Marie 'Queenie' Lyons is the sort of artist soul collectors salivate over - she paid her dues on the Southern chitlin' circuit, shared stages with the likes of King Curtis, Jackie Wilson, and James Brown, scored a record deal with the King Records subsidiary DeLuxe Records, and after a few singles cut an album, 1970's Soul Fever, that sank without a trace. Jan 12, 2010 I'm old enough to have seen Jackie Wilson several times in the early/mid 60's at Murray the K's Holday Shows in Brooklyn. No matter who the other performers were on these package shows (and Murray had just about everybody at one time or other), Jackie Wilson ALWAYS closed the show and tore the house down doing so. January 12, 2010 at 5:30 PM.
Living Blues: '.A fine overview of his artistry.' . Tracks of Disc 1. 1. Reet Petite.
2. To Be Loved. 3. Lonely Teardrops. 4. That's Why (I Love You So). 5.
I'll Be Satisfied. 6. You Better Know It. 7. Talk That Talk. 8.
Doggin' Around. 9. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend. 11. Am I The Man. 12.
The Tear of The Year. 13. Please Tell Me Why. 14. I'm Comin' On Back To You.
15. Baby Workout. 16. Whispers (Getting Louder). 17. I Don't Want To Lose You.
18. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher. 19. I Get The Sweetest Feeling. 20. (I Can Feel Those Vibrations) This Love Is Real.Song previews provided courtesy of iTunes.
Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1.
1. Poor Little Fool. 2.
Splish Splash. 4. Hard Headed Woman. 5. Rebel-Rouser. 7.
Yakety Yak. 8. My True Love. 9.
Willie And The Hand Jive. 10. Ginger Bread. 12. Just A Dream. 13. Left Right Out Of Your Heart (Hi Lee Hi Lo Hi Lup Up Up).
14. If Dreams Came True. 15. For Your Precious Love. 16. One Summer Night. 17.
Endless Sleep. 18. Little Star.
19. Everybody Loves A Lover. 20. Do You Want To Dance. 21. Guess Things Happen That Way. 22.
A Certain Smile. 23. Western Movies. 24. The Purple People Eater. 25. What Am I Living For.
Tracks of Disc 2. 1. Born Too Late. 2.
Think It Over. 3. Enchanted Island. 5. Angel Baby.
6. Chantilly Lace. 7. Blue Blue Day. 8. The Freeze.
9. Don't Ask Me Why. 10. Rock-In Robin. 11. No Chemise, Please. 12.
Moon Talk. 13. Somebody Touched Me. 14. That's How Much I Love You.
15. Crazy Eyes For You. 16. Early In The Morning. 17. You Cheated.
18. Come What May.
19. Jeannie Lee. 20.
(It's Been A Long Time) Pretty Baby. 22. I Wonder Why. 23.
Return To Me. 24.
All I Have To Do Is Dream. 25.
Baubles Bangles And Beads. Tracks of Disc 3. 1. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon. 2. Come Closer To Me (Acercate Mas). 3.
Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare). 4. Let's Go Steady For The Summer. 5. You Need Hands. 7. Fool's Paradise.
8. Young And Warm And Wonderful.
9. Over And Over. 10. Itchy Twitchy Feeling. 11.
For Your Love. 12. High School Confidential. 13. You're Making A Mistake. 15. Delicious.
16. Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu). 18.
Don't Go Home. 20. Got A Match. 21. Stupid Cupid. 22.
Hey Girl, Hey Boy. 23. Gotta Have Rain. 24.
Win Your Love For Me. Tracks of Disc 4. 1. Happy Years. 3.
Betty Lou Got A New Pair Of Shoes. 4.
The Bird On My Head. 5. Beautiful Delilah. 7. Blip Blop. 8. Try The Impossible.
9. Summertime Blues. 10. To Be Loved. 11. Jealousy.
12. Just Like The Movies. 13. Blue Boy. 14. The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor.
16. Bird Dog. 17. Are You Really Mine. 18.
She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More). 19. Little Mary. 20. I Believe In You.
21. Little Serenade. 22. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You). 23. Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1.
1. For Your Precious Love. 2. Rough Lover. 3. Your Heart Belongs To Me. 4.
Party Lights. 6.
I'm Waitin' At The Station. 7. Your Wonderful Love. 8.
