Out July 29 on Cherry Red Records.
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While many of the decade’s most successful UK bands (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al) were originally inspired and influenced by Black American soul and R&B, it could be argued that Black artists recording in Britain at the time weren’t given the exposure they deserved.
The first two discs of ‘Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ document the explosion of homegrown Soul and Rhythm and Blues which reflected the growing success of labels such as Motown and Stax/ Atlantic, which spearheaded the plethora of Black music emanating from the States. Artists such as Carl Douglas and Jimmy James were popular live draws, who later enjoyed chart success in the 1970s. Jackie Edwards, Owen Gray and Jimmy Cliff came to the UK from Jamaica after signing with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records while Geno Washington was an American GI who stayed here and continues to perform to this day. Clyde McPhatter was the legendary original singer in The Drifters and The Chants would eventually evolve into The Real Thing.
However, Soul and R&B aren’t the only genres catered for here. While disc 3 is devoted to the homespun Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae from artists who’d often been born in the Caribbean (chief among them Laurel Aitken, the ‘Godfather of Ska’), Disc 4 reflects a wider range of styles including choice selections from many stars of their day (Cleo Laine, a highly respected jazz singer; Shirley Bassey, a successful worldwide phenomenon; Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, a charismatic maverick; Winifred Atwell, a popular boogie woogie pianist; Geoff Love, a renowned orchestra leader). The UK also played host to many visiting American blues and folk men and women (such as Champion Jack Dupree, Otis Spann and Mabel Hillery).
‘Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ boasts numerous tracks new to CD and includes many 45s which now command three figure sums on the collector’s market. With comprehensive sleevenotes and artist biographies, a plethora of rare images and photos and newly remastered sound, this is a fitting homage to a golden era in Black British music.
Track Listing:
DISC ONE
- THE SOUL BROTHERS Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’
- THE FLIRTATIONS Nothing But A Heartache
- CARL DOUGLAS Serving A Sentence Of Life
- JIMMY THOMAS Springtime
- JIMMY JAMES AND THE VAGABONDS This Heart Of Mine
- JACKIE EDWARDS Come On Home
- CHRIS RAYBURN One Way Ticket
- HERBIE GOINS AND THE NIGHT-TIMERS Coming Home To You
- JIMMY CLIFF Waterfall
- THE FERRIS WHEEL I Can’t Break The Habit
- GENO WASHINGTON & THE RAM JAM BAND Michael
- CLEO LAINE Don’t You Pass Me By
- DANNY WILLIAMS Whose Little Girl Are You
- MADELINE BELL Picture Me Gone
- WATSON T BROWNE AND THE EXPLOSIVE Some Lovin’
- EBONY KEYES If You Knew
- SUGAR SIMONE Take It Easy
- KIM D The Real Thing
- BROTHERS GRIMM Looky, Looky
- LUCAS AND THE MIKE COTTON SOUND Ain’t Love Good, Ain’t Love Proud
- THE FANTASTICS Ask The Lonely
- OLIVER NORMAN Drowning In My Own Despair
- OWEN GRAY Gonna Work Out Fine
- JOHN L WATSON AND THE HUMMELFLUGS Lookin’ For Love
- KENNY LYNCH Movin’ Away
- ROOT AND JENNY JACKSON Let’s Go Somewhere
- KENNY BERNARD What Love Brings
- RAM JOHN HOLDER Yes I Do
- HOAGY BENSON Turn Me On
