LITTLE WILLIE JOHN-RARE KING CROWNLESS BLACK LABEL 691

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LITTLE WILLIE JOHN-RARE KING CROWNLESS BLACK LABEL 691!


A VG ORIGINAL LP ON KING 691

A MONO DEEP GROOVE PRESSING FROM 1960 WITH CROWNLESS BLACK LABEL

12 TRACKS INCLUDING NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD, THE NEW THING, DO YOU LOVE ME, LEAVE MY KITTEN ALONE, WRITE ME A LETTER, MADE FOR ME

COVER WITH RUB AND RING WEAR. A DISCOLORED AREA UPPER LEFT CORNER FRONT. BOTTOM SPLIT ABOUT HALF WAY. TOP SPLIT ABOUT THREE INCHES SLEEVE SIDE. CORNERS ROUGH.

SOME LIGHT SPINDLE RUB MARKS AROUND HOLE. VINYL WITH ASSORTED LIGHT AND FINE MOSTLY SURFACE LINES. I'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP ON THE VPI TURNTABLE AND THERE IS SOME LIGHT SURFACE NOISE THROUGHOUT, NOT A DISTRACTION, BUT PRESENT.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Biography
by John Floyd
He's never received the accolades given to the likes of Sam Cooke, Clyde McPhatter, and James Brown, but Little Willie John ranks as one of R&B's most influential performers. His muscular high timbre and enormous technical and emotional range belied his young age (his first hit came when he was 18), but his mid-'50s work for Syd Nathan's King label would play a great part in the way soul music would sound. Everyone from Cooke, McPhatter, and Brown to Jackie Wilson, B.B. King, and Al Green has acknowledged his debt to this most overlooked of rock and soul pioneers. His debut recording, a smoking version of Titus Turner's "All around the World" from 1955, set the pattern for a remarkable string of hits: "Need Your Love So Bad," "Suffering with the Blues," "Fever," "Let Them Talk," and his last, "Sleep," from 1961. His version of "Fever" was copied note for note by Peggy Lee and Elvis Presley, both of whom had bigger hits with it; John's version, however, remains definitive. His second hit, "Need Your Love So Bad," contains one of the most intimate, tear-jerking vocals ever caught on tape.

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