{"id":14142,"date":"2025-12-16T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:37:26","slug":"everlasting-love-singer-carl-carlton-dead-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everlasting Love\u2019 singer Carl Carlton Dead at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"291\">American singer Carl Carlton has died at age 72. He was best known for his disco-era hits, including his 1974 cover of <em data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"213\">\u201cEverlasting Love,\u201d<\/em> which climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a lasting classic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"623\">Born Carlton Hudgens in Detroit, he began performing as a child under the name \u201cLittle Carl Carlton.\u201d Though his early singles found limited U.S. success, they became popular in the U.K.\u2019s Northern Soul scene. With vocals often compared to Stevie Wonder, Carlton later broke into the American mainstream with <em data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"623\">\u201cEverlasting Love.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"820\">His career peaked again in 1981 with <em data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"717\">\u201cShe\u2019s a Bad Mama Jama (She\u2019s Built, She\u2019s Stacked),\u201d<\/em> which reached No. 2 on the soul charts, followed by a successful cover of <em data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"820\">\u201cBaby I Need Your Loving.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"822\" data-end=\"1119\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Carlton continued performing live for decades and collaborated with artists including Smokey Robinson, Rick James, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, and The Commodores. He suffered a stroke in 2019 and passed away on December 14, 2025. His son confirmed the news, paying tribute to him as a music legend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSQ4UdqDksa\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1400&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&amp;rp=%2Fnews%2Feverlasting-love-singer-carl-carlton-dead-at-72%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawOuMVtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3NkdrRDB3cFRkanc5bEEyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoN62fFsP0lPKYVY1wIV_aENmUc80ZHlY4_9yOqb#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1439.5999999046326%7D\" height=\"1220\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American singer Carl Carlton has died at age 72. He was best known for his disco-era hits, including his 1974 cover of \u201cEverlasting Love,\u201d which climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a lasting classic. Born Carlton Hudgens in Detroit, he began performing as a child under the name \u201cLittle Carl&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14142\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Everlasting Love\u2019 singer Carl Carlton Dead at 72&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14144,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions\/14144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}