Answers on the t'interweb please.

Posted by Oeufman on 7 January 2008 - 11:09pm.

Thanks to the worthies (Wordies? No. Maybe not.) at this magazine and the jolly nice people who contribute regularly to this blog, I have discovered two artists I wouldn't have gone out of my way to find, and hey, wouldn't you know it, there's room in the collection for more of the same.

The songs in question were Brenda Holloway's 'When I'm Gone' and Evie Sands 'I Can't Let Go' (Thanks again Colonel).

So, a request; if I like these (and I do, I do), can anyone suggest what the best follow-up purchases for these artists should be, and secondly, who else should I be listening to?

Before you ask, yes, I know where Amazon and HMV are, but I trust you more than them...

Ta muchly in advance.

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Brenda Holloway

Brenda Holloway was described by Barry White as "the greatest female soul singer who ever lived" and who are we to argue with The Walrus.
She was Motown's great lost opportunity. A great singer and the most glamorous and sexy girl on Motown's books. Trouble was she was from Watts, LA and refused to move to Detroit so she was largely ignored by the writers and producers who were concentrating their efforts on the big local acts - Four Tops, Supremes, Temptations etc. (although Smokey Robinson tossed her a few morsels, not least When I'm Gone). She was also a pretty good songwriter too - she wrote You Made Me So very Happy. Fed up with not getting many releases and the general drift of what was happening in the music business (i.e. drugs) she packed it all in in 1968, married a priest and spent the next twenty years raising a family before coming back in the late '80s with a gospel album.
Brenda Holloway: The Motown Anthology does what it says on the tin and is available at the i-tunes store.
Evie Sands recorded for Leiber & Stoller's Red Bird Records in the '60s though the only songs I know are I Can't Let Go, Take Me For A Little While and the great Picture Me Gone (but avoid the inferior re-make of this at the i-tunes store).
Happy hunting.

Richard Lowe | 8 January 2008 - 11:06am

Thanks

Richard, just the kind of in-depth resume I was hoping for.

I've seen the Sands stuff on i-Tunes and wasn't overly impressed (Colonel Pleasure helpedme out with 'I can't Let Go' which seems to be unavailable almost everywhere. I'll take a look at the Holloway anthology though.

Thanks again.

Oeufman | 8 January 2008 - 1:50pm