Lou Johnson – Incomparable Soul Vocalist – Big Top Recordings CD (Kent)

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1. Reach Out For Me
2. The Last One To Be Loved
3. Please, Stop The Wedding
4. The Panic Is On
5. No Other Guy
6. Unsatisfied
7. Magic Potion
8. Park Avenue
9. (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
10. If I Never Get To Love You
11. It Ain’t No Use
12. Walk On By
13. A Time To Love – A Time To Cry
14. Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha)
15. Thank You Anyway (Mr D.J.)
16. What Am I Crying For
17. Wouldn’t That Be Something
18. You Better Let Him Go
19. Who Is It Now
20. Just Be A Woman
21. Any Time
22. This Night
23. Little Girl
24. Love Build A Fence
25. Unsatisfied (Alt Take And Extended)
26. If I Never Get To Love You

Weight 120 g
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Incomparable Soul Vocalist – Big Top Recordings

Artist

Lou Johnson

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Lou Johnson cut a CDs worth of great NYC Brill Building and 1650 Broadway soul, mainly ballads, for the rich and successful Big Top label. His work is as good as any singer of the era and he also happens to be compiler Harboro Horace’s favourite vocalist of all time; Lou’s talents are quite rightly praised to the hilt.

On this CD we have every known Big Top recording, including five unreleased acetates and a non 45 LP track from an album that was never officially released.

There is the original and a great previously unheard vocal take of Lou’s Northern Soul dance classic ‘Unsatisfied’. Plus his stunning original version of Roy Hamilton’s revered 45 ‘The Panic Is On’ which outshines even that great record.

Writers Bacharach and David used Lou for the male interpretations of their great 60s soul ballads which were often hits for Dionne Warwick. Lou’s more uncompromising style meant they didn’t sell so spectacularly but they were more than the equal in performance. ‘Reach Out For Me’, ‘The Last One To Be Loved’ and ‘Kentucky Bluebird (Message To Martha)’ are taken to another level of artistry and emotion.

Unheralded song-writing team Giant, Baum and Kaye, who had considerable success with Elvis Presley, provide the majority of the songs. Their relationship with Lou was the artistic high point of both participants’ careers.

Several years in the making, this compilation is a must for every serious soul fan and every lover of 60s soulful vocals on impeccably crafted songs.- Ace Records

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