ETTA JAMES At Last (1961) Argo soul 45 / HEAR IT
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ETTA JAMES
January 1961
Few R&B singers have endured tragic travails on the monumental level that Etta James has and remain on earth to talk about it. James has hung in there from the age of R&B and doo wop in the mid-'50s through soul's late-'60s heyday and right up to today.
She was a child gospel prodigy, singing in her Los Angeles Baptist church choir when she was only five years old. She moved to San Francisco in 1950, and when she was 14, bandleader Johnny Otis gave her an audition. He particularly dug their answer song to Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' current hit "Work with Me Annie."
In 1954 she stated recording for Modern Records and placed a pair of songs into the R&B charts in 1955. In 1960, James landed at Chicago's Chess Records, signing with their Argo subsidiary. Immediately, her recording career kicked into high gear. Leonard Chess viewed James as a classy ballad singer with pop crossover potential. But James's rougher side wasn't forsaken. [Bill Dahl, All Music Guide]
This single is from January of 1961 and is a great blusey remake of the old 1942 standard "At Last." It did quite well for Etta, climbing up the R&B charts to #2 while stalling on the pop charts just above #50. It's flipped with another killer remake, Etta's version of the Willie Dixon song "I Just Want To Make Love To You." Those who grew up in the '70s will probably remember Foghat's version of this song.
CONDITION: RECORD IS VG++
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