiana Ross,[1] which earned Clark anAcademy Award nomination.
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Clark was born inSanta Cruz, California.[2] Clark recorded a song on Motown's subsidiary label "V.I.P." with "Love's Gone Bad",[3] which reached No. 105 Pop, and No. 41 R&B in the U.S. in 1966. In Canada, the song made it to No. 95 on theRPM 100. In 1967, Clark released her first album entitledSoul Sounds on the Motown label.[1] The album featured twelve songs including a rare Motownballad called "If You Should Walk Away" (Berry Gordy, Jr.) which was slated for release as a single, but never was. Another notable recording was the 1967 UK single "I Want to Go Back There Again" (Berry Gordy, Jr). She recorded one more album for Motown on its newly created rock labelWeed entitledCC Rides Again (1969). The Belgian label Marginal released a CD ofSoul Sounds made from the original master tapes (with unaltered mixes) and it contains the songs fromSoul Sounds, five songs fromCC Rides Again and three unreleased singles. A 50-track double-CD from Universal Music was released in 2005 entitledChris Clark: The Motown Collection and includesSoul Sounds,C.C. Rides Again, and many unreleased Motown recordings. A reissue and remastered version of theSoul Sounds album was released by the Reel Music label in April 2009, the first time the album was issued on CD in the US. Clark became famous in England as the "white negress"[4] (a nickname meant as a compliment), because the six-footplatinum blonde,blue-eyed soul singer toured with fellow Motown artists, who were predominantlyblack.
Clark co-wrote the screenplay for the 1972 motion pictureLady Sings the Blues[1] starringDiana Ross, which earned her anAcademy Award nomination. During the early 1970s, she was a Vice-President of Motown's Film and Television Production Division inLos Angeles.[3]> In 1975, Clark was the Creative Assistant for the motion pictureMahogany. Ultimately, Clark served as Head of Creative Affairs for Motown from 1981 to 1989.[5] She left the employ of Motown at this time and went on to re-record "From Head to Toe" forMotorcity Records in 1991, under the production ofIan Levine.[3]
Clark performed the song "The Ghosts of San Francisco", written by R. Christian Anderson and John Thomas Bullock, for the feature filmWhen the World Came to San Francisco in 2015. The music video for the song was winner of the Mixed Genre Jazz Film Award at the New York Jazz Film Festival in November 2016.[citation needed] Clark currently lives inSanta Rosa, California, and continues to work as a screenwriter, fine art photographer and singer.[6]
In 1982, Clark married screenwriter and novelistErnest Tidyman. She was his fourth wife.[7] He died from complications from a perforated ulcer in 1984 in London.[citation needed]
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