Letter Full Of Tears. 9. He Will Break Your Heart. 10.
I'll Have To Let Him Go. 11. Having A Party. 12.
Heartbreaking Years. 13. Am I Falling In Love. 14.
Hush Heart. 15. Stranger In My Arms. 16.
Earthquake. 17. Gee Whiz Look At His Eyes. 19. Getting Ready For The Heartbreak.
20. I Let Myself Go. 21. My Man, He's A Lovin' Man. 22. What Can I Do.
23. You Really Got A Hold On Me.
24. Spanish Harlem.
Tracks of Disc 2. 1. These Arms Of Mine. 2. You'll Lose A Good Thing. 3. That's Why (I Love You So).
4. Buttered Popcorn. 6. I Just Want To Make Love To You. 7. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow.
8. This Time Next Summer. 11. Any Other Way. 12. Don't Feel Rained On.
13. We Need Them. 14. You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength. 15.
Honey Bee. 16. I Said I Was Sorry. 17.
Who Wouldn't Love A Man Like That. 18. I Found You. 19. Baby Cakes.
20. Morning, Noon & Night. 21. How Come. 22. I Love The Way You Love.
23. Don't Do This To Me. 24. Hey Fool. 25. Wonderful World.
Tracks of Disc 3. 1.
Every Beat Of My Heart. 2.
Soothe Me. 3. I'll Bring It Home To You.
4. Let's Steal Away. 5. Please Please Please.
6. Love Letters. 7. Seven Day Fool. 8.
You Don't Sleep At Night. 10. He Don't Care About Me.
11. Step Up And Rescue Me. 12. Cry To Me. 13. There He Is.
14. Sea Of Love. 15. I Did My Part.
16. Yes No, Maybe So. 17. It's Mine. 18. Chain Gang.
19. Disappointed In Love. 20. It's Just A Matter Of Time. 21.
I'm On My Way. 22. You Don't Miss Your Water. 23. Mashed Potato Time. 24.
My Heart Belongs To You. 25. Stand By Me. Tracks of Disc 4. 1. Lonely Teardrops. 2.
Letter To Mommy And Daddy. 3. Tear After Tear. 4.
Movin' And A'Groovin'. 6.
Hitch Hike. 7. Your Love Is Important To Me. 8. Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird). 9.
If I Knew. 10. Paradise.
11. See What Tomorrow Brings.
12. Disillusioned.
14. What I Don't Know. 15. No More Heart. 16.
I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You. 17. The Night. 18. I'm Wondering. 19.
Strange Feeling. 20. Cry, Cry, Cry. 21.
You Made A Fool Out Of Me. 22. Two Winters Long. 23. Anything To Say You're Mine.
24. Sweet Little Mama. 25. What's So Good About Good-Bye.
Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1. 1. That'll Be the Day. 2. Hey Baby Let's Go Downtown.
3. Reet Petite. 4. Watch Your Step. 5. This Is It.
6. Ten Little Women. 7.
Early in the Morning. 8. Is That All to the Ball. 9. The Wild One. 10.
Lookie Lookie Lookie. 11. Not Fade Away. 12. Come on Baby. 13.
Hey Ruby. 14. That's Why (I Love You So). 15. Cast Iron Arm. 16.
My Darling Forever. 17. I Wanna Bop. 18.
Listen Kitten. 19. When Sin Stops. 20. When You Ask About Love.
21. Whistle My Love. 22.
Little Ole You. 23.
Sputnick (The Satellite Girl). 24. Wiggle Wiggle. 25. Taste of the Blues. Tracks of Disc 2.
1. Hypnotised. 3. Schoolhouse Rock.
4. Lonely Teardrops. 5. Rockin' on the Moon. 6. You've Got Love.
7. Flip Flop and Fly. 8. Now We're One. 9.
Shake Baby Shake. 10. Little Ditty Baby. 11. Sunshine.
13. Way Out There. 14. My Heart Let Me Be Free. 15. The Way I Am.
16. Don't Cha Know.
17. Maybe Baby. 19. Midnight Monsters Hop. 20. More & More.
21. Jole Blon.
22. Lonely Blue Nights. 24. O Tell Me. 25.
Goodnight Irene. Tracks of Disc 1.
1. Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet). 2. Lonely Teardrops. 3. To Be Loved. 4.
That's Why (I Love You So). 5. I'll Be Satisfied.
6. Doggin' Around. 7. Lonely Life. 8. You Better Know It.
10. Talk That Talk. 11. Am I the Man. 12. I'm Comin' on Back to You. 13.
A Woman Lover Friend. 14. Baby Workout. 15. Squeeze Her Tease Her. 16. No Pity (In the Naked City).
17. Whispers (Getting Louder). 18. I Get the Sweetest Feeling. 19.
Since You Showed Me How to Be Happy. 20. Love Is Funny That Way. 21. Just Be Sincere.
22. Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher. 23.
You Got Me Walking. 24. This Love Is Real (I Can Feel Those Vibrations). Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1. 1. Mack The Knife.
2. Don't You Know.
4. Lonely Boy. 5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
6. Personality. 7. Sixteen Candles. 8.
Charlie Brown. 9. My Happiness. 11. Sea Of Love. 12.
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I. 13. The Big Hurt. 14.
('Til) I Kissed You. 15. Quiet Village. 16. A Teenager In Love.
17. Petite Fleur. 18. Lonely Teardrops.
19. What A Difference A Day Made. 20. I Only Have Eyes For You. 21.
The Three Bells. 23.
Come Softly To Me. 24. There Goes My Baby. 25. Alvin's Harmonica.
Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1. 1.
The Girl Can't Help It. 2.
Why Do Fools Fall In Love. 3. Honey Don't. 4. Splish Splash.
5. Rip It Up. 6. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care. 7. Cool It Baby.
8. Giddy Up A Ding Dong. 9. Ain't That A Shame. 10.
Lonesome Train. 12. Blast Off. 13. La Bamba. 14.
Twenty Flight Rock. 15.
Party Doll. 16. Jailhouse Rock. 17. Great Balls Of Fire.
18. Book Of Love. 19. Rebel Rouser.
20. Made You. Tracks of Disc 2.
1. Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On. 3. Bony Moronie. 4.
Get A Job. 5. Dance To The Bop. 6. Chantilly Lace. 7. I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent.
8. Memphis, Tennessee. 9.
Charlie Brown. 10.
Can't Hardly Stand It. 11. A Teenager In Love. 12.
Tutti Frutti. 13. At The Hop. 14. Lipstick, Powder & Paint. 15. Whole Lotta Loving.
16. Sea Cruise. 17. Somethin' Else. 18.
Hound Dog. 19. The Big Beat. 20. Jack The Ripper.
Tracks of Disc 3. 1. Rock Around The Clock. 2. Bye Bye Love. 3. You Better Know It.
4. Glad All Over. 5. Don't Knock The Rock. 6. Summertime Blues.
7. High School Confidential. 8.
Maybellene. 9. Waitin' In School. 10. Willie And The Hand Jive. 11. Oh, Boy!.
12. The Wanderer. 13.
Your Daddy Wants To Do Right. 14. The Beat Girl Song.
15. She's Got It.
16. Be Bop A Lula. 17. Roll Over Beethoven.
19. Hard Headed Woman. 20. Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay. Tracks of Disc 1. 1. Reet Petite.
2. To Be Loved.
3. We Have Love. 4.
Lonely Teardrops. 5.
That's Why I Love You So. 6. I'll Be Satisfied. 7.
You Better Know It. 8. Talk That Talk. 9. Doggin' Around.
10. A Woman A Lover A Friend. 12. (You Were Made For) All My Love. 13. Am I The Man.
14. Alone At Last. 15. The Tear Of The Year. 16.
My Empty Arms. 17. Please Tell Me Why.
18. Your One And Only Love. 19. I'm Comin' On Back To You. 20. Lonely Life. 21.
You Don't Know What It Means. 22. Years From Now. 23.
The Way I Am. 24. My Heart Belongs To Only You. 25.
The Greatest Hurt. 26. There'll Be No Next Time.
27. I Just Can't Help It.
29. Forever And A Day. Jackie Wilson also appears in this compilation. Tracks of Disc 1. 1. Do You Love Me. 2.
Come To Me. 3. That's Why (I Love You So). 4. Move Two Mountains. 5. Way Over There.
