Shirley & Lee The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Shirley & Lee: The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
They were called 'The Sweethearts Of The Blues', and, for a decade, they made some of the most exciting and offbeat music to come out of New Orleans. Let The Good Times Roll and Feel So Good were just the tip of the iceberg. With the hottest New Orleans studio musicians behind them, they put a new twist on Crescent City R&B, making the most of the contrast between Shirley's unique voice and Lee's rich bluesy baritone. The 111 songs on these 4 CDs include every recording that Shirley & Lee made together. Recorded between 1952 and 1963 for Aladdin, Warwick and Imperial, this includes classics like
Rock All Night, I'm Gone, Everybody's Rockin', The Flirt, Rockin' With The Clock, as well as the unique boy-girl saga, Shirley Come Back, Shirley's Back, The Proposal, etc. that had R&B record-buyers captivated in the Fifties. Beneath it all, there's the fabulous sound of New Orleans R&B. The city's finest are here:Earl Palmer, Dave Bartholomew,Herbert Hardesty,Red Tyler, Lee Allen... the greatest session men in R&B!
Article properties:Shirley & Lee: The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Interpret: Shirley & Lee
Album titlle: The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Bear Family Records
- Preiscode DI
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127159601
- weight in Kg 1.4
Shirley & Lee - The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1 | ||||
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01 | Sweethearts | Shirley & Lee | ||
02 | I'm Gone | Shirley & Lee | ||
03 | The Real Thing | Shirley & Lee | ||
04 | Korea | Shirley & Lee | ||
05 | Baby | Shirley & Lee | ||
06 | Shirley, Come Back To Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
07 | Shirley's Back (alt) | Shirley & Lee | ||
08 | Shirley's Back | Shirley & Lee | ||
09 | Why Did I | Shirley & Lee | ||
10 | So In Love (alt) | Shirley & Lee | ||
11 | So In Love | Shirley & Lee | ||
12 | The Reason Why | Shirley & Lee | ||
13 | The Time Has Come | Shirley & Lee | ||
14 | I Love You So | Shirley & Lee | ||
15 | The Proposal | Shirley & Lee | ||
16 | Two Happy People | Shirley & Lee | ||
17 | Lee Goofed | Shirley & Lee | ||
18 | Every Fool Has His Day | Shirley & Lee | ||
19 | Down In My Heart | Shirley & Lee | ||
20 | Keep On | Shirley & Lee | ||
21 | Confessin' | Shirley & Lee | ||
22 | When The Sun Goes Down | Shirley & Lee | ||
23 | Tryin' To Fool Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
24 | Rumors Blue | Shirley & Lee | ||
25 | Comin' Over | Shirley & Lee | ||
26 | Takes Money | Shirley & Lee | ||
27 | I Didn't Want You | Shirley & Lee | ||
28 | You'd Be Thinking Of Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
29 | I'll Thrill You | Shirley & Lee |
Shirley & Lee - The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2 | ||||
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01 | Feel So Good | Shirley & Lee | ||
02 | Lee's Dream | Shirley & Lee | ||
03 | I'll Do It | Shirley & Lee | ||
04 | Tell Me So | Shirley & Lee | ||
05 | That's What I'll Do | Shirley & Lee | ||
06 | A Little Word | Shirley & Lee | ||
07 | Let The Good Times Roll | Shirley & Lee | ||
08 | Do You Mean To Hurt Me So | Shirley & Lee | ||
09 | Everything | Shirley & Lee | ||
10 | We Will Be Forever Happy | Shirley & Lee | ||
11 | I Feel Good | Shirley & Lee | ||
12 | That's What I Wanna Do | Shirley & Lee | ||
13 | Now That's Over | Shirley & Lee | ||
14 | Everything | Shirley & Lee | ||
15 | I Want To Dance | Shirley & Lee | ||
16 | Marry Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
