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(1959-69 'Duke') (72:50/26) Into the 60s with Bobby Bland and some of the finest... more

Bobby 'Blue' Bland: The Voice - Duke Recordings 1959 - 1969 (CD)

(1959-69 'Duke') (72:50/26)
Into the 60s with Bobby Bland and some of the finest material and arrangements in soul music from the best voice in town.

Continuing the Bobby Bland story, we have another 26 sides from the finest of all blues singers, this time dating from 1959-1969, and what could be defined as his soul sides. Bobby Bland covers the whole gamut of blues, R&B and soul on this compilation, with Joe Scott's arrangements spicing the proceedings with the odd flash of jazzy horn parts. But it's that voice that holds it all down, with such apparent effortlessness, whether it be on the melancholic 'Who Will The Next Fool Be', or rocking out on 'Turn On Your Lovelight'. All of Bland's major singles are here, alongside a few more obscure titles, like the idiosyncratic 'Blue Moon' and the title track of his most well known album, 'Two Steps From The Blues'. A veritable feast of goodies for lovers of soul, R&B, or just downright great music. File under Essential.

Article properties: Bobby 'Blue' Bland: The Voice - Duke Recordings 1959 - 1969 (CD)

  • Interpret: Bobby 'Blue' Bland

  • Album titlle: The Voice - Duke Recordings 1959 - 1969 (CD)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Ace Records

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  • EAN: 0029667132329

  • weight in Kg 0.107
Bland, Bobby 'Blue' - The Voice - Duke Recordings 1959 - 1969 (CD) CD 1
01 Who Will The Next Fool Be Bobby 'Blue' Bland
02 I Pity The Fool Bobby 'Blue' Bland
03 Don't Cry No More Bobby 'Blue' Bland
04 Ain't That Loving You Bobby 'Blue' Bland
05 I'm Not Ashamed Bobby 'Blue' Bland
06 Cry, Cry, Cry Bobby 'Blue' Bland
07 I'll Take Care Of You Bobby 'Blue' Bland
08 Call On Me Bobby 'Blue' Bland
09 Blue Moon Bobby 'Blue' Bland
10 Turn On Your Love Light Bobby 'Blue' Bland
11 Stormy Monday Blues Bobby 'Blue' Bland
12 Ain't Nothing You Can Do Bobby 'Blue' Bland
13 Ain't Doing Too Bad Part 1 Bobby 'Blue' Bland
14 Sometimes You Gotta Cry A Little Bobby 'Blue' Bland
15 Ain't No Telling Bobby 'Blue' Bland
16 Yield Not To Temptation Bobby 'Blue' Bland
17 I'm Too Far Gone Bobby 'Blue' Bland
18 These Hands Bobby 'Blue' Bland
19 Good Time Charlie Part 1 Bobby 'Blue' Bland
20 Ask Me `Bout Nothin' Bobby 'Blue' Bland
21 Share Your Love With Me Bobby 'Blue' Bland
22 That Did It Bobby 'Blue' Bland
23 Shoes Bobby 'Blue' Bland
24 Back In The same Old Bag Again Bobby 'Blue' Bland
25 Chains Of Love Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Bobby Blue Bland Along about 1959, the Duke Records braintrust astutely recognized that Bobby... more
"Bobby 'Blue' Bland"

Bobby Blue Bland

Along about 1959, the Duke Records braintrust astutely recognized that Bobby 'Blue' Bland had serious potential to cross over into the pop realm and make a much bigger splash than he already had in the blues and R&B arenas. The Rosemark, Tennessee native's melismatically enriched vocal style always got him over very well with the ladies, despite his not being a particularly agile presence onstage. Thanks to his wonderfully warm pipes, he didn't need to be 

It had taken Bland awhile to break through to the big time. He'd been recording for Duke since 1952, when it was still located in Memphis and before Houston entrepreneur Don Robey took the imprint over. Bland's impassioned wails and Duke's scorching house band had combined to cut some spectacular swinging blues sides, but Bobby didn't crack the R&B charts until 1957 with Farther Up The Road (see Disc Five).  Bland's artistic focus was steadily evolving, thanks to Duke in-house trumpeter/arranger/A&R man Joe Scott, who served as his mentor.

"He was just a gift from God, Joe Scott, because he taught me and everybody that was around the Duke label," says Bobby. "Joe Scott picked some good stories for me to tell, because he saw that I was a good storyteller if I had the lyrics. Not the long, drawn-out lyrics. Just make 'em short and to the point and leave some opening for ad-libbing, whatever your idea would be. 

Bobby's high-flying vocal range deepened when he underwent a tonsillectomy. "I wasn't able to hit a falsetto type like I had been singing in earlier years, after the operation with the tonsils. So it kind of lowered my voice," says Bland, who adopted a favorite vocal move of a famous singing preacher as his new trademark. "I was listening to 'The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest' by the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and I heard the squall in there. So I worked on it for about four or five days and developed it. It gave me a different Bobby Bland." He utilized that squall unforgettably on his spine-chilling 1958 hit Little Boy Blue.

When Bobby crooned Brook Benton's sedate ballad I'll Take Care Of You and blasted up to #2 on the R&B hit parade in early '60, it appeared he was leaving the blues behind. But Bland happily reverted to his roots on I Pity The Fool, a loping mid-tempo blues punctuated by Wayne Bennett's stinging guitar and a six-piece horn section led by Scott (Bobby's rhythm section consisted of pianist Teddy Reynolds, bassist Hamp Simmons and drummer John 'Jabo' Starks). The song was waxed on November 12, 1960 in Chicago, while Bland's contingent was on tour. Originally credited to Robey under his Deadric Malone sobriquet but probably written by Houston singer Joe Medwick Veasey, who also co-penned Farther Up The Road (Robey was in the habit of buying songs outright), I Pity The Fool catapulted to the top of the R&B charts and made a solid #46 pop showing.

"Joe Medwick, he did some hell of a writing when he did all those tunes," says former Duke house guitarist Texas Johnny Brown.

"Joe (Scott) found that, really," says Bobby. "It was a good change. I always had some good writers after I got my first record out there, and writers started pinpointing on what would be good for Bobby Bland: 'I'm going to write this particular tune.' It was a big thing for me."

Bland was by now a leading luminary on the R&B circuit with major pop appeal and would remain so on Duke into 1972. His non-stop litany of smashes included the gospel-fueled Turn On Your Love Light (1961) and Yield Not To Temptation (1962) as well as a lights-out '62 revival of T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday Blues and the pop-oriented double-sided 1963 smash That's The Way Love Is b/w Call On Me

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois 

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Tracklist
Bland, Bobby 'Blue' - The Voice - Duke Recordings 1959 - 1969 (CD) CD 1
01 Who Will The Next Fool Be
02 I Pity The Fool
03 Don't Cry No More
04 Ain't That Loving You
05 I'm Not Ashamed
06 Cry, Cry, Cry
07 I'll Take Care Of You
08 Call On Me
09 Blue Moon
10 Turn On Your Love Light
11 Stormy Monday Blues
12 Ain't Nothing You Can Do
13 Ain't Doing Too Bad Part 1
14 Sometimes You Gotta Cry A Little
15 Ain't No Telling
16 Yield Not To Temptation
17 I'm Too Far Gone
18 These Hands
19 Good Time Charlie Part 1
20 Ask Me `Bout Nothin'
21 Share Your Love With Me
22 That Did It
23 Shoes
24 Back In The same Old Bag Again
25 Chains Of Love