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(Real Gone Music) 35 Tracks Over a Career Spanning Five Decades, Joe Simon Has Established... more

Joe Simon: Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD)

(Real Gone Music) 35 Tracks

Over a Career Spanning Five Decades, Joe Simon Has Established Himself as One of the Premiere Voices in R&B

“The Mouth of the South” Has Racked Up 35 Pop and 50 R&B Hits

But Because Simon’s Hits Were Evenly Spread Between Two Different Labels, There Has Never Been a Definitive Collection of His Work

Step by Step—The Complete Pop Hits Presents All 35 Songs to Reach the Billboard Pop Hits

Includes His First Hit, “My Adorable One,” Released by Vee Jay in 1964

Features His 18 Hits for the Sound Stage 7 Label Alongside His 16 Hits for the Spring Label

Just About Every R&B Genre Is Represented Including Gospel, Doo Wop, Country-Soul, Philly Soul, Blaxploitation, and Disco, All Sung with Simon’s Trademark Conviction and Passion

Among the Songs Are Simon’s Grammy-Winning Version of “The Chokin’ Kind,” the Gamble & Huff-Produced “Drowning in The Sea of Love” and “The Power of Love,” “Theme from Cleopatra Jones,” the Title Song for the Warner Brothers Smash 1973 Film, and Fan Favorites “Misty Blue,” “Your Time to Cry,” and “Step by Step”


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  • Interpret: Joe Simon

  • Album titlle: Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD)

  • Genre Soul

  • Label Real Gone Music

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0848064007562

  • weight in Kg 0.12
Simon, Joe - Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD) CD 1
01 My Adorable One Joe Simon
02 Teenager’s Prayer Joe Simon
03 My Special Prayer Joe Simon
04 Put Your Trust in Me (Depend on Me) Joe Simon
05 Nine Pound Steel Joe Simon
06 No Sad Songs Joe Simon
07 (You Keep Me) Hangin’ On Joe Simon
08 Message from Maria Joe Simon
09 I Worry About You Joe Simon
10 Looking Back Joe Simon
11 The Chokin’ Kind Joe Simon
12 Baby, Don’t Be Looking in My Mind Joe Simon
13 San Francisco Is a Lonely Town Joe Simon
14 It’s Hard to Get Along Joe Simon
15 Moon Walk Part 1 Joe Simon
16 Farther On Down the Road Joe Simon
17 Yours Love Joe Simon
18 That’s the Way I Want Our Love Joe Simon
19 Misty Blue Joe Simon
Simon, Joe - Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD) CD 2
01 Your Time to Cry Joe Simon
02 Help Me Make It Through the Night Joe Simon
03 To Lay Down Beside Me Joe Simon
04 You’re the One for Me Joe Simon
05 All My Hard Times Joe Simon
06 Drowning in the Sea of Love Joe Simon
07 Pool of Bad Luck Joe Simon
08 Power of Love Joe Simon
09 Trouble in My Home Joe Simon
10 I Found My Dad Joe Simon
11 Step by Step Joe Simon
12 Theme from Cleopatra Jones Joe Simon
13 River Joe Simon
14 Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor) Joe Simon
15 Music in My Bones Joe Simon
16 Come Get to This Joe Simon
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Joe Simon

The Chokin' Kind 

Joe Simon

The Chokin' Kind 

Call Joe Simon the reluctant soul star. "My heart was never in it, but I could sing rhythm and blues," he claims. Often sounding like his collar was a little too tight, his tense, emotionally charged baritone was particularly attuned to transforming country songs into soul gold.

 

He was born September 2, 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. "When I was a kid, I was a gospel singer," he says. He moved to Oakland, California in 1959, joining a vocal group, The Golden Tones, that debuted on Garrie Thompson's little Hush label in 1959 with Doreetha. Jealousy over a deejay mentioning Joe's name on the air broke them up, and Simon recorded consistently as a solo for Hush and its Irral and Gee Bee logos after that. His devotional soul ballad My Adorable One got picked up by Vee-Jay in 1964, and Simon was on his way. "It was me," he says. "I had found myself."

Vee-Jay sent Joe down to Rick Hall's Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, where he cut his first hit, the Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham-penned '65 deep soul classic Let's Do It Over. But a problem arose. "Vee-Jay was in bankruptcy court, and they couldn't press it," says Joe. Nashville's top R&B deejay, WLAC's John Richbourg, was basically in charge of Monument's Sound Stage 7 R&B subsidiary. "We did a shake-hand agreement," says Simon, whose first SS7 offering, Teenager's Prayer, was a 1966 hit.

The plaintive My Special Prayer followed suit in 1967, as did Penn and Wayne Carson Thompson's chain gang lament Nine Pound Steel. "Most of my records was country songs," says Joe. "I took 'em out of country and put 'em in rhythm and blues." The hits came hot and heavy in 1968: the Memphis-cut pounder No Sad Songs was followed by a country-soaked (You Keep Me) Hangin' On and the weepy epic Message From Maria. But they were all eclipsed by The Chokin' Kind, a '67 C&W hit for Waylon Jennings.

Cut in Nashville and driven by Wayne Moss' churning bass, The Chokin' Kind went to #1 R&B and #13 pop, winning Simon a Grammy. "I got it from Harlan Howard," he says. "They put it on my desk. And we listened to it and went in the studio." Many more SS7 hits were around the bend, and that handshake deal was so firm that John R stayed at the helm even when Simon moved to Spring Records. Eventually Joe teamed with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to wax his early '70s Spring smashes Drowning In the Sea Of Love and Power Of Love

In 1987, Simon enthusiastically abandoned his secular career to preach, never looking back. He's now a minister at a church in a southern suburb of Chicago.

 

- Bill Dahl -

Various - Sweet Soul Music

Various - Sweet Soul Music 28 Scorching Classics From 1969

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Tracklist
Simon, Joe - Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD) CD 1
01 My Adorable One
02 Teenager’s Prayer
03 My Special Prayer
04 Put Your Trust in Me (Depend on Me)
05 Nine Pound Steel
06 No Sad Songs
07 (You Keep Me) Hangin’ On
08 Message from Maria
09 I Worry About You
10 Looking Back
11 The Chokin’ Kind
12 Baby, Don’t Be Looking in My Mind
13 San Francisco Is a Lonely Town
14 It’s Hard to Get Along
15 Moon Walk Part 1
16 Farther On Down the Road
17 Yours Love
18 That’s the Way I Want Our Love
19 Misty Blue
Simon, Joe - Step By Step - The Complete Pop Hits (2-CD) CD 2
01 Your Time to Cry
02 Help Me Make It Through the Night
03 To Lay Down Beside Me
04 You’re the One for Me
05 All My Hard Times
06 Drowning in the Sea of Love
07 Pool of Bad Luck
08 Power of Love
09 Trouble in My Home
10 I Found My Dad
11 Step by Step
12 Theme from Cleopatra Jones
13 River
14 Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)
15 Music in My Bones
16 Come Get to This