17 | Before I Go | Shirley & Lee | ||
18 | Don't You Know | Shirley & Lee | ||
19 | Rock All Night | Shirley & Lee | ||
20 | Rockin' With The Clock | Shirley & Lee | ||
21 | The Flirt | Shirley & Lee | ||
22 | Love No One But You | Shirley & Lee | ||
23 | Live On The Farm | Shirley & Lee | ||
24 | Everybody's Rockin' | Shirley & Lee | ||
25 | Don't Leave Me Here To Cry | Shirley & Lee | ||
26 | Come On And Have Your Fun | Shirley & Lee | ||
27 | All I Want To Do Is Cry | Shirley & Lee | ||
28 | True Love Never Dies | Shirley & Lee | ||
29 | When Day Is Done | Shirley & Lee | ||
30 | So Tired | Shirley & Lee |
Shirley & Lee - The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3 | ||||
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01 | Let The Good Times Roll | Shirley & Lee | ||
02 | Shirley Come Back To Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
03 | Like You Used To Do | Shirley & Lee | ||
04 | Bewildered | Shirley & Lee | ||
05 | Who Are We Fooling | Shirley & Lee | ||
06 | Keep Loving Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
07 | You Moves Me | Shirley & Lee | ||
08 | Let's Live It Up | Shirley & Lee | ||
09 | I've Been Loved Before | Shirley & Lee | ||
10 | I'll Never Be Free | Shirley & Lee | ||
11 | After Last Night | Shirley & Lee | ||
12 | I Love The Way You Love | Shirley & Lee | ||
13 | Your Love Makes The Difference | Shirley & Lee | ||
14 | I Was Lucky | Shirley & Lee | ||
15 | Lover's Mistake | Shirley & Lee | ||
16 | Everybody Needs Somebody | Shirley & Lee | ||
17 | Your Day Is Coming | Shirley & Lee | ||
18 | Two Peas In A Pod | Shirley & Lee | ||
19 | Good For Nothing Baby | Shirley & Lee | ||
20 | Well-A, Well-A | Shirley & Lee | ||
21 | Our Kids | Shirley & Lee | ||
22 | They've Got To Understand | Shirley & Lee | ||
23 | Call Me A Fool | Shirley & Lee | ||
24 | Hard To Believe (take 7) | Shirley & Lee | ||
25 | Hard To Believe (take 8) | Shirley & Lee | ||
26 | Behind The Make-Up | Shirley & Lee | ||
27 | Keep The Magic Working | Shirley & Lee | ||
28 | Girl You're Married Now | Shirley & Lee | ||
29 | It's Been So Long | Shirley & Lee |
Shirley & Lee - The Sweethearts Of The Blues (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4 | ||||
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01 | The Joker | Shirley & Lee | ||
02 | Together We Stand | Shirley & Lee | ||
03 | My Last Letter | Shirley & Lee | ||
04 | I'm Old Enough | Shirley & Lee | ||
05 | You Wouldn't | Shirley & Lee | ||
06 | A Little Thing | Shirley & Lee | ||
07 | The Engagement | Shirley & Lee | ||
08 | Don't Stop Now | Shirley & Lee | ||
09 | Hey Little Boy | Shirley & Lee | ||
10 | The Golden Rule | Shirley & Lee | ||
11 | Honky Tonk Music | Shirley & Lee | ||
12 | Dancing World | Shirley & Lee | ||
13 | Thank You | Shirley & Lee | ||
14 | Wouldn't Be Here | Shirley & Lee | ||
15 | The Brink Of Disaster | Shirley & Lee | ||
16 | Paper Doll | Shirley & Lee | ||
17 | When I Fall In Love | Shirley & Lee | ||
18 | Don't Marry Too Soon | Shirley & Lee | ||
19 | Honey Bee | Shirley & Lee | ||
20 | When A Girl Meets A Boy | Shirley & Lee | ||
21 | Never Let Me Go | Shirley & Lee | ||
22 | Surf Heaven | Shirley & Lee | ||
23 | Surfer's Hangout | Shirley & Lee | ||
24 | Somebody Put A Juke Box In The Study Hall | Shirley & Lee |
Shirley & Lee
Although Aladdin Records boss Eddie Mesner christened them 'The Sweethearts of the Blues' soon after I'm Gone, their self-penned debut single for his Los Angeles-based label, blasted up to #2 on the R&B hit parade in early 1953, Shirley Goodman and her equally youthful duet partner Leonard Lee weren't romantically involved with one another in reality, despite considerable recorded evidence to the contrary.
