Commerce Texas - Faces of Half Cherokee Annie Golightly - Injun Records - SIGNED

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The Faces of Annie Golightly
"The Singing Savage"

SIGNED

Injun Records, Fort Worth, Texas, 1979, AG-001

Condition of jacket: Very good, with some very light rubbing and ring wear. Signed on front, "Good wishes to you Gary, Annie Golightly".

Condition of record: Excellent, very glossy, appears essentially as new with only some extremely slight scuffing on Side 1.

Side One:
1. Grandma's Feather Bed
    Country Girl
2. Fancy
3. There's More on the Way
4. I Got the World in a Jug
5. Mother's Reflections
 
Side Two:
1. Red River (Medley)
2. Reckon I'm a Texan
3. Wayward Wind
4. Uncle Harvey's Airplane
5. Maria

From the back of the jacket:
When Annie Golightly sings something humorous, such as "Grandma's Feather Bed," or loving, as reflected in "Fancy" and "Mother's Reflections," listeners are treated to more than a lyric.

They hear a story. The story may be laced with laughter — "Uncle Harvey's Airplane" would make the Sphinx chuckle — or tears. But the effect is of human emotion laid bare by a voice that knows whereof it sings.

Annie Golightly's own hving experiences run a full scale of emotion — from Texas schoolgirl to teenaged wife to young widow with five children. Her voice is a harp that sends its strings to peaks and valleys as a sounding board for everything she feels.

Here, then, in "The Faces of Annie Golightly," are the fun days of growing up. They are, in the main, songs for mothers and fathers, and grandparents. "There's More on the Way" tells the world that having children, and having children who have children, is a thrill.

Annie is half Cherokee Indian, thus her marquee billing as "The Singing Savage." Well, she's the "Singing Pussycat" too, on such rollicking tunes as "Thank God I'm a Country Girl" and "I've Got the World in a Jug."

There is a happy, vibrant quality to songs as Annie sings them. She does much of her singing nowadays in her own Fort Worth club, and audiences often break into song with her. They are moved by her personal magnetism, and by subtle phrasing that changes from joyous to thoughtful to whimsical to solemn, almost in the same breath. It is a talent rarely found. It is a gift always coveted.

Annie remembers singing with the jukebox in Bennett's Coffee Shop in Commerce, Texas. She was a teenager waiting tables after school. The pay was $15 for a 54-hour week. It makes a girl try harder!

Her songs don't cater to The System or Big Brother.

"The things I feel," she explains, "make me a nonconformist;" meaning hers is a style of independence and freedom. It is relaxed. She sings her story to YOU. Sometimes happy. Occasionally pensive. Rarely sad. And always tasteful.

If Annie Golightly has a credo to live by it is: "If you give out happiness, you won't get sadness back."

If you're a parent, or like children, or admire good singing and good music, "The Faces of Annie Golightly" is for you.

Sit back, relax, and hear a little happiness.

- Jim Trinkle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram