MISS ETTA JAMES 1950s tracks on 1961 Crown LP / Listen
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MISS ETTA JAMES
1961 Crown LP
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]
Once she started having hits on Argo, Crown / Modern pulled together this Lp to cash in. The sides here are all from '55 – '57 and are simply tremendous! You'll get her hits of the day, and some surprises too. Most unusual is that this Lp seems to actually be a good pressing on decent vinyl. So many Crown Lp play like *!&#$# right out of the wrapper.
LISTEN TO PART OF THIS RECORD HERE!
TRACK LISTING:
- Do Something Crazy
- Woman
- My One And Only
- I Hope You're Satisfied
- Good Rockin' Daddy
- Hey Henry !
- Strange Things
- That's All
- How Big A Fool
CONDITION: RECORD & JACKET are VG+ Jacket has had it’s seam splits repaired from the inside.
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