Billy Stewart Unbelievable - Cross My Heart
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Billy Stewart: Unbelievable - Cross My Heart
Article properties: Billy Stewart: Unbelievable - Cross My Heart
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Interpret: Billy Stewart
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Album titlle: Unbelievable - Cross My Heart
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Label SHOUT
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Genre R&B, Soul
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 5013929507524
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| Stewart, Billy - Unbelievable - Cross My Heart CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Tell It Like It Is | Billy Stewart | ||
| 02 | How Nice It Is | Billy Stewart | ||
| 03 | Summertime | Billy Stewart | ||
| 04 | Foggy Day | Billy Stewart | ||
| 05 | Teach Me Tonight | Billy Stewart | ||
| 06 | Canadian Sunset | Billy Stewart | ||
| 07 | Time After Time | Billy Stewart | ||
| 08 | Misty | Billy Stewart | ||
| 09 | Moon River | Billy Stewart | ||
| 10 | My Funny Valentine | Billy Stewart | ||
| 11 | Love Is Here To Stay | Billy Stewart | ||
| 12 | That Old Black Magic | Billy Stewart | ||
| 13 | Almost Like Being In Love | Billy Stewart | ||
| 14 | Over The Rainbow | Billy Stewart | ||
| 15 | Why Am I Lonely | Billy Stewart | ||
| 16 | Cross My Heart | Billy Stewart | ||
| 17 | Why Do I Love You So | Billy Stewart | ||
| 18 | You've Got Such Good Loving | Billy Stewart | ||
| 19 | Fat Boy's Boogaloo | Billy Stewart | ||
| 20 | Tell Me The Truth | Billy Stewart | ||
| 21 | What Have I Done | Billy Stewart | ||
| 22 | Crazy 'bout You Baby | Billy Stewart | ||
| 23 | I'm In Love (Oh Yes I Am) | Billy Stewart | ||
| 24 | By The Time I Get To Phoenix | Billy Stewart | ||
Billy Stewart
Sitting In The Park
Billy Stewart
Sitting In The Park
Giant-sized with an idiosyncratic vocal delivery laced with tongue rolling and percussive consonants, Billy Stewart had a giant mentor at Chess Records in Bo Diddley. Born March 24, 1937 in Washington D.C., the gospel-trained Stewart was discovered by the Chicago guitarist in 1956 playing at a bar near the Dunbar Hotel, Bo's home away from home when he headlined the Howard Theater. Bo took his discovery back home and cut his two-part debut single for Chess, Billy's Blues (its central guitar riff, played by Jody Williams, was appropriated for Mickey & Sylvia's Love Is Strange, leading to litigation aplenty). Bo also produced and played on Stewart's '57 single for OKeh, Billy's Heartache, where Stewart was vocally backed by The Marquees (their members included young D.C. resident Marvin Gaye).
Billy didn't record again until 1962, when he returned to Chess under Billy Davis's direction and scored a sizable hit his first time out with Reap What You Sow (its flip, Fat Boy, gave him an enduring nickname). Stewart had another hit the next year with Strange Feeling. At a December '64 date, he laid down his two greatest originals. In front of the superlative Chess house rhythm section (guitarist Gerald Sims, pianist Leonard Caston, Jr., bassist Louis Satterfield, and drummer Maurice White), Stewart invested the atmospheric, Latin-tinged I Do Love You with a falsetto-laden vocal that sounded like nothing else on the radio. It shot up to #6 R&B and #26 pop.
Four months later, Stewart did even better on the charts with the other gorgeous ballad done that day, Sitting In The Park. Pop audiences embraced Billy when he focused his quirky vocal delivery on George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward's hoary pop standard Summertime. Phil Wright's brassy arrangement was matched by Stewart's dazzling vocal gymnastics, resulting in his only Top 10 pop hit in 1966 (he lip-synched it on Dick Clark's ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is' decked out in full cowboy attire). "Billy was a character!" laughs Gene Barge, who produced some of his later Chess sides. Another old pop standard, Secret Love, underwent a similar Stewartization, but 'Motormouth' eventually reverted to fresh material until a January 17, 1970 auto wreck in North Carolina killed him and three band members.
- Bill Dahl -
Various - Sweet Soul Music
Various - Sweet Soul Music 30 Scorching Classics From 1965
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