The Corsairs What's My Age Now?? (CD)

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(Foot Tapping Records) 14 tracks - real slappin' neo rockabilly covers of pop/rock hits plus... more

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The Corsairs: What's My Age Now?? (CD)

(Foot Tapping Records) 14 tracks - real slappin' neo rockabilly covers of pop/rock hits plus original material. Great 'double bass' party album from Oxford. (forget the cover)

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Interpret: The Corsairs
Album titlle: What's My Age Now?? (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Foot Tapping Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5060055810707
weight in Kg 0.1

Corsairs, The - What's My Age Now?? (CD) CD 1
01	They Took My Life Away	The Corsairs
02	What's My Age Now??	The Corsairs
03	Tears Of A Clown	The Corsairs
04	Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	The Corsairs
05	Slip Through My Fingers	The Corsairs
06	Only Want To Be With You	The Corsairs
07	Madness	The Corsairs
08	Border Radio	The Corsairs
09	There's Only One Girl Like You	The Corsairs
10	24-7	The Corsairs
11	First Time	The Corsairs
12	I Cann See Clearly Now	The Corsairs
13	It's All About You	The Corsairs
14	Hangin' On The Telephone	The Corsairs

The Corsairs The Corsairs Featuring The Voice of Jay 'Bird' Uzzell Smoky Places Phil... more

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"The Corsairs"

The Corsairs

The Corsairs Featuring The Voice of Jay 'Bird' Uzzell

Smoky Places

Phil wasn't the only Spector producing great group records in New York. Abner Spector had been around for a while, penning Stormy for The Prophets on Atco in 1956 and Eddie Fisher’s ‘53 top tenner With These Hands, but he was hardly a familiar name until he discovered The Corsairs. The family outfit came to New York from La Grange, North Carolina, consisting of brothers Moses, aka 'King' Moe (born September 13, 1939), James (born December 1, 1940), and Jay 'Bird' Uzzell (born July 13, 1942) and their cousin, George Wooten, born January 16, 1940.

Initially calling themselves The Gleems when they sang in their school glee club and at talent shows in La Grange, they migrated to Newark, New Jersey. Abner found the quartet in mid-1961 and signed them to his Tuff label. A group named after a brand of toothpaste would never do, so they changed their handle to The Corsairs. Bird emerged as the group's primary lead on The Corsairs' Tuff uptown soul debut Time Waits (he co-wrote it), out in August of '61 with It Won't Be A Sin situated on the B-side, King Moe affecting a bit of a Fats Domino accent as its lead. Mercury's Smash imprint picked it up for national consumption.

Utilizing veteran arranger Sammy Lowe to set a proper mood, The Corsairs waxed the atmospheric Smoky Places as their Tuff encore. With Bird's name printed in the same size font as the group's own on the label, the Spector composition came out in October of '61, a masterpiece of the stately uptown soul sound. It sailed to #10 R&B and #12 pop early the next year, a deliberate Thinkin' (Maybe She's Changed Her Ways) led by King Moe on the B-side. The gently swaying I'll Take You Home, their first Jay-led followup (not to be confused with The Drifters hit of the same title), managed a #26 R&B/#68 pop that spring.

Spector continued to utilize the same innovative production techniques on The Corsairs' Tuff encores, but Dancing Shadows missed the charts that summer despite coming out nationally on Chess. Another handful of Tuff 45s (including a poppish revival of Stormy), and The Corsairs hung it up after taking a 1964 detour into dance fare with Save A Little Monkey.

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