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McPhatter Clyde - The Ballads Of Clyde McPhatter (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (4-plated Digipak) with 32-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
We can’t rewrite music history, but we would like to shine a light on a great, influential and underrated artist: Clyde McPhatter.
Whoever is interested in the history of American pop music will know the Drifters and the Dominoes – two formations, characterized and famous for the fantastic voice of the lead singer: Clyde McPhatter.
With two simultaneously released CD documentaries on Bear Family we honor the great life achievement of an important crossover artist, who has significantly influenced genres such as gospel, doo-wop, rhythm & blues and pop.
Our ’Clyde McPhatter Rocks’ CD (Bear Family BCD17614) features Clyde’s rousing up-tempo numbers; now here is the compilation of his most moving ballads on CD, carried by one of the most beautiful black voices of her time!
Extensive liner notes by Chicago expert Bill Dahl, detailed richly illustrated booklet and premier sound quality.Few soulful voices of the 1950s and ’60s could caress a ballad the way Clyde McPhatter did, seemingly without even trying. He could make any song soar heaven-bound with his gospel-soaked curlicues and unpredictable twists and turns, helping greatly to define the concept of soul music. Bear Family’s bountiful collection of the rhythm and blues legend’s ballad output takes an in-depth look at his seminal Atlantic Records years, focusing on his solo period but also including a handful of dreamiest entries as lead singer of The Drifters as well as both sides of his duet single with Ruth Brown. Clyde’s Treasure Of Love, the wrenching Without Love (There Is Nothing), and Just To Hold My Hand were major solo hits for Atlantic. There’s also a generous helping of McPhatter’s subsequent M-G-M and Mercury output. Clyde will always rank with soul music royalty—and these majestic ballads testify as to why he’s such a regal figure.
When Clyde McPhatter died in 1972, impoverished, addicted to alcohol and plagued by depression, the world looked back on a 22-year recording career of an exceptional musician who died at only 39 years of age. At the age of five, he was already singing in the gospel choir of his father, a Baptist preacher in North Carolina. The family eventually moved to New York City, where Clyde formed a gospel formation, the Mount Lebanon Singers, in the late 1940s. As a singer, he won a coveted ’Amateur Night’ trophy at the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem in 1950 and accepted an offer to become the lead tenor singer with Billie Ward & The Dominoes, one of the most popular R&B vocal groups in the entire country.
In 1953, McPhatter parted ways with Ward, was tracked down and signed by Atlantic head, Ahmed Ertegun. Condition: the formation of his own vocal group. The result: The Drifters. But he also left this formation after only a few years and concentrated on a solo career. He recorded the first great achievements, parted with Atlantic Records, switched to M-G-M and later Mercury. But further great successes and especially recognition failed to materialize. Frustrated, he moved to England for two years in 1968, tried an ineffective comeback after his return and died of multiple organ failure on June 13, 1972.
McPhatter left us a magnificent legacy of melancholy ballads. The unique singer truly deserved more recognition during his lifetime!
To complement this compilation of his best ballads, we recommend ’Clyde McPhatter Rocks’ (BCD17614), featuring the outstanding up-tempo songs of Clyde McPhatter. -
Various - Spring Fever – 28 Easter Nuggets For Your Spring Season (CD)
€10,00Quick View1 CD with 16-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 67 minutes.
The second edition on the subject of spring and Easter In Bear Family’s ’Season’s Greetings’ CD series.
This musical journey through time includes selected titles from four decades, springtime songs and popular hits from 1936 to 1963.
Genre-spanning, from jazz and pop to country and R&B to rock ’n’ roll – and always hard on the subject – here the rooster and the hen go crazy, the eggs rock & roll and the Easter bunny dances!
Rock with fiery guitars comes from Vilas Craig, Link Wray and Tina’s former husband, a.o.
Also danceable teen rock can be heard! First and foremost Bobby Rydell with a rare number as well as some Doo Wop groups like The Pentagons and The Velvets.
Speaking of rare, Bear Family also delivers some tracks on CD for the first time this time, including recordings by Ray Coleman, The Jaye Brothers, Al Allen, Jerry Duane and others!