6. Let Me Go The Right Way.
7. I'm Wandering.
8. Please Forgive Me. 9. I'll Be Satisfied.
10. Dream Come True.
11. Money (That's What I Want).
12. Camel Walk. 13. Ain't Gonna Be That Way.
14. I Don't Want To Take A Chance. 15.
Won't You Take Me Back. 16. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide. 17.
All I Could Do Was Cry. 18.
I Need You. 19. Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right. 20. To Be Loved. Tracks of Disc 2.
1. Reet Petite. 2. Shop Around. 3. Buttered Popcorn.
'I Who Have Nothing', front cover of the Portuguese EP, 1969Linda Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey, on January 14, 1944, and she first sang in public in her hometown at the age of six. She cut her teeth in church, regularly treading the gospel path as part of The Jones Singers, a group comprised of her whole family.Through this background Linda developed and nurtured her most predominant vocal technique: the melisma, the art of spreading a word or syllable over several rapid notes up and down the scale. In later years she took to singing spirituals every morning to exercise her voice.Linda's childhood was plagued by a severe history of diabetes, and this condition only worsened during her adulthood. Small wonder her artistry reflected the desperate determination to triumph over pain and loneliness.As her prowess developed, she moved towards the secular field, and soon began to accumulate trinkets and trophies from winning a host of talent shows and amateur nights.
A Billboard advert for the 'Hypnotized' single, 1967Over two sessions in New York City, on June 21 and August 4, 1967, Linda cut a total of nine songs. Kerr masterminded the sessions while famed keyboardist provided arrangements. Players like guitarist and drummer added their musical magic and the Poindexter Brothers did all the background vocals.' What Have I Done (To Make You Mad)' was issued in October '67, with ' Make Me Surrender' as its flip, and became another top 10 R&B hit but only struggled to #61 on the Pop listings.
A third single, ' Give My Love a Try' backed with a version of The Soul Sisters' ' I Can't Stand It' was released in January 1968 and enjoyed moderate sales, struggling to #34 R&B and a dismal #93 on Pop. On the strenght of its title track, the ' Hypnotized' album actually made it to the R&B Top 30.Culled from a session recorded earlier during that year, Sammy Turner's ' My Heart Needs a Break' was issued as a single sometimes during Spring '68 backed with ' The Things I've Been Through'. It peaked at #50 in the R&B charts, becoming Linda's final charted entry during her two-year tenure with Loma.On the same session Linda also recorded ' What Can I Do (Without You)', another Turner co-penned tune arranged by Robert Banks (also known for his work at the time with Thelma Jones), and a version of The Beatles' ' Yesterday', which were released as a single in 1968.Linda's last single for Loma consisted of two tracks recorded in August 1968 at Broadway Studios in Manhattan. Side A surprisingly offered Poindexter Brothers' ' It Won't Take Much (To Bring Me Back)' while a stunning version of ' I Who Have Nothing' - previously recorded by the likes of Ben E. King, Dee Dee Warwick and Shirley Bassey - was relegated to the flip side.Unfortunately Loma folded early in 1969. During the same year Warner Brothers released a single with the two songs Linda recorded in March at her last session for the label: ' I Just Can't Live My Life (Without You Babe)', written by George Kerr, backed with ' My Heart (Will Understand)' by Eddie Jones.During the same year, a different version of ' Fugitive From Luv', another song recorded for Loma back in August 1967, was released by Cotique as a split-single which offered Bessie Banks' ' Go Now' on the other side. Linda Jones, promotional picture, circa 1967In mid 1969 George Kerr signed Linda to Neptune, a label owned by Philadelphia's Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff which was the forerunner to the Philadelphia International Records hit factory.
The first Neptune single, ' I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow / That's When I'll Stop Loving You' revealed a more aggressive, even hysterical-sounding vocal.Never a singer noted for restraint, Linda's style became increasingly volatile and fraught with desperation and urgency as her career progressed. Making fewer concessions to the demands of the Top 40 programming, Linda's attack was wildly exuberant, her desperation bearly overwhelming, her phrasing with melismas, shrieks and gasps. Her second and last Neptune release, ' Ooh Baby You Move Me / Can You Blame Me?'
