Charles Earland / Coming To You Live b/w Street Themes (2025 Repress)

Artist: Charles Earland
Title: Coming To You Live b/w Street Themes
Label: Expansion Records
Cat.#: EXS039
Format: 7" Vinyl
Country: UK
Released: 2023
Style: Funk, Soul, Disco

Track Listing:Coming To You Love” is a classic and ever popular jazz funk and soul release from 1980. From its original release, the LP and 12” versions have dominated, this 7” version only recently coming to light as a different take on the track with a bonus. Charles Earland actually plays organ on it. No other version features this. Since the realization of its existence, the previously styrene only US Columbia 7” has exchanged hands for increasingly higher amounts.

Charles came from Philadelphia, played sax first with Jimmy McGriff before turning to organ in the late 60s and earning a nickname ‘The Mighty Burner’.

During his time at Mercury records he scored a hit song with the disco record “Let The Music Play”, building an audience with a jazz funk and soul crowd which exists to this day through numerous other releases on Mercury and then Columbia through to his passing in 1999.