Darryl Carter - Crying

Beautiful, heart-broken NY ballad. I don't know anything about Darryl Carter, but what a voice - deep, rich and full of pain. Nice uptown arrangement and lovely backing vocals, but nothing distracts from the agony of the lead. UPDATE: After reading Roben Jones' essential history of Chips Moman's American Studios - "Memphis Boys" http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1212 - I've now realised that Darryl Carter, during the 1960s, was Bobby Womack's writing partner, co-writing "How I Miss You Baby", "More Than I Can Stand", "It's Raining" and the gorgeous "Thank You" (perhaps my favourite BW track) from the "My Prescription" LP, and also co-writing BW's classic "Woman's Gotta Have It". Among lots of other songs he also wrote "No Sad Songs" recorded by Joe Simon and Oscar Toney Jr. All these tracks were cut at American, where Darryl was also employed as an assistant engineer for a while. He would go on to work at Hi in the early 70s as an artist, writer and producer - he produced the two Masqueraders 45s on that label.