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==Release, critical reception and singles== |
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==Release, critical reception and singles== |
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''I Gotta Be Me...This Trip Out'' was released by ABC Records in June 1968<ref>{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases |magazine=] |date=June 1, 1968 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&dq=della+reese+i+gotta+be+this+trip+out&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiju4Hwj-CKAxXkMVkFHVy3DQEQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=della%20reese%20i%20gotta%20be%20this%20trip%20out&f=false |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> and was Reese's fourth studio album with the label.<ref name="Bio"/> It was distributed as a ], featuring six tracks on "Side 1" and five tracks on "Side 2". It was available in either mono or stereo formats.<ref name="Liner Notes"/> The LP received mostly a positive reception from music publications following its release. '']'' magazine named it among its "Special Merit Picks" for their "Popular" music section, writing, "A package loaded with excitement and wild performances in the unique style of the blues-gospel better. Disk destined to garner much play and sales."<ref name="Bio"/> In his book, ''Points of Departure'', Ernece B. Kelly called Reese's delivery on the album (routinely highlighting the title track) to be "especially forceful".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelley |first1=Ernece B. |title=Points of Departure |date=1972 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0471468059 |page=47}}</ref> In his book, ''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers'', Walt Friedwald gave the album a less favorable response. Friedwald called the LP, "a complete disappointment, being all dreary, bargain-basement Motown-wannabe tunes with board fade endings."<ref name="Bio"/> The album's title track was the only single from the album and it was first released in March 1968.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reese |first1=Della |title="I Gotta Be Me"/"]" (7" vinyl single) |journal=] |date=March 1968 |id=45-11051}}</ref> |
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''I Gotta Be Me...This Trip Out'' was released by ABC Records in June 1968<ref>{{cite magazine |title=New Album Releases |magazine=] |date=June 1, 1968 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&dq=della+reese+i+gotta+be+this+trip+out&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiju4Hwj-CKAxXkMVkFHVy3DQEQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=della%20reese%20i%20gotta%20be%20this%20trip%20out&f=false |access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> and was Reese's fourth studio album with the label.<ref name="Bio"/> It was distributed as a ], featuring six tracks on "Side 1" and five tracks on "Side 2". It was available in either mono or stereo formats.<ref name="Liner Notes"/> The LP received mostly a positive reception from music publications following its release. '']'' magazine named it among its "Special Merit Picks" for their "Popular" music section, writing, "A package loaded with excitement and wild performances in the unique style of the blues-gospel better. Disk destined to garner much play and sales."<ref name="Bio"/> In his book, ''Points of Departure'', Ernece B. Kelly called Reese's delivery on the album (routinely highlighting the title track) to be "especially forceful".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelley |first1=Ernece B. |title=Points of Departure |date=1972 |publisher=] |isbn=978-0471468059 |page=47}}</ref> In his book, ''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers'', Walt Friedwald gave the album a less favorable response. Friedwald called the LP, "a complete disappointment, being all dreary, bargain-basement Motown-wannabe tunes with board fade endings."<ref name="Bio"/> The album's title track was the only single from the album and it was first released in March 1968.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reese |first1=Della |title="I Gotta Be Me"/"]" (7" vinyl single) |journal=] |date=March 1968 |id=45-11051}}</ref> |
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==Track listing== |
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| headline = Side one<ref name="Liner Notes"/> |
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| writer1 = ] & ] |
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| length1 = 2:05 |
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| length2 = 2:00 |
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| title3 = I Gotta Be Me |
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| writer3 = ] |
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| length3 = 2:16 |
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| note3 = from the Broadway musical '']'' |
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| title4 = Low |
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| writer4 = ] |
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| length4 = 3:00 |
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| title5 = Go |
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| writer5 = {{hlist|Grey|Jourdan|Conara|Baselli}} |
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| length5 = 2:30 |
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| title6 = Pop Goes the World |
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| writer6 = {{hlist|G. Weiss|J. Sherman}} |
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| length6 = 2:52 |
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| headline = Side two<ref name="Liner Notes"/> |
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| title1 = I've Got the Blues |
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| writer1 = Marvin Jenkins |
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| length1 = 3:27 |
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| title2 = No Explanation Necessary |
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| writer2 = ] |
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| length2 = 2:05 |
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| title3 = ] |
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| writer3 = {{hlist|]|O. Murden}} |
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| length3 = 2:48 |
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| title4 = Hush Now Don't Cry |
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| writer4 = Marvin Jenkins |
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| length4 = 3:13 |
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| title5 = Measure of a Man |
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| writer5 = {{hlist|A. Bernstein|V. Millrose}} |
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| length5 = 2:15 |
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==Personnel== |
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==Personnel== |
Prior to her career as a television actress and talk show personality, Della Reese was a singer who recorded in the styles of blues, gospel, jazz and pop. She found commercial success as a recording artist at Jubilee Records (having a million-selling single with 1957's "And That Reminds Me") and at RCA Victor (which released her 1959 number two single "Don't You Know?"). After a series of well-selling LP's and singles, Reese transitioned to ABC Records in 1965 and recorded several more LP's through 1968. Her final album with ABC was I Gotta Be...This Trip Out. Liner notes author, Frank Kofsky, claimed that Reese was aiming with the album to "move back" towards her "blues and gospel roots". Kofsky stated that she was inspired to do so because more Black artists were receiving more mainstream radio airplay.