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Ruth Brown (voc) & var. bands
Once fired from Lucky Millinder's band, it was the
great Duke Ellington who recommended Ruth Brown
to Herb Abramson and his fledgling Atlantic
Records in 1949. Good thing, too, because it was
Ruth Brown who put Atlantic on the map, make no
mistake. She did that with 24 R&B hit singles from
1949 to 1960, five of which crossed over to the
Billboard Pop charts.
Ruth Brown's second LP is a minor masterpiece,
built around a handful of hit singles and B-sides
from the prior year ('Book of Lies', 'Just Too
Much', 'When I Get You Baby', 'This Little Girl's
Gone Rockin'', 'Why Me') and containing a pair of
current single sides, 'Jack O' Diamonds' and 'I
Can't Hear a Word You Say'. Brown is amazing in
her range, from the upbeat, romantic 'I Hope We
Meet (On the Road Someday)' to the jaunty shouter
'Why Me' -- her timbre ranges from sweetly
romantic to hard and raspy, and listening to the
transformations, between the smooth, quick tempo
'Just Too Much' to the hard, lusty 'Somebody
Touched Me', one thinks of a distaff Sam Cooke.
Brown's accompaniments may have lacked the polish
of Cooke's sides, and she wasn't really shooting
for pop-crossover success (though she saw some).
Her singing even overcomes excessively
pop-oriented arrangements on 'When I Get You
Baby'. At various times, in her upper register,
Brown recalls Clyde McPhatter's falsetto singing,
while in her middle and lower registers, as on 'I
Can't Hear a Word You Say', she comes up with a
power that could melt a microphone stand.
Bruce Eder/AMG
Format: 1LP 180g 33rpm / standard sleeve
Release date: 04.07.2018
Manufacturer: Pure Pleasure
Original label: Atlantic
Genre: Pop
Kat.č.: PP 18026 (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 899.00 Kč, EAN: 5060149622759 skladem: 1-5ks, expedujeme do 2 dnů