Accept No Substitute
| The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends | ||||
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| Studio album by Delaney & Bonnie | ||||
| Released | July 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969; Elektra Sound Recorders Studios, 962 La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90069 | |||
| Genre | Soul, rock and roll, gospel, country, blue-eyed soul | |||
| Length | 34:22 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | Delaney Bramlett, assisted by David Anderle | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
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| The Village Voice | A+ |
The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, also known by its subtitle Accept No Substitute, is the second studio album by American recording duo Delaney & Bonnie. It was recorded with many of the "friends" that would form the core of their best-known 1969–70 touring band, including Leon Russell, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Rita Coolidge.
The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends was released in July 1969 after Delaney & Bonnie had signed to Elektra Records. It charted at only number 175 on the Billboard 200 in August, but it received widespread acclaim from critics.
Upon hearing pre-release mixes of the album, George Harrison offered Delaney and Bonnie a contract with the Beatles' Apple Records label, which they signed despite their prior contractual commitment to Elektra. According to Elektra founder Jac Holzman's book on that label's early history, Apple went so far as to make test pressings of Accept No Substitute based on this contract, which was subsequently voided.
After the album's release, frustrated that no copies of Accept No Substitute were available in his father's home town record store, an apparently drunken Delaney Bramlett phoned Holzman (who was in the UK at the time) saying that he would "come to England and kill" Holzman if the situation was not immediately corrected. Holzman responded by releasing Delaney and Bonnie from their Elektra contract. Coincidentally, the Kinney National Company (now Time Warner), owners of the Bramletts' next label Atco Records, would buy out Elektra in 1970.
One song from this album, "Ghetto," would become a regular feature of Delaney and Bonnie's live shows. The song, co-authored by Bonnie during Delaney and Bonnie's tenure at Stax Records, was later covered by Stax stars The Staple Singers.
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