Four Classic Albums (Lavern / Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / Blues Ballads)
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Lavern Baker
Four Classic Albums (Lavern / Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / Blues Ballads)
[ Avid / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 September 2017
Born Delores Evans in Chicago in 1928, LaVern Baker was following a well-worn path for female singers and playing in clubs around the Chicago area as early as 1951 under such names as Miss Sharecropper and Bea Baker (under which name she recorded for Okeh Records in 1951). As LaVern Baker she signed to Atlantic Records in 1953 and had a series of R&B hits over the next few years including "Tweedle Dee", "Bop Ting A Ling" and the all-time classic, "Jim Dandy" which would sell a million copies and go on to be voted Number 343 in Rolling Stones Top 500 All Time Greatest Songs as well as being voted as one of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame's greatest songs to have shaped Rock N Roll!
Tracks:
CD1
1. Lots And Lots Of Love (LaVern)
2. Of Course I Do (LaVern)
3. You'll Be Crying (LaVern)
4. Miracles (LaVern)
5. I'm In A Crying Mood (LaVern)
6. Mine All Mine (LaVern)
7. Harbor Lights (LaVern)
8. I'll Never Be Free (LaVern)
9. Romance In The Dark (LaVern)
10. Everybody's Somebody's Fool (LaVern)
11. How Long Will It Be (LaVern)
12. Fool That I Am (LaVern)
13. Jim Dandy (LaVern Baker)
14. Tra La La (LaVern Baker)
15. I Can't Love You Enough (LaVern Baker)
16. Get Up, Get Up (You Sleepy Head) (LaVern Baker)
17. That's All I Need (LaVern Baker)
18. Bop-Ting-A-Ling (LaVern Baker)
19. Tweedle Dee (LaVern Baker)
20. Still (LaVern Baker)
21. Play It Fair (LaVern Baker)
22. Tomorrow Night (LaVern Baker)
23. That Lucky Old Sun (LaVern Baker)
24. Soul On Fire (LaVern Baker)
25. My Happiness Forever (LaVern Baker)
26. How Can You Leave A Man Like This? (LaVern Baker)
CD2
1. Gimme A Pigfoot (Sings Bessie Smith)
2. Baby Doll (Sings Bessie Smith)
3. On Revival Day (Sings Bessie Smith)
4. Money Blues (Sings Bessie Smith)
5. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle (Sings Bessie Smith)
6. Back Water Blues (Sings Bessie Smith)
7. Empty Bed Blues (Sings Bessie Smith)
8. There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight (Sings Bessie Smith)
9. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (Sings Bessie Smith)
10. After You've Gone (Sings Bessie Smith)
11. Young Woman's Blues (Sings Bessie Smith)
12. Preaching The Blues (Sings Bessie Smith)
13. I Cried A Tear (Blues Ballads)
14. If You Love Me (Blues Ballads)
15. You're Teasing Me (Blues Ballads)
16. Love Me Right (Blues Ballads)
17. Dix-A-Billy (Blues Ballads)
18. So High, So Low (Blues Ballads)
19. I Waited Too Long (Blues Ballads)
20. Why Baby Why (Blues Ballads)
21. Humpty Dumpty Heart (Blues Ballads)
22. It's So Fine (Blues Ballads)
23. Whipper Snapper (Blues Ballads)
24. St. Louis Blues (Blues Ballads)
