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(1999/Westside) 24 tracks - Recorded for the 'Ace' label in Jackson, Mississippi! With the... more

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Charles Brown: Blue Over You (CD)

(1999/Westside) 24 tracks - Recorded for the 'Ace' label in Jackson, Mississippi! With the exception of four tracks these recordings were previously unreleased.

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Interpret: Charles Brown
Album titlle: Blue Over You (CD)
Label WESTSIDE
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0614475036107
weight in Kg 0.1

Brown, Charles - Blue Over You (CD) CD 1
01	Blue Over You	Charles Brown
02	Love's Like A River	Charles Brown
03	Black Night	Charles Brown
04	I Wanna Go Home (& AMOS MILBURN)	Charles Brown
05	There Is No Greater Love	Charles Brown
06	Lost In A Dream	Charles Brown
07	Merry Christmas Baby #2	Charles Brown
08	Educated Fool (& AMOS MILBURN)	Charles Brown
09	Cloudy	Charles Brown
10	Please Come Home For Christmas #2	Charles Brown
11	Driftin' Blues	Charles Brown
12	Too Late To Cry Anymore	Charles Brown
13	Lost In A Fog	Charles Brown
14	Educated Fool (master)(& AMOS MILBURN)	Charles Brown
15	Let's Just Be Friends	Charles Brown
16	Don't Cry	Charles Brown
17	So Much To Remember You By	Charles Brown
18	Sing My Blues Tonight	Charles Brown
19	Black Night (instrumental)	Charles Brown
20	I Wanna Go Home (instrumental)	Charles Brown
21	Trouble Blues (instrumental)	Charles Brown
22	Please Come Home For Christmas #2 (instr.)	Charles Brown
23	Driftin' Blues (instrumental)	Charles Brown
24	Merry Christmas Baby (instrumental)	Charles Brown

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Charles Brown and His Band

After tearing up the postwar R&B charts with their mellow, cosmopolitan brand of West Coast club blues, pianist and front man Charles Brown came to a parting of the ways with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Moore's brother, the equally dazzling guitarist Oscar Moore, joined the act in 1947). The Blazers' personal hit parade for the Exclusive label included Sunny Road, New Orleans Blues, and the immortal Yuletide perennial Merry Christmas Baby, but they broke up nonetheless.

"Johnny Moore got so greedy. They took a lot of money that was supposed to divide and brought home, but he left us out of the picture, Eddie Williams and I, who was the bass player. So it became a problem, not getting along, and I decided to quit," said Brown. "I left them in '48 and organized my own group, called Charles Brown & The Smarties. I went back to Aladdin Records."

The hits came immediately for Brown at Aladdin: Get Yourself Another Fool and the R&B chart-topping Trouble Blues in 1949 and the mournful Black Night, cut December 21, 1950 at Radio Recorders in L.A. with Jesse Ervin's guitar work solidly in the Moore tradition, were among the biggest. Penned by L.A. female songsmith Jessie Mae Robinson, Black Night paced the R&B hit parade for 14 weeks in 1951. "Everything I was doing was a big hit with them," said Charles of his Aladdin hookup. But the good times didn't last. Brown took his final bow on the R&B charts for almost a decade the next year (a holiday offering, Please Come Home For Christmas, brought him back briefly in 1960), and a 1958 dispute with his booking agency laid him low for years as a live act.

"I became a scab musician," he explained. "I couldn't work in no place unless I paid the union. Well, I couldn't work because I didn't have nobody booking me. So I went into seclusion. That's how I came off the scene." The drought ended during the '80s, when Europe began to beckon. Then in 1990, Bonnie Raitt booked Charles as her opening act. "That really started the ball rolling for me," he said.

Brown died January 21, 1999 after a full decade back in the spotlight. "I did do something that I thought was part of me, and that the people recognize," Brown said. "I can go to my grave thinking that I did do something that got recognition."

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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