Hemotep
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I've always called it ants on a log, but I've never seen it with Raisinets which looks more like rabbit poo on a log.
Needles & Grooves AotM /// Vol. 50 - August 2023 /// Lula Reed - Blue and Moody
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avecigrec
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I guess we're all just assuming @Lee Newman nailed it, huh?
Will announce on the 15th whether or not it was guessed! So yes, I have a week to mess with you all
Sorry, I was out of town unexpectedly to see my parents this weekend. I forgot all about this. I’ll post a bio etc tonight when I get home.
Volume 50 AOTM is Lula Reed - Blue and Moody which @Lee Newman correctly guessed. I’ll spin a wheel for one more winner from the thread participants.
TrainFan73
Frothy
I DID IT!!! Wooohooo!
Lula Reed - Blue and Moody
From Wikipedia:
Reed was mentored by blind gospel singer Professor Harold Boggs, before winning an audition over 50 other contestants in Toledo to become the vocalist with Sonny Thompson's band. Credited as vocalist on Thompson's records, she made her recording debut for King Records in Cincinnati in late 1951, on the song "I'll Drown in My Tears" written by Henry Glover. The song reached no.5 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1952, and was recorded by Ray Charles in 1956 as "Drown in My Own Tears", with wider commercial success.
Reed's next record with Thompson, "Let's Call It A Day", also written by Glover, reached no.7 on the Billboard R&B chart. Most of her later records for King were credited in her own name, although she continued to record with Thompson, who became her husband in 1954.She was a versatile singer, performing some gospel songs as well as blues and R&B. Her 1954 recording, "Rock Love", was later covered by Little Willie John. She remained popular, being voted no.4 R&B singer in the Cash Box annual poll in 1954, and continued to record for the King label until 1956. However, Reed failed to have any further chart hits. King released an album of her recordings, Blue And Moody, in 1958.
Reed and Thompson recorded for the Chess Records subsidiary Argo between 1958 and 1960, before returning to Cincinnati and starting to record for King's subsidiary Federal label in 1961. She released seven singles on Federal over the next two years, on many of them accompanied by Freddy King, but none made the charts. Accompanied by King and Thompson, she also released an album on Federal, Boy-Girl-Boy, in 1962. She then moved to the Tangerine label set up by Ray Charles, and recorded a series of singles in the early 1960s. Her final single was released in 1967.
She then left the music business, due to lack of true promotion by the last record company she signed with. But she always talked with family and friends about her career singing and recording secular rhythm and blues music and wanted her granddaughters to follow her footsteps. She died in Detroit, Michigan in 2008 at the age of 82. Her son, also a talented vocalist is Reginald Melvin Reed and great-granddaughters Dejah McKenzie and Dominique Johnson great-grandsons Joel Fox and Joshua Weaver granddaughter is Melludee G. and Nicole G.
Several compilation albums of her recordings have been issued, including I'll Drown in My Tears – The King Anthology.
Full Wikipedia Entry:
en.wikipedia.org
Allmusic:
www.allmusic.com
From Wikipedia:
Reed was mentored by blind gospel singer Professor Harold Boggs, before winning an audition over 50 other contestants in Toledo to become the vocalist with Sonny Thompson's band. Credited as vocalist on Thompson's records, she made her recording debut for King Records in Cincinnati in late 1951, on the song "I'll Drown in My Tears" written by Henry Glover. The song reached no.5 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1952, and was recorded by Ray Charles in 1956 as "Drown in My Own Tears", with wider commercial success.
Reed's next record with Thompson, "Let's Call It A Day", also written by Glover, reached no.7 on the Billboard R&B chart. Most of her later records for King were credited in her own name, although she continued to record with Thompson, who became her husband in 1954.She was a versatile singer, performing some gospel songs as well as blues and R&B. Her 1954 recording, "Rock Love", was later covered by Little Willie John. She remained popular, being voted no.4 R&B singer in the Cash Box annual poll in 1954, and continued to record for the King label until 1956. However, Reed failed to have any further chart hits. King released an album of her recordings, Blue And Moody, in 1958.
Reed and Thompson recorded for the Chess Records subsidiary Argo between 1958 and 1960, before returning to Cincinnati and starting to record for King's subsidiary Federal label in 1961. She released seven singles on Federal over the next two years, on many of them accompanied by Freddy King, but none made the charts. Accompanied by King and Thompson, she also released an album on Federal, Boy-Girl-Boy, in 1962. She then moved to the Tangerine label set up by Ray Charles, and recorded a series of singles in the early 1960s. Her final single was released in 1967.
She then left the music business, due to lack of true promotion by the last record company she signed with. But she always talked with family and friends about her career singing and recording secular rhythm and blues music and wanted her granddaughters to follow her footsteps. She died in Detroit, Michigan in 2008 at the age of 82. Her son, also a talented vocalist is Reginald Melvin Reed and great-granddaughters Dejah McKenzie and Dominique Johnson great-grandsons Joel Fox and Joshua Weaver granddaughter is Melludee G. and Nicole G.
Several compilation albums of her recordings have been issued, including I'll Drown in My Tears – The King Anthology.
Full Wikipedia Entry:
Lula Reed - Wikipedia
Allmusic:
Lula Reed - Blue and Moody Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic
Discover Blue and Moody by Lula Reed released in 1959. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
www.allmusic.com
I bought it direct from Sundazed, but it should be available through most retailers. It's $5 off on Sundazed’s site right now.
"Painstakingly mastered from the original analog session tapes and pressed at R.T.I. Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio."
"Painstakingly mastered from the original analog session tapes and pressed at R.T.I. Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio."
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Also, thank you for using a Queen Sutton Foster meme.
OK, these are the names I have for the random thread participant drawing. I took out Newman since he's getting one for guessing!
jt4527
avecigrec
Skalap
Jan
gafacaode
TenderLovingKiller
NewsFedora
ByersVinyl
Colonel_Angus
Wes C. Attle
MikeH
Mather
Yer Ol' Uncle D
Hemotep
cul8er
jt4527
avecigrec
Skalap
Jan
gafacaode
TenderLovingKiller
NewsFedora
ByersVinyl
Colonel_Angus
Wes C. Attle
MikeH
Mather
Yer Ol' Uncle D
Hemotep
cul8er
I bought it direct from Sundazed, but it should be available through most retailers. It's $5 off on Sundazed’s site right now.
"Painstakingly mastered from the original analog session tapes and pressed at R.T.I. Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio."
I really appreciate you including me, but I barely participated really. I don't think I should be messing up other's chances at the drawing.
Yes, take me out as well, please, because shipping over here is costly and you're giving away three records. And I can find if over here and surely will order it after my vacation. It is a really great record I had never heard of before this thread.
You can take me off the draw list, too. I've already bought the album and it arrived today! I'll hopefully get a chance to spin it soon!