The full-color 16-page booklet includes comments by the producer on each song and, as always, is richly illustrated!Spring Fever
Yes, the spring fever. Everyone feels it, as soon as the first warm sunbeams let nature awake to new life. Good keyword, this compilation also lets us awake to new life, even in Corona times! With these rhythms and the swinging sound, Easter eggs can be painted in no time. Or better yet, shake a leg! It’s Spring Fever!The musical spring
This Bear Family CD has it all again. Once again we deliver a wide musical range from 1936 to 1963. But far from it, the oldest recording is not jazz, it comes from the Dixon Brothers and is pure original Country Blues. Country music in its traditional form is also provided by Bill Wimberly & The Country Rhythm Boys. But also jazz can be heard from such illustrious artists as Django Reinhardt, Ramsey Lewis and the Andrews Sisters.Along with hot rock ’n’ roll and rockabilly rhythms, there’s plenty to discover from pop to twist, including famous artists with rare recordings, such as Pat Boone’s classic ’April Love’, here as a rare film version, or Ray Anthony with the Bookends and his rare twist version of ’Bunny Hop’. With the CD comes a full-color 16-page booklet with accompanying text on the individual songs and artists, written by the producer, as well as many photos and illustrations!
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Dion & The Belmonts - Reunion – Live At The Madison Square Garden 1972 (Käytetty LP/12)
€15,00Quick ViewOrig USA. Gatefold PROMO COPY! White label.
Legendaarinen Madison Square Garden keikka vuodelta 1972.Recorded on June 2, 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York
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Various - Rhythm and Blues Revue / Basin Street (DVD)
€15,00Quick ViewRhythm and Blues Revue (1955) This is a collection of exciting R&B performances from the mid 1950’s, filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City. Every performance is a gem. The genial host, Willie Bryant, keeps things moving and the lowbrow comedy from Nipsey Russell and Mantan Moreland helps create a wonderful ”revue” feel for the show. 71 Minutes Basin Street Revue (1956) More R&B performances from the mid 1950’s, filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City. 41 Minutes.
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Various - Beware of the Sleepwalking Woman (Koko-Mojo Original series) # 26 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe good folks at England’s Koko Mojo Records have assembled the kind of compilation that is almost too delicious for words. Only killer no filler compilation by Little Victor, remastering by Black Shack Recordings, Calw, Germany.
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Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 10 : Eeny Meeny Minie Moe (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewKymmenes ja viimeinen osa! PARASTA sarjaa ikinä.
The incomparable DJ ”Mojo” Man (a.k.a. Little Victor) presents the 10th and final volume of this interesting and very successful series focused on the originators of rock and roll and the very first ”rockers” so to speak, African American artists. This CD sounds like an upgraded and improved modern-day version of the legendary STOMPIN’ and many similar ”unofficial” albums that first made the World aware of so many great forgotten obscure tracks nowadays regarded as ”classic” of the genre. The artwork is simply fantastic and the back of the CD (like all the compilations by the ”Mojo” Man) mentions the original label and catalogue number, so it’s easy for a record collector to score an original copy. Once again too many good songs to mention here. This collection features 28 tracks even if it’s hard for any human mind to remember more than 20 or 24 songs by different artists. It’s really a ”Super Big Gulp” of a record diabolically designed to quench any thirst of any size – even if in real life a ”Big Gulp” drink usually gets flat and warm before you can finish it and the ice already starts melting while you are sipping half-way thru it. It’s another ”All Fine Frame – No Parts Lame” CD but the highlights of this volumes are probably the rare rockin’ version of ”Bloodshot Eyes” that Wynonie Harris re-recorded for Roulette, ”Teenage Party” by Sonny Knight, a black version of ”Raunchy” by Ernie Freeman and the original recording of the Little Richard-style number ”Messing With The Kid” by Junior Wells on Chief Records. Junior is mostly regarded as a bluesman nowadays but he recorded songs in many different styles during his long career. This was his contribution to the rock and roll craze of the late 1950s. Wells recorded this number many times in a more “bluesy” vein and the song is considered a blues standard today.
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Cobb Danny - My Isabella (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewThe First ever solely Danny Cobb album.
This album is presented in a top quality laminated card wallet with a 16 page booklet. A full discography covering all 19 recordings.
The booklet also included 30 photos of original record labels and various advertising of Danny Cobb work. The Cover features a fantastic artist impression of Danny Cobb by Berto Martinez of Spain.
A TOP Quality album of all Danny Cobbs recordings made under his own name on the record labels.
