Artist: Anna King
Album: Back To Soul
Bitrate: 130kbps avg
Label: RPM Records
Genre: Soul
Size: 30 megs
Playtime: 0h 30min 58sec total
Rip date: 2006-04-12
Store date: 2006-00-00
Track List:
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01. Make Up Your Mind 2:47
02. Come On Home 2:16
03. Sittin' In The Park 2:16
04. That's When I Cry 2:20
05. I Found You 2:27
06. I Don't Want To Cry 2:38
07. If Somebody Told you 2:59
08. Night Time Is The Right Time 3:13
09. Tennessee Waltz 3:04
10. Come And Get These Memories 2:27
11. If You Don't Think 1:58
12. Baby Baby Baby (Duet With Baby 2:33
Bird)
Release Notes:
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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.