, continued the progression.While ' Hypnotized' found Linda taking a relatively subtle approach to her music, her subsequent sides captured her at full strength, and though soul purists (especially Northern Soul collectors in the U.K.) treasured her records, she never had another major hit.In 1971, by the time she had changed her base from New York to New Jersey to sign with All Platinum's Turbo subsidiary, Linda was in a bad way. Her medical condition was deteriorating as her illness began gaining the upper hand.Aware of her problems, All Platinum's owners Joe and Sylvia Robinson put her on the staff payroll and gave her liberal studio freedom, thus helping to ensure her a reasonable, regular diet to combat the illness. Linda took to going to the studio almost every other day as music was a mean of forgetting the pain she was often in.Despite the dismal sound reproduction of the three Turbo album releases (' A Portrait of Linda Jones', issued early in 1972, and ' Your Precious Love' and ' Let It Be Me', both released the same year after her untimely passing), Linda's frantic overwrought vocals sharply reflected her torment.As Russell Gersten wrote in Rolling Stone, ' Singing became a life and death matter for Linda at her last few recording sessions. Whatever little poise and restraint she at one time had, disappeared.' Gersten also wrote that listening the singer's final sides made him imagine ' someone down on her knees pounding the floor, suddendly jumping up to screech something, struggling to make sense of a desperately unhappy life.' Linda Jones as pictured on the cover of 'Your Precious Love', circa early '70sEarly in 1972, Turbo's single ' Your Precious Love' brought Linda back to both the R&B and Pop charts, Many consider this to be the ultimate rendering of the old hit by Jerry Butler and The Impressions.British critic Ian Hoare regards it as ' the quintessential Deep Soul record', even beating out Lorraine Ellison's masterful ' Stay With Me'.
He accurately describes it as a ' spine-chilling piece of histrionic desolation'. After the song's spoken introduction, which has an intense sermon-like quality, Linda explodes into a one-woman vocal hurricane, the like of which is not to be heard elsewhere.The single entered the charts in February 1972 and began climbing, peaking at just #74 on the Hot 100 and a more respectable #15 in the R&B list.
Linda's diary was full of work and she was actively promoting the single just weeks before she died.After a matinee performance at the Apollo Theatre in New York in March, Linda went to her mother's house in Newark to eat dinner and take a nap before playing her evening show, but when her mother tried to wake her, she discovered Linda had slipped into a diabetic coma. She was rushed to the hospital but she didn't regained consciousness and died on March 14.Because of her remarkable ability to transmute her own pain and suffering into Soul singing of a most astonishing and uncompromising quality, it could be argued that Linda Jones was to Soul what Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Judy Garland were to other forms of music. ' I Who Have Nothing' contains the following tracks:01. I Who Have Nothing (3:03)02. It Won't Take Much (To Bring Me Back) (2:18)03. What Can I Do (Without You) (2:58)04.
Yesterday (2:28)All tracks were remastered in May 2015 and are available in FLAC lossless format or high-quality 320 Kbps MP3 files. Both formats offer complete printable PDF artwork.Please have a look at the comments for the download links.The ' I Who Have Nothing' EP was released in Portugal by Warner Bros. Sometimes in 1969. It combines four tracks that were released the previous year on by Loma; here's some details about them:' is a song based on ' Uno dei tanti' ( One of Many), with music by Carlo Donida and lyrics by Giulio 'Mogol' Rapetti, released by in 1961; the English lyrics for the song were written by, who also produced the 1963 version using the backing track from Joe Sentieri's record. The song was later recorded by the likes of, and.! Strangely enough the label gives a writing credit to a certain James Bryant, uhm.' It Won't Take Much (To Bring Me Back)' is one of the songs penned for Linda by the Poindexter Brothers, Richard and Robert, along with Charles Harper, while ' What Can I Do (Without You)' was written by, a singer who was popular at the end of the '50s.
Both these tunes were A-sides when released as singles in 1968.The EP ends with an unavoidable cover of The Beatles' ', which - according to the Guinness World Records - is the most recorded song in the world. Welcome to Stereo Candies!As an avid music lover I've been purchasing and enjoying records for the most part of my life. In the recent years I've quite appreciated many music blogs, they've been a great source of information about a lot of artists that for some reason I had never got into, or music that I simply didn't know existed.I thought that it was time to give my own contribution, so here I am.
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