The Ravens Bass Instincts (2-CD)
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The Ravens: Bass Instincts (2-CD)
Article properties:The Ravens: Bass Instincts (2-CD)
Interpret: The Ravens
Album titlle: Bass Instincts (2-CD)
Label JASMINE
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0604988024722
- weight in Kg 0.12
| Ravens, The - Bass Instincts (2-CD) CD 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 | Lullaby | The Ravens | ||
| 03 | Out Of Dream | The Ravens | ||
| 04 | My Sugar Is So Refined | The Ravens | ||
| 05 | Bye Bye Baby Blues | The Ravens | ||
| 06 | Mahzel (Means Good Luck) | The Ravens | ||
| 07 | For You | The Ravens | ||
| 08 | Ol' Man River | The Ravens | ||
| 09 | Write Me A Letter | The Ravens | ||
| 10 | Send For Me If You Need Me | The Ravens | ||
| 11 | Until The Real Thing Comes Along | The Ravens | ||
| 12 | It's Too Soon To Know | The Ravens | ||
| 13 | Be On Your Merry Way | The Ravens | ||
| 14 | Silent Night | The Ravens | ||
| 15 | White Christmas | The Ravens | ||
| 16 | Always | The Ravens | ||
| 17 | Leave My Gal Alone | The Ravens | ||
| 18 | Ricky's Blues | The Ravens | ||
| 19 | Someday | The Ravens | ||
| 20 | I'm Afraid Of You | The Ravens | ||
| 21 | I Don't Have To Ride No More | The Ravens | ||
| 22 | I've Been A Fool | The Ravens | ||
| 23 | I'm Going To Paper My Walls | The Ravens | ||
| 24 | I'm Gonna Take To The Road | The Ravens | ||
| 25 | Oh Babe | The Ravens | ||
| 26 | Walkin' With The Blues | The Ravens | ||
| 27 | Don't Look Now | The Ravens | ||
| Ravens, The - Bass Instincts (2-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 02 | Midnight Blues | The Ravens | ||
| 03 | Gotta Find My Baby | The Ravens | ||
| 04 | You Foolish Thing | The Ravens | ||
| 05 | I Get All My Lovin' / Honey I Don't Want You | The Ravens | ||
| 06 | On A Saturday Night | The Ravens | ||
| 07 | Everything But You | The Ravens | ||
| 08 | Out In The Cold Again | The Ravens | ||
| 09 | Hey Good Lookin' | The Ravens | ||
| 10 | Looking For My Baby | The Ravens | ||
| 11 | Why Did You Leave Me | The Ravens | ||
| 12 | Write Me Sweet Letter | The Ravens | ||
| 13 | Rock Me All Night Long | The Ravens | ||
| 14 | Don't Mention My Name | The Ravens | ||
| 15 | I'll Be Back | The Ravens | ||
| 16 | Come A Little Closer | The Ravens | ||
| 17 | She's Got To Go | The Ravens | ||
| 18 | Who'll Be The Fool (From Now On) | The Ravens | ||
| 19 | Rough Ridin' | The Ravens | ||
| 20 | Without A Song | The Ravens | ||
| 21 | Walkin' My Blues Away | The Ravens | ||
| 22 | Escortin' Or Countin' | The Ravens | ||
| 23 | Love Is No Dream | The Ravens | ||
| 24 | I've Got You Under My Skin | The Ravens | ||
| 25 | Happy Go Lucky Baby | The Ravens | ||
| 26 | Green Eyes | The Ravens | ||
| 27 | The Bells Of San Raquel | The Ravens | ||
| 28 | On Chapel Hill | The Ravens | ||
The Ravens
The Ravens
Rock Me All Night Long
Despite wholesale personnel changes since their late '40s breakthrough, The Ravens were hanging in there. Cut in June of 1952 at New York's Fine Recording Studios and released the next month, Rock Me All Night Long, penned by mighty bass singer Jimmy Ricks and Ravens pianist Bill Sanford, was their first platter to chart in two-and-a-half years, rising to #4 R&B. It was a thoroughly swinging affair, Ricks and his crew in a boisterous frame of mind and their studio pianist pounding out a great extended solo. Paired with a cover of Joe Liggins' Write Me One Sweet Letter, it was a typically strong release, one of their first for Chicago's Mercury Records following their exit from Columbia the previous autumn.
Ricks was the only original Raven left. Joe Van Loan was now their high tenor, Jimmy Steward their second tenor, and Louis Frazier their baritone. As long as Ricks was on board, The Ravens' trademark sound stayed reasonably intact. The New York-based quartet would make more fine recordings for Mercury, but none of them pierced the charts. Ricks would cut the occasional solo platter, and he got itchy feet now and then; Detroiter Tommy Evans of The Carols (see our 1950 collection) was his replacement for a six-month stretch in '54.
The Ravens moved over to Jerry Blaine's Jubilee Records in 1955 and made some nice singles, notably Green Eyes, before Ricks packed it in to pursue a solo career in early '56. Evans came back to shoulder a very heavy load; Ricks was nothing less than the most important bass singer in R&B vocal group history. The closest Jimmy ever came to notching a solo hit (he cut for a string of companies, including Baton, Decca, Felsted, Atco, Fury, Mainstream, Sure Shot, and Jubilee) was a 1961 duet on Atlantic with LaVern Baker, I'll Never Be Free (the sexy flip You're The Boss is better remembered today).
Van Loan led a splinter group of Ravens to the Chess subsidiary Argo in 1956, Ricks' crucial spot filled by Big Bob Kornegay of The Du Droppers and then former King Odom Quartet/Larks bass David 'Boots' Bowers. An unwise cover of Buddy Holly and The Crickets' That'll Be The Day surfaced in 1957. By the first days of '59, the quartet that kick-started the R&B vocal group revolution was no more. Ricks died July 2, 1974, his role as a rhythm and blues pioneer all too often overlooked.
Bill Dahl
Various - Street Corner Symphonies Vol.04
1952 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
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