In fact, Shirley & Lee's earliest Aladdin sides strongly resembled an ongoing rhythm and blues soap opera, replete with teenaged heartbreak and happy reunions. Recording in the cozy confines of Cosimo Matassa's studio in their New Orleans hometown with its brilliant house band in sizzling support, the charmingly unpolished teens acted out the ups and downs of a volatile love affair neatly summarized by their melodramatic song titles. In the wake of I'm Gone, they encored with Shirley, Come Back To Me, Shirley's Back, The Proposal, and Lee Goofed, each heartfelt ballad extending the epic tale with touching sincerity. Since this disc concentrates exclusively on the pair's rocking catalog, those ballads aren't here apart from one essential exception. But they're readily available on Bear Family's four-CD set 'The Sweethearts of the Blues,' containing everything they ever made as a duo for Aladdin, Warwick, and Imperial.
This non-coosome twosome didn't exactly sing duets in the classic sense because uniting their disparate voices in sweet harmony was nearly impossible. Shirley's shrill, high-pitched wail didn't mesh any too smoothly with Lee's considerably deeper range. Cosimo chuckles that Shirley's untutored delivery was "like a razor blade. We used to joke when she sang, you bleed!" So the young pair usually alternated choruses rather than struggling to find a common key that both could comfortably blend over. The result was a fresh, invigorating sound that set them apart from the pack during rock and roll's first exciting incursion upon the staid commercial mainstream.
Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee first crossed paths in elementary school, when Leonard was attending seventh grade and Shirley was in the sixth. Both were natives of the Crescent City's Seventh Ward; Shirley was born July 19, 1936 and Leonard on June 29, 1935. Music enveloped Shirley from her youngest days. Her father could pound out a mean Junker's Blues on the 88s and her grandmother, who raised her after her parents divorced, made sure the little girl had a solid Baptist upbringing that included plenty of singing in church. Leonard was the son of a Baptist preacher, so their sanctified background was shared.
You'd never know it to hear her, but Shirley's early secular musical hero was saucy, sophisticated jazz and R&B chanteuse Dinah Washington. But it was a bawdy number originated by local blues singer Chubby Newsome that got Shirley over with the crowd the first time she ever sang in public. She and her cousin were regulars at the Palace Theater for the Saturday vaudeville shows, and one day the gutsy lass hopped onstage to belt out Newsome's ribald 1949 hit Hip Shakin' Mama, gyrating in a decidedly adult manner that may have looked a mite comical coming from such a young girl but reportedly delighted the audience.
Shirley and Leonard were part of a large clique of neighborhood kids numbering as many as 20 that regularly assembled on a local porch to sing for one another. Their friend Evangeline Blazo had a piano at her house, so that's where the group convened to pitch in on the writing of I'm Gone, each of them contributing whatever they could to the cause. At that point, they were just performing for each other, strictly for the love of the music. Initially, singing I'm Gone could stretch on for hours, what with each member of the outsized group chiming in. Once they learned from Shirley's cousin that Matassa made custom recordings for two dollars apiece, they asked the busy engineer about the possibility of recording their homemade ditty.
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A stunnish set about this New Orleans duo! I first bought the 'Rocks' compilation but then I realized that there is the box set which I directly bought and I definitely don't regret it! A must have for every Rhythm 'n' Blues fan!
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