Billy Bland Let The Little Girl Dance (CD)

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(Ace Records) 29 tracks A large, jovial, friendly man, Billy now runs a soul food... more

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Billy Bland: Let The Little Girl Dance (CD)

(Ace Records) 29 tracks

A large, jovial, friendly man, Billy now runs a soul food restaurant in Harlem, where the juke box holds many of his Old Town singles. When a contingent of English R&B fans descended on the restaurant one summer evening in 1989 he was delighted to talk about his thirty-five year career in the music business and about the days when he was a star, touring with all the big names of rhythm & blues and appearing at the Apollo Theatre and elsewhere. As he talked he punctuated his reminiscences with musical illustrations from the juke box. Those recordings, collected together on this CD, are Billy Bland's musical legacy. ...(Tony Collins 1992)

The alternative take of 'Let The Little Girl Dance' are issued for the first time ever on this CD.

Article properties: Billy Bland: Let The Little Girl Dance (CD)

Interpret: Billy Bland
Album titlle: Let The Little Girl Dance (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667137027
weight in Kg 0.107

Bland, Billy - Let The Little Girl Dance (CD) CD 1
01	Let The Little Girl Dance	Billy Bland
02	Chicken Hop	Billy Bland
03	Grandma Gave A Party	Billy Bland
04	The Fat Man	Billy Bland
05	Pardon Me	Billy Bland
06	I Had A Dream	Billy Bland
07	Chicken In The Basket	Billy Bland
08	You Were Born To Be Loved	Billy Bland
09	Harmony	Billy Bland
10	Can't Stop Her From Dancing	Billy Bland
11	Momma Stole The Chicken	Billy Bland
12	Flo-Open The Door	Billy Bland
13	What's That	Billy Bland
14	Oh, You For Me	Billy Bland
15	If I Could Be Your Man	Billy Bland
16	Everything That Shines Ain't Gold	Billy Bland
17	Make Believe Lover	Billy Bland
18	My Heart Is On Fire	Billy Bland
19	Steady Kind	Billy Bland
20	Uncle Bud	Billy Bland
21	Keep Talkin' That Sweet Talk	Billy Bland
22	You Took My Love For Granted	Billy Bland
23	Little Boy Blue	Billy Bland
24	I Cross My Heart	Billy Bland
25	I Spend My Life Loving You	Billy Bland
26	All I Want To Do Is Cry	Billy Bland
27	How Many Hearts	Billy Bland
28	Do The Bug With Me	Billy Bland
29	Let The Little Girl Dance	Billy Bland

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"Billy Bland"

Billy Bland

Let The Little Girl Dance

Billy Bland

Let The Little Girl Dance

This was the golden era of the New York indie record scene. In the days before it was overtaken by accountants and MBAs, the business was full of Runyonesque characters, like Hymie Weiss, the owner of Old Town Records. "I was the payola king of New York," Weiss proudly boasted later. "Payola was the greatest thing in the world. You didn't have to go out to dinner with someone and kiss their ass. Just pay them, here's the money, play the record, fuck you." One beneficiary of Weiss’ largesse (to the dee-jays… if not to him) was Billy Bland.

Born April 5, 1932, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Bland was the youngest of 19 children. He reported to Wayne Jancik that he made a record of Mairzy Doats back home before moving to New York in 1947. A protégé of Jubilee Records’ star Edna McGriff, he landed gigs with Lionel Hampton and Buddy Johnson (which probably meant he was on the same bill as Hamp and Johnson). Bland started his own group, the Four Bees, and, in 1954, they were brought to New Orleans by Fats Domino’s producer, Dave Bartholomew, who gave him a song he’d written, Toy Bell, that later, of course, became My Ding-A-Ling.

Bland signed with Old Town in 1955 and songs like Chicken Hop did well enough regionally for Weiss to keep the faith. Bland’s big hit Let The Little Girl Dance, was recorded in late 1959 and became a hit the following year. He told John Broven that he went to the studio to do a session for the song’s writer, Henry Glover, and Titus Turner was there singing Let The Little Girl Dance. Bland showed Turner how to phrase it, and Glover preferred Bland’s version because it sounded like Clyde McPhatter. The Miller Sisters, who sang backup on Turner’s We Told You Not To Marry, also sang backup here. The band included Buddy Lucas on sax, Mickey Baker on guitar, Bland’s guitarist Tommy Ace on bass, and Rod Porter on drums. Bland eventually retired from performing in the 1970s, and was last seen running a soul food restaurant in Harlem.

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