The James Brown Revue has included numerous 'feature' female singers through the decades, from Tammy Montgomery(Terrell), Sugar Pie DeSanto and Vicki Anderson to Yvonne Fair and Lynn Collins, but while Mr Brown included most of these ladies in 'live' LPs, and others had solo contracts with his label, only Anna King enjoyed the privilege of James Brown producing an album by her.
It was 1963, and Brown had just signed with Smash Records to score a big pop hit with 'Out of Sight'. He noted the quality of Anna's voice, had her sign with Smash and produced the "Back To Soul" LP. The album includes Anna's distinctive versions of several soul and blues hits and some Brown originals written under various pseudonyms, plus a storming duet with Bobby Byrd, 'Baby Baby Baby', which took her into the R&B top 50 early in 1964 and 'bubbling under' the Billboard Hot 100.
Thus with Anna's stirring, soulful vocals, a range of familiar songs, the support of the James Brown Band and the production skills of Mr Brown himself, "Back To Soul" was a notable album release on UK Philips in 1964, though it enjoyed but modest sales to the avid soul fans of the day.Consequently it has long been a rare collectors' item, a situation which will be remedied by its long-awaited re-issue on Shout!.
This collectable album has never been reissued and hence this is the first time on CD.
1. Make Up Your Mind
2. Come on Home
3. Sittin' in the Dark
4. That's When I Cry
5. I Found You
6. I Don't Want to Cry
7. If Somebody Told You
8. Night Time Is the Right Time
9. Tennessee Waltz
10. Come and Get These Memories
11. If You Don't Think
12. Baby Baby Baby - Bobby Byrd, Anna King
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Anna King - Back To Soul
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Anna King and the Jam? We're having a drink in your honor in Brooklyn right now (5:15 pm, Tues). Thanks for sharing man. And if you have the time, please check us out and drop us a line — tapeyoucertainsongs AT gmail DOT com and tapeyoucertainsongs.blogspot.com/ — we'd love to post a mix if you'd care to contribute one.
Hey guys...hope that drink was a Guinness and not some chemically enhanced psuedo beer ;-)
Checked your site and the mix tape sounds interesting, will bring me back to those days before CD's when I'd sit for hours in front of the hi-fi with all my vinyl spread out around me, spliff in hand and a few blank C90's ready to be filled with some sweet sounds....wicked. Check your mailbox, I dropped you a line. Keep The Faith!
do you have another link for this?
i'd really love to listen to it, it would be much apreciated
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