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(Ace Records) 24 tracks with 12 page booklet.  - It was a lucky day for music lovers when...more

Johnny Adams: I Won't Cry - The Complete Ric & Ron Singles 1959-1964 (CD)

(Ace Records) 24 tracks with 12 page booklet.
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It was a lucky day for music lovers when Johnny Adams’ songwriter neighbour Dorothy La Bostrie knocked on the young gospel singer’s door and asked if he would consider singing the demos for two R&B songs she was hoping to pitch to record man Joe Ruffino of Ric and Ron Records. One of the songs was ‘I Won’t Cry’, which started the 'Tan Canary' on a career that spanned five decades, gave so much pleasure to fans of New Orleans soul and R&B, and which now features as the title track of a must-have CD.

It was only a local hit, but ‘I Won’t Cry’ set standards for the great music collected in the first-ever compilation to include the A and B-side of all 11 of Adams’ Ric and Ron singles – along with two otherwise unrecorded demos that made their first appearance on a vinyl single in a boxed set of Ric and Rons 45s issued for Record Store Day a couple of years back. It beggars belief that, of these 11, only ‘A Losing Battle’ became a national R&B hit, so high is their overall quality. Ruffino recorded Adams at Cosimo Matassa’s studio with the best musicians the Crescent City had on tap at the time.

Many tracks feature such renowned outfits as Edgar Blanchard’s Gondoliers, Harold Battiste’s A.F.O Studio Combo and individual talents like Mac Rebennack – who also composed several of the best tracks including ‘A Losing Battle’ and its stellar follow-up ‘Showdown’. With arrangements by Battiste and the equally respected Wardell Quezergue, it’s a pity and a surprise that they didn’t reach a greater audience when new. Over 50 years later, original success or failure is somewhat irrelevant. Johnny Adams’ Ric and Ron 45s provided the first steps to success that would eventually arrive at the end of the 60s via recordings such as ‘Release Me’, ‘Reconsider Me’ and a remake of ‘I Won’t Cry’, and are the foundation on which Johnny’s reputation as one of the great New Orleans song stylists rests.
(Tony Rounce)

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  • Album titlle: I Won't Cry - The Complete Ric & Ron Singles 1959-1964 (CD)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Ace Records

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Adams, Johnny - I Won't Cry - The Complete Ric & Ron Singles 1959-1964 (CD) CD 1
01I won't cryJohnny Adams
02Who you areJohnny Adams
03Come onJohnny Adams
04Nowhere to goJohnny Adams
05The bells are ringingJohnny Adams
06Teach me to forgetJohnny Adams
07Someone for meJohnny Adams
08Let the wind blowJohnny Adams
09You can make it if you tryJohnny Adams
10Closer to youJohnny Adams
11Wedding dayJohnny Adams
12Ooh so niceJohnny Adams
13I solemnly promiseJohnny Adams
14Life is just a struggleJohnny Adams
15A losing battleJohnny Adams
16Who's gonna love youJohnny Adams
17ShowdownJohnny Adams
18Tra-la-laJohnny Adams
19Lonely drifterJohnny Adams
20I want to do everything for youJohnny Adams
21Comin' around the mountainJohnny Adams
22Cold cold heartJohnny Adams
23No way out for meJohnny Adams
24Walking the floor over youJohnny Adams
Johnny Adams Reconsider Me Sie nannten Johnny Adams den Tan Canary um seine New... more
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Reconsider Me

Sie nannten Johnny Adams den Tan Canary um seine New Orleans Homebase herum, so lieblich waren seine reichen, polierten Töne. In einer Stadt mit einem musikalischen Vermächtnis, das um den funky Second-Line Parade Beat herum gebaut wurde, war Adams ein klassischer Balladensänger mit einer Multi-Oktavlage, dessen melismatische Pfeifen in der Lage waren, sich in einen tiefen Bariton und dann in ein Falsett mit größter Leichtigkeit zu stürzen.

Geboren am 5. Januar 1932 im Big Easy, bekam der schlanke Adams einen späten Start ins Musikgeschäft, weil er im Dienste des Herrn sang. Sein weltlicher Sprung 1959 erfolgte auf Geheiß seiner Nachbarin, der Komponistin Dorothy LaBostrie (sie hatte die Texte zu Little Richards Tutti-Frutti bereinigt). "Sie wusste immer, dass ich singen kann, also entschied sie sich einfach zu fragen", sagte der verstorbene Adams. Sie schrieb ihm die schmackhafte Ballade I Won't Cry, produziert von einem jungen Mac `Dr. John' Rebennack für Joe Ruffinos Ric-Label. Johnny hatte zum ersten Mal einen lokalen Hit, und weitere feine Ric 45er folgten. "Ich war damals mehr oder weniger nur ein Sänger", sagte er. "Ich war kein Künstler." Ich war nur eine Sängerin." Rebennack war Mitautor der Ray Charles-tinged A Losing Battle, die 1962 die R&B-Charts auf Ric verbeulte.

Adams war Teil eines Crescent City-Kontingents, das im Jahr'63 nach Detroit reiste, um für Berry Gordy vorzusprechen (andere waren Earl King und Chris Kenner). Aber Ruffino hat angeblich eine Klage angedroht und einen Motown-Deal vom Tisch geworfen. Nach Ruffinos Tod ging Johnnys Vertrag an Joe Assunto von Watch Records. Dort belebte er Release Me, einen Country-Klassiker, der 1954 zum ersten Mal für Jimmy Heap erschien. "Wir haben das gerade gehört, zwischen Esther Phillips und Engelbert Humperdinck", sagte Adams. "Wir haben einfach beschlossen, es zu tun." Shelby Singleton's in Nashville ansässiges SSS International Logo nahm es in'68 auf, und Adams schloss sich einer langen Liste von Sängern an, um mit dem Weinenden zu schlagen.

Die gut-zerreißende Soul-Ballade Reconsider Me, geschrieben von den Singleton-Mitarbeitern Mira Smith und Margaret Lewis und geschnitten in Nashville, bewies Johnnys größten SSS-Hit und segelte auf Platz 8 R&B und Platz 28 Pop. "Diese Damen haben damals viel für Jo Jo Jo Benson und Peggy Scott geschrieben", sagte Adams. "Du weißt schon, Country-Songs in Blues verwandeln." Lewis und Smith lieferten auch seinen nächsten Hit, I Can't Be All Bad.

Ab 1983 erreichte Johnny eine neue Zielgruppe bei Rounder Records. Er gab die Liederbücher von Percy Mayfield und Doc Pomus in Albumlänge ab und vertiefte sich exquisit in kontrastierendes Blues- und Jazzmaterial, ohne jemals zu schwanken. "Sie haben eine ganze Menge New Orleans-Musik", begründete Adams. "Ich versuche, meine anders zu machen, wenn ich kann." Prostatakrebs tötete ihn am 14. September 1998.

- Bill Dahl -

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