Shorty Long Here Comes Shorty Long - The Complete Motown Stereo Masters (CD)

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Shorty Long: Here Comes Shorty Long - The Complete Motown Stereo Masters (CD)

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Interpret: Shorty Long
Album titlle: Here Comes Shorty Long - The Complete Motown Stereo Masters (CD)
Genre Country
Label Ace Records
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EAN: 0029667236928
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Long, Shorty - Here Comes Shorty Long - The Complete Motown Stereo Masters (CD) CD 1
01	Here Come The Judge	Shorty Long
02	Night Fo' Last (Instrumental)	Shorty Long
03	Function At The Junction	Shorty Long
04	Don't Mess With My Weekend	Shorty Long
05	Ain't No Justice	Shorty Long
06	Devil With The Blue Dress	Shorty Long
07	Vocal	Night Fo Last (Version 2)
08	Stranded In The Jungle	Shorty Long
09	Here Comes Fat Albert	Shorty Long
10	Sing What You Wanna	Shorty Long
11	Another Hurt Like This	Shorty Long
12	People Sure Act Funny	Shorty Long
13	Mobile Lil The Dancing Witch	Shorty Long
14	Chantilly Lace (Alternate Version)	Shorty Long
15	I Had A Dream	Shorty Long
16	A Whiter Shade Of Pale	Shorty Long
17	Memories Are Made Of This	Shorty Long
18	I'm Walkin'	Shorty Long
19	Cross My Heart	Shorty Long
20	Lillie Of The Valley	Shorty Long
21	Blue Monday	Shorty Long
22	Baby Come Home To Me	Shorty Long
23	I Wish You Were Here	Shorty Long
24	When You Are Available	Shorty Long
25	Give Me Some Air	Shorty Long
26	The Deacon Work	Shorty Long

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"Shorty Long"

Shorty Long

Devil With The Blue Dress

Shorty Long

Devil With The Blue Dress

Though only an inch over five feet in stature, Shorty Long's talent was anything but diminutive. Born Frederick Earl Long in Birmingham, Alabama (a state that contributed more than its share of luminaries to Motowns roster) on May 20, 1940, Long was influenced by Johnny Ace and Little Willie John and tinkled the 88s in local nightspots before moving to Detroit in 1959. Signing with Harvey Fuqua and Gwen Gordy's Tri-Phi label in '62, he made three singles. I'll Be There graced two of them, with Bad Willie occupying the first flip and Too Smart on the second. The firm pressed up a third Long 45 pairing Going Away and the rocking What's The Matter before Motown absorbed Tri-Phi, sister label Harvey, and its most promising artists: saxman Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Johnny Bristol, The Spinners, and Long.

Ebullient Shorty was an instant favorite around Hitsville. "That was my man!" exclaims former Motown promo man Weldon A. McDougal III, who often accompanied Long on the road. "He was always singing and playing. When we went into the hotel, I'll never forget it, he would ask 'em, do they have a piano around. And if they did, if I ever wanted to see him anymore, he would be up there playing and writing and doing songs."

Though he was fresh to its halls, Long was encouraged to write his own material at Motown. He penned Devil With The Blue Dress, his first offering on the brand-new Soul subsidiary, with producer Mickey Stevenson. A tough blues grinder seasoned by rippling piano and stinging guitar, it somehow avoided 'Billboard's' charts. But fellow Motor City denizen Mitch Ryder knew it was a potential hit. The blue-eyed soul-rocker and his Detroit Wheels doubled the tempo, welded it to Little Richard's torrid Good Golly Miss Molly, and nailed a #4 pop smash with the hybrid on producer Bob Crewe's New Voice logo in '66.

Shorty jumped onto the charts in 1966 with an infectious dance workout, Function AtThe Junction. He had more success in '68 with Night Fo' Last, which was something of a sequel. But Long's top seller came later that year with the raucous novelty Here Comes The Judge, inspired by a zany courtroom comedy routine on the television program 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.' Long tragically drowned June 29, 1969 while fishing on the Detroit River; his rowboat capsized when a larger vessel swamped it.

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