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1-CD (6-plated Digipak) with 32-page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 minutes.... more

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Clyde McPhatter: Rocks (CD)

1-CD (6-plated Digipak) with 32-page booklet, 33 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 minutes.

Long overdue two-part documentary on Bear Family dedicated to one of the greatest Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, Soul and Rock & Roll singers: Clyde McPhatter (1932 - 1972).
On 'Clyde McPhatter Rocks' producer Nico Feuerbach has compiled the rousing up-tempo numbers, 'The Ballads Of' is dedicated to the great ballads of the tenor singer.
He was one of the first to fuse the harmony vocals of gospel music with the hot grooves of rhythm 'n' blues and is considered a pioneer of soul music and an outstanding rocker.
'Rocks’ collects his best fast recordings from his time with Billy Ward & The Dominoes, the Drifters and from his solo career.
Detailed liner notes by music historian Bill Dahl in the extensive accompanying booklet and - as always with Bear Family - carefully restored recordings in the best possible quality.

It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that soul music commenced when Clyde McPhatter opened his mouth and let fly. His groundbreaking hybrid of rhythm and blues and gospel as melismatic lead tenor with Billy Ward’s Dominoes predated even that of Ray Charles, opening the door to a whole new musical genre.

And could Clyde ever rock! Bear Family’s new overview of McPhatter’s seminal upbeat catalog follows him from his early salad days fronting The Drifters on Atlantic Records, when they hit big on the R&B charts with Money Honey and Honey Love, through his solo Atlantic stormers (A Lover’s Question was a huge 1958 seller) and then his splendid M-G-M and Mercury sides (including his ‘62 smash Lover Please). Backed by stellar studio bands that included sax masters Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, King Curtis, and Boots Randolph (who blows up a storm on Clyde’s Nashville cover of Fats Domino’s I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday), McPhatter was a soul pioneer and a world-class rocker who merits far more credit for his gargantuan contributions than he receives.

Clyde McPhatter was born in 1932. Disappointed by life, penniless, addicted to alcohol and depressed, he died at the age of only 39. Already a legend during his lifetime, he was denied great commercial success. He left behind an enormous musical legacy with recordings from a period of 22 years!

He was the first musician ever to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first as a solo artist and later as the lead singer of the Drifters.

We have compiled Clyde McPhatter's great ballads on BCD17615 'The Ballads of Clyde McPhatter', the supplemental album.

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Interpret: Clyde McPhatter
Album titlle: Rocks (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102176142
weight in Kg 0.115

McPhatter, Clyde - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01	Can It Be Wrong	Clyde McPhatter
02	Thirty Days	Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
03	Money Honey	Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
04	Lover Please	Clyde McPhatter
05	I Do Believe	Clyde McPhatter
06	Take A Step	Clyde McPhatter
07	Deep Sea Ball	Clyde McPhatter
08	What'd I Say	Clyde McPhatter
09	What'cha Gonna Do	Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
10	Rockin' Robin	Clyde McPhatter
11	Hey Love	Clyde McPhatter
12	Three Thirty Three	Clyde McPhatter
13	A Lover's Question	Clyde McPhatter
14	Up To My Ears In Tears	Clyde McPhatter
15	Come What May	Clyde McPhatter
16	(You've Got Everything) From A To Z	Clyde McPhatter
17	Such A Night (Mercury recording)	Clyde McPhatter
18	Bip Bam	Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
19	Same Time, Same Place	Clyde McPhatter
20	Twice As Nice	Clyde McPhatter
21	Lovey Dovey	Clyde McPhatter
22	I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday	Clyde McPhatter
23	I Can't Stand Up Alone	Clyde McPhatter
24	Let The Boogie Woogie Roll	Clyde McPhatter
25	Don't Let Go	Clyde McPhatter
26	Little Bitty Pretty One	Clyde McPhatter
27	You're For Me	Clyde McPhatter
28	Ta Ta	Clyde McPhatter
29	Money Honey (Mercury recording)	Clyde McPhatter
30	Since You Been Gone	Clyde McPhatter
31	Climb That Mountain Of Love	Clyde McPhatter
32	Stop	Clyde McPhatter
33	This Is Not Goodbye	Clyde McPhatter
34	I'm Movin' On	Clyde McPhatter

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From: John Spencely On: 26 May 2021

Wonderful!

Well, these two new CDs are a complete joy. With a combined 63 tracks they represent both the uptempo and ballads that Clyde McPhatter excelled at. Covering his Atlantic, MGM and Mercury periods they serve as a much extended ‘Best of’ with lots of lesser-known numbers of equal quality.
The Atlantic recordings are in a class of their own – from his time with the Drifters and his solo career following his discharge from the US Army in mid ’55. Songs like ‘Money Honey’, ‘Treasure of Love’, ‘A Lover’s Question’ and ‘Whatcha Gonna Do’ are all classics of their time and sound wonderful to this day. My favourites ‘Let The Boogie Woogie Roll’ and ‘Deep Sea Ball’ that came out belatedly in 1960 fairly jump out of the speakers and show the depth of the recordings that Atlantic had in the can. Indeed, the when the Atlantic unissued tracks were released in late ’59 and 60 to compete with the new 45s generated from his move to MGM, they charted much higher.
It’s fair to say that Clyde’s tenure at MGM wasn’t particularly spectacular. Only ‘Twice as Nice’ and a couple of others make the Bear Family cut. Much more successful was his move to Mercury where Clyde got his second musical wind. Twinned with Clyde Otis and then the young producer Jerry Kennedy (prior to his success with both Roger Miller and Jerry Lee Lewis) he hit big with his cover of Thurston Harris’ ‘Little Bitty Pretty One’, Ta Ta’ and Billy Swan’s ‘Lover Please’. Mercury spared no expense and gave Clyde great backing and strong songs.
The booklets that accompany the CDs have liner notes by Bill Dahl and include the usual details that competing companies don’t bother with. There’s also loads of photographs, a few of which are new to these eyes.
Wonderful!