P.P.ARNOLD Kafunta 1968 UK 1stP Immediate LP EX *Rare*
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Description
ARTIST: P.P.ARNOLD
TITLE: KAFUNTA
LABEL + YEAR: Immediate IMSP 017; 1968, UK 1st Press
CONDITION VINYL: Excellent
CONDITION SLEEVE: Excellent, Gatefold
DESCRIPTION: Pat Arnold (born Patrica Ann Cole, on 3 October 1946, in Los Angeles, California), professionally known as P.P. Arnold, is an American born soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and beyond.
Born into a family of gospel singers, Arnold married early and had two children, working a series of menial jobs until the early 1960s, when Maxine Smith, an ex-girlfriend of her brother, contacted her with an amazing offer. Maxine and her friend Gloria Scott had managed to arrange an audition for three girls to replace the original Ikettes, the dancer/singer troupe that provided vocal and dance accompaniment for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Smith and Scott had been stood up by a third girl, and desperate from someone to make up the trio, Smith contacted Arnold, whom she knew to be a fine singer.
At the audition the three girls were offered the job on the spot, but Smith convinced Arnold to attend a concert in Fresno that night before making a final decision. When she arrived home at 6:00 the next morning, Arnold's furious husband struck her. Arnold left him immediately and, placing her children in the care of her parents, she joined the Turner Revue.
1966 to 1969
After several years touring around the U.S. with the Revue, she came to England in 1966 when the Revue toured there in support of The Rolling Stones. Impressed by her powerful and soulful voice, Mick Jagger convinced Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to sign Arnold to a recording contract with his newly founded Immediate Records record label. Arnold quit the Turner band to remain in London and establish a solo career.
She enjoyed several major British hits on Immediate, including songs written for her by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane from labelmates The Small Faces, who also backed her on several recordings. Arnold also memorably provided backing vocals on the group's major hit "Tin Soldier" as well as touring with them during 1968.
Her first backing band, The Blue Jays, had been inherited from American soul singer Ronnie Jones. This was followed by The Nice, led by Keith Emerson. During this period Pat toured alongside Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Kinks, Blind Faith, David Bowie and many others, and she scored several hits including the original version of the oft-covered song "The First Cut Is The Deepest" and "Angel of the Morning", and the Marriott-Lane song "(If You Think You're) Groovy".
After the messy collapse of Immediate in the late 1960s, Arnold signed a production contract with the Robert Stigwood Organisation and released two singles on the Polydor Records label, produced by Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, but a planned album with Gibb was never completed.
Tracks are: Side 1: LETTER TO BILL; GOD ONLY KNOWS; ELEANOR RIGBY; YESTERDAY; ANGEL OF THE MORNING. Side 2: IT’LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN; AS TEARS GO BY; TO LOVE SOMEBODY; DREAMIN’; WELCOME HOME.
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