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Barbara Mason: Oh, How It Hurts (CD)

(Bear Family Records) 26 tracks (77:37) 16 page booklet


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  • Interpret: Barbara Mason

  • Album titlle: Oh, How It Hurts (CD)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127162069

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Mason, Barbara - Oh, How It Hurts (CD) CD 1
01Oh, How It HurtsBarbara Mason
02I Don't Want To Lose YouBarbara Mason
03Happy GirlBarbara Mason
04For Your LoveBarbara Mason
05Peace Of MindBarbara Mason
06Dreams Really Come TrueBarbara Mason
07Ain't Got NobodyBarbara Mason
08ForeverBarbara Mason
09Gee WhizBarbara Mason
10Poor Girl In TroubleBarbara Mason
11(I Can Feel Your Love) Slipping AwayBarbara Mason
12Take It Easy (With My Heart)Barbara Mason
13You Better Stop ItBarbara Mason
14Don't Ever Go AwayBarbara Mason
15Game Of LoveBarbara Mason
16If You Don't (Love Me, Tell Me So)Barbara Mason
17I Do Love YouBarbara Mason
18Tried So HardBarbara Mason
19Is It MeBarbara Mason
20I Need Your Love (I Need Love)Barbara Mason
21Think About ItBarbara Mason
22Just You And MeBarbara Mason
23Dedicated To YouBarbara Mason
24I'll Keep On Loving YouBarbara Mason
25Lonely Too LongBarbara Mason
26I'm Not Good For YouBarbara Mason
Barbara Mason Shackin’ Up Barbara Mason Shackin’ Up A decade after her... more
"Barbara Mason"

Barbara Mason

Shackin’ Up

Barbara Mason

Shackin’ Up

A decade after her sweetly innocent Yes, I’m Ready nearly paced the R&B charts, Philly chanteuse Barbara Mason confirmed that she remained primed for action and then some with a far steamier Shackin’ Up, a #9 R&B entry during the spring of ’65.

 

Born August 9, 1947 in Philly, Mason fell in love with Motown and Curtis Mayfield as she listened to WDAS-AM radio. She competed in playground talent shows with her amateur singing group, catching the ear of Weldon A. McDougal III, bass singer of Philly’s Larks. He convinced her to go solo after she sang Moon River at a local club. “I told him I couldn’t do it, ‘cause I thought we were gonna be big, like The Supremes,” says Mason. Weldon’s wise counsel prevailed. Barbara possessed real writing talent and composed her ’64 debut Trouble Child for Crusader Records, produced by McDougal, as well as her initial single for WDAS deejay Jimmy Bishop’s Arctic label, Girls Have Feelings Too, which became her first hit in ‘65.

Bishop assumed Barbara’s managerial reins and was part of the team along with McDougal and his partners, Johnny Stiles and Luther Randolph, that helmed Yes, I’m Ready. Once again, she wrote it herself. “I was a real avid admirer and fan of Curtis Mayfield. And Curtis had written at that time ‘The Monkey Time’ for Major Lance. And I loved the hook in there where he said, ‘Are you ready?’ So I borrowed a little bit,”says Barbara. Bishop made a crucial change to the hook.“He decided that we needed to make ‘Are you ready’ the singalong, and make it into a first-person title: ‘Yes, I’m Ready.’ Again, it was a truthful song. And I knew a lot of other young kids would like it, but I didn’t know that the older adults were gonna like it. I was just writing whatever I felt in my heart to write. I still do that.”

Yes, I’m Ready leaped to #2 R&B/#5 pop in the spring of ’65. “I was just going on 18 then,”she says.“I was home one day, and the next day I was on the road.”Arctic’s flagship artist kept the hits coming, Bishop eventually taking over the production reins altogether: Sad, Sad Girl later that year, I Need Lovein ’66, 1968’s Oh, How It Hurts. When Arctic folded, Bishop moved Mason to the National General label, distributed by Buddah. “I think they were more into movies than they were the musical end,”she says.“When they folded, I automatically just went on Buddah.”

The sultry Bed And Board was Barbara’s first Buddah charter in 1972, followed at year’s end with the #9 R&B seller Give Me Your Love, which gave her the chance to work with her hero Mayfield. “Jimmy and I went into Chicago and he gave me the track, and I did it in one take,” says Mason, who answered Shirley Brown’s Woman To Woman (see our previous volume) with an equally sassy From His Woman To You, a Memphis-cut #3 R&B smash that hit the streets in late ‘74.

Ex-Stax producer Don Davis gave Barbara the forthright Shackin’ Up, written by southern soul singer Jackie Avery. We were in the studio cutting in Detroit. You know how people sometimes come in the studio and want to kinda like peddle this song? So this guy came to me,”says Mason,“and asked me if I’d like it. I said, ‘I love it!’ We just cut it.”Barbara left Buddah but dented the R&B charts into the mid-‘80s, her 1978 hit I Am Your Woman, She Is Your Wife reuniting her with McDougal. Whenever she surfaces to perform or record, she’s still ready.

- Bill Dahl -


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Tracklist
Mason, Barbara - Oh, How It Hurts (CD) CD 1
01 Oh, How It Hurts
02 I Don't Want To Lose You
03 Happy Girl
04 For Your Love
05 Peace Of Mind
06 Dreams Really Come True
07 Ain't Got Nobody
08 Forever
09 Gee Whiz
10 Poor Girl In Trouble
11 (I Can Feel Your Love) Slipping Away
12 Take It Easy (With My Heart)
13 You Better Stop It
14 Don't Ever Go Away
15 Game Of Love
16 If You Don't (Love Me, Tell Me So)
17 I Do Love You
18 Tried So Hard
19 Is It Me
20 I Need Your Love (I Need Love)
21 Think About It
22 Just You And Me
23 Dedicated To You
24 I'll Keep On Loving You
25 Lonely Too Long
26 I'm Not Good For You