- THE CHANTS A Man Without A Face
- MARSHA HUNT Walk On Gilded Splinters
- THE FOUNDATIONS New Direction
- CALEB Baby You’re Phrasing Is Bad
- JOHN FITCH AND ASSOCIATES Stoned Out Of It
- SIMON K AND THE MEANTIMERS Bring Back Your Love (To Me)
- THE SUGARLUMPS Can’t We Be Friends
- FLAMMA SHERMAN Move Me
- JACK HAMMER What Greater Love
- THE SHADROCKS (Featuring Little John) There Is
- CLYDE McPHATTER Only A Fool
- RONNIE JONES I’m So Clean
- THIS ‘N’ THAT Get Down With It / I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
- JJ JACKSON AND THE JEEPS But It’s Alright
- ERNEST RANGLIN AND THE GBs Swing A Ling Pt. I
- NORMA LEE Hurt
- THE CORDUROYS Too Much Of A Woman
- ERROL DIXON I Don’t Want
- SONNY CHILDE Giving Up On Love
- RAY GATES Have You Ever Had The Blues (Alternative Take)
- PAULA AND THE JETLINERS I Know Some Day
- MAYNELL WILSON Motown Feeling
- BB JAMES AND DERV Kiss Me, Kiss Me
- BLUE RIVERS AND HIS MAROONS Take It Or Leave It
- McFARTHING KISSOON I’m Living Good
- LARIS McLENNON Confusion
- FREDDY MACK Sock It To ‘Em, J.B. (Live)
- THE REACTION That Man
- BLACK VELVET African Velvet
- RICO’S COMBO London Here I Come
- MILLIE My Love And I
- LAUREL AITKEN Bar Tender
- WINSTON GROOVY Work It Up
- PAT RHODEN Jezebel
- KING HORROR Cutting Blade
- BERESFORD RICKETTS & THE BLUE BEATS You Better Be Gone
- THE CLASSICS Worried Over Me
- SONNY AND THE DAFFODILS That Girl She Done Me Wrong
- THE BRIXTON MARKET Children Get Ready
- TONY WASHINGTON AND THE D.C.’s Show Me How (To Milk A Cow)
- JOE’S ALL STARS Musical Feet
- THE FABULOUS BLUE BEATS One More Try
- THE RUDIES Boss Sound
- BOBBY JOHNSON AND THE ATOMS Another Man
- LAUREL AND GIRLIE Scandal In Brixton Market
- AMBROSE CAMPBELL Hey Jude
- SUGAR ‘N’ DANDY Girl Come See
- THE GRUVY BEATS Kent People
- THE BLUEBEATERS There I Go
- WINSTON AND PAT Pony Ride
- TOP GRANT Coronation Street
- SEVEN LETTERS Call Collect
- DIMPLES AND EDDIE With RICO’S COMBO Fleet Street
- CAB KAYE With HIS MUSIC FROM GHANA Everything Is Go
- CY GRANT King Cricket
- THE BARNABY RUDGE HIP BAND Run Thru The Park
- RUPERT AND THE RED DEVILS Please Think Of Me
- SHIRLEY BASSEY Sunshine
- MAXINE NIGHTINGALE Spinning Wheel
- PETER STRAKER Breakfast In Bed
- PEANUT I’m Waiting For The Day
- MEL TURNER They Killed The King
- JOY MARSHALL Heartache Hurry On By
- ELDRIDGE DEVLIN You’re My Girl
- CLEO To Know Him Is To Love Him
- LORRAINE CHILD You
- DORRIS HENDERSON AND JOHN RENBOURN Watch The Stars
- MABEL HILLERY Rock Me Daddy
- CHAMPION JACK DUPREE With T.S. MCPHEE Get Your Head Happy
- OTIS SPANN Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
- SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS All Night
- JOE HARRIOTT QUINTET Liggin’
- FLASH DOMINCII & THE SUPERSONICS Rora Rora Majo Omo Pupa
- SHAKE KEANE Green Onions
- THE NEW ORLEANS KNIGHTS Enjoy Yourself
- THE CHARIOTS Problem Girl
- THE SOUTHLANDERS Imitation Of Love
- WINIFRED ATWELL Bossa Nova Boogie
- EMILE FORD AND THE BIG SIX Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
- HOWIE CASEY AND THE SENIORS I Ain’t Mad At You
- RICKY WAYNE With THE FABULOUS FLEE- RACKERS Chicka’roo
- RAY ELLINGTON The Rhythm Of The World
- THE RAY KING SOUL BAND Soon You’ll Be Gone
- FITZROY COLEMAN AND HIS GUITARS Lucilla
- DAVY JONES Love Bug
- GEOFF LOVE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Coronation Street
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