LaVern Baker CD: See See Rider - Blues Ballads (CD)

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LaVern Baker: See See Rider - Blues Ballads (CD)

Baker, LaVern - See See Rider - Blues Ballads (CD)

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Interpret: LaVern Baker
Album titlle: See See Rider - Blues Ballads (CD)
Label Collectables
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0090431623121
weight in Kg 0.1

Baker, LaVern - See See Rider - Blues Ballads (CD) CD 1
01	See See Rider
02	You Better Stop
03	He's A Real Gone Guy
04	Story Of My Love
05	You Said
06	I'm Leavin' You
07	Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
08	Trying
09	Half Of Your Love
10	A Little Bird Told Me So
11	Endless Love
12	All The Time
13	I Cried A Tear
14	If You Love Me
15	You're Teasing Me
16	Love Me Right
17	Dix-A-Billy
18	So High, So Low
19	I Waited Too Long
20	Why Baby Why
21	Humpty Dumpty Heart
22	It's So Fine
23	Whipper Snapper
24	St. Louis Blues

LaVern Baker I Cried A Tear Fred Jacobson aka Fred Jay, who’d co-written Chuck... more

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I Cried A Tear

Fred Jacobson aka Fred Jay, who’d co-written Chuck Willis’ What Am I Living For? could almost have sued himself for this lilting ballad. The melodies are very similar, and Reggie Obrecht crafted a very Willis-like arrangement with horns answering the vocals. King Curtis takes the fills, but alto saxophonist Leon Cohen comes soaring in for the break. Recorded in September 1958, it reached #2 on the R&B charts and #6 on the pop charts early the following year. LaVern is often called a pre-Soul diva, but her booming voice and declamatory delivery seemed rooted in the pre-microphone vaudeville era. She would have one more major hit, a revival of See See Rider in 1962, and then in 1965 she parted company with Atlantic Records to join Brunswick.

Shortly thereafter, LaVern disappeared from public view for many years. She was working a stint in the Philippines when her manager dropped her and her husband divorced her, so she stayed on as the entertainment director at a Marine Corps NCO nightclub at the Subic Bay Naval Base. That’s where she remained for 22 years, and didn’t perform in the United States again until she made a surprise appearance at Atlantic’s 40th anniversary bash in 1988 at Madison Square Garden. Acclaim came late in life. She was elected to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and continued performing even after complications from diabetes had caused the amputation of both legs. She died March 10, 1997.

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