Such A Much! R&B Girls of the 50s & 60s
Various Artists

•    Here’s a crunching collection of R&B girls, with coyness in short supply. In fact, the sassy singers gathered here on this collection of rockers, wailers, and neo-popcorn favourites tend not to be girls, exactly.

•    Highlights include Blanche Thomas’s You Ain’t So Such A Much, written as a response to Hound Dog – faster, tougher, and easier on its feet. Ruth Brown’s atmospheric Sure ‘Nuff includes King Curtis on sax and Phil Spector on piano, with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller producing. Doris Payne went on to become better known – and to score a sizeable hit with Just One Look in 1963 – as Doris Troy.  

•    Like Doris, both Marie Knight and Big Maybelle are better known for their sixties soul sides than they are for their fifties R&B ravers, but I’ve Got A Feelin’ and I Thought I Told You Not To Tell Them are jukebox-ready classics.

•    All twenty songs here are floor fillers, waiting to be the centrepiece of a movie soundtrack or – better yet – the soundtrack to your next house party.

NB: This title is released on October 27, 2014 and will not be dispatched until this date.

TRACK LIST:

1.    COME ON AND LOVE ME – Lucille Brown

2.    YOU AIN’T SO SUCH A MUCH – Blanche Thomas

3.    VOODOO VOODOO – La Vern Baker

4.    THAT’S WHY I CRY – Varetta Willard

5.    I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL THEM – Marie Knight

6.    KNOCK KNOCK – Carol Fran

7.    NOBODY’S GONNA HURT YOU – Annie Laurie

8.    YOU MOVE ME SO – Paula Grimes

9.    PUT ON MY SHOES – Mary Ann Fisher

10.    MISH MASH – Carrie Grant

11.    I’VE GOT A FEELIN’ – Big Maybelle

12.    EASY EASY BABY – Ann Cole

13.    IF IT’S NEWS TO YOU – Little Esther

14.    PLEASE MR JAILER – Wynona Carr

15.    YOU BETTER MIND – Doris Payne

16.    BABY PLEASE DON’T GO – Jo Ann Henderson

17.    NOBODY LOVES YOU LIKE ME – Etta James

18.    SURE ‘NUFF – Ruth Brown

19.    TINY TIM – La Vern Baker

20.    AND THE ANGELS SING – Fay Simmons