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Interpret: Jimmy Jones
Album titlle: Good Times With The Handy Man 1955-60 (2-CD)
Label JASMINE
Preiscode JAS
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0604988017229
weight in Kg 0.1

Jones, Jimmy - Good Times With The Handy Man 1955-60 (2-CD) CD 1
01	Woman Woman Woman	Jimmy Jones
02	Don't Love You Any More	Jimmy Jones
03	Hurry Home	Jimmy Jones
04	Stars In The Sky	Jimmy Jones
05	Handy Man	Jimmy Jones
06	Everybody Rock And Go	Jimmy Jones
07	Cry On My Shoulder	Jimmy Jones
08	Somewhere	Jimmy Jones
09	You	Jimmy Jones
10	Say You're Mine	Jimmy Jones
11	With All My Heart	Jimmy Jones
12	We Made A Vow	Jimmy Jones
13	I've Got To Have You Baby	Jimmy Jones
14	Possesive Love	Jimmy Jones
15	Lover (Version 1)	Jimmy Jones
16	Plain Old Love	Jimmy Jones
17	The Bells Are Ringing (Version 1)	Jimmy Jones
18	The Bells Are Ringing (Version 2)	Jimmy Jones
19	Lover (Version 2)	Jimmy Jones
20	Part Time Sweetheart	Jimmy Jones
21	Close Your Eyes	Jimmy Jones
22	Heaven In Your Eyes	Jimmy Jones
23	The Whistlin' Man	Jimmy Jones

Jones, Jimmy - Good Times With The Handy Man 1955-60 (2-CD) CD 2
01	Tonight	Jimmy Jones
02	I Love You So	Jimmy Jones
03	Blue And Lonely	Jimmy Jones
04	Daddy Needs Baby	Jimmy Jones
05	You For Me For Love	Jimmy Jones
06	Whenever You Need Me	Jimmy Jones
07	Handy Man	Jimmy Jones
08	The Search Is Over	Jimmy Jones
09	Good Timin'	Jimmy Jones
10	My Precious Angel	Jimmy Jones
11	I Just Go For You	Jimmy Jones
12	That's When I Cried	Jimmy Jones
13	EE-I-EE-I-OH (Old McDonald)	Jimmy Jones
14	Itchin'	Jimmy Jones
15	For You	Jimmy Jones
16	Ready For Love	Jimmy Jones
17	A Wonderous Place	Jimmy Jones
18	Never Had It So Good	Jimmy Jones
19	Where In The World	Jimmy Jones
20	Then I'll Know	Jimmy Jones
21	Too Long Will Be Too Late	Jimmy Jones

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"Jimmy Jones"

Jimmy Jones

Handy Man

Jimmy Jones

Handy Man

Beginning his career as a tap dancer in his home town, Birmingham, Alabama (born June 2, 1937), Jimmy Jones continued as a dancer after moving to New York in 1949. He began singing with the Berliners, a group of ex-servicemen who’d served in Germany, after Jimmy had become reacquainted with their bass singer, Andrew Barksdale, whom he’d known in Birmingham. The Berliners became the Sparks of Rhythm, and landed a contract with Apollo Records that resulted in two singles hitting the streets in 1955. Jimmy quit soon thereafter, but the group cut the original version of Handy Man for Apollo on February 1, 1956, with Barksdale singing lead. Jones claimed that he’d written the song laying in bed, unable to sleep because he didn’t have the rent money.

The Biblical complexity of Jones’ comings-and-goings between 1956 and 1960 is unraveled on Marv Goldberg’s Jimmy Jones webpage, but briefly Jones led groups that recorded for Savoy as the Savoys; for Rama, Whirlin’ Disc, Holiday, Central, and Apt as the Pretenders; and for Arrow as the Jones Boys. He also recorded solo for Epic. We pick up the story in June 1959 when Jimmy met songwriter Otis Blackwell. Jones cut demos for Roosevelt Music and wrote Peppermint Stick for the El Chords. He and Jones recorded a demo of Handy Man, with Otis whistling because the flute player hadn’t shown up. “Jimmy came to me with an idea for a song called ‘Handy Man,’" Blackwell told Brandon Harris and Ralph M. Newman. “It just needed a little work on it, a few words here, a few words there. We went into the studio and made a demo of it, which Goldie Goldmark from Shalimar Music played for Arnold Maxin at MGM. It was the demo that they released, with a few little things added to it.” Shalimar, incidentally, was owned by Moe Gale, who’d once managed the Ink Spots and ran the premier R&B booking agency, the Gale Agency, as well as the Savoy Ballroom. Jimmy Jones has a slightly different account, insisting that Blackwell played the demo of Handy Man to Gale who told Blackwell to cut the song with Jimmy, and they re-recorded it at Regent Sound.

MGM released the song on its Cub subsidiary in September 1959. After a slow start, it reached #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100. And then, of course, everyone who’d ever recorded Jimmy Jones came forth, and Apollo released the thus-far-unreleased original version of Handy Man. Jones got another good payday from Good Timin’, but Handy Man became his ‘money’ song. It was a hit for Del Shannon in 1964 and a Top 10 hit for James Taylor in 1977.

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