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| 1. Wallflower - Etta James & The Peaches | |||
| 2. Hold Me Squeeze Me - Etta James & The Peaches | |||
| 3. Hey Henry | |||
| 4. Be Mine | |||
| 5. Good Rockin' Daddy | |||
| 6. Crazy Feeling | |||
| 7. WOMAN | |||
| 8. That's All | |||
| 9. My One And Only | |||
| 10. I'm A Fool | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Baby Baby Every Night | |||
| 2. Sunshine Of Love | |||
| 3. How Big A Fool | |||
| 4. If It Ain't One Thing - Betty & Dupree | |||
| 5. I Hope Your Satisfied - Betty & Dupree | |||
| 6. Dance With Me Henry | |||
| 7. Don't You Remember | |||
| 8. Hickory Dickory Dock | |||
| 9. Nobody Loves You Like Me | |||
| 10. We're In Love - Betty & Dupree | |||
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• Thoroughly ‘Modern’ Etta – here’s a long-overdue, definitive 2CD set containing one take of every recording Ms James made for Modern and Kent Records between 1954 and 1958, plus every surviving significant alternate take - remastered from the original Modern tape sources.
• This repertoire was recorded in New Orleans and Los Angeles between 1954 and 1958, and features nothing but the cream of each city’s session musicians.
• Many of the tracks here are undisputed R & B Hall Of Fame classics, including ‘The Wallflower’ (a.k.a. Roll With Me Henry), ‘Good Rockin’ Daddy’, ‘The Pick-Up’ and the wild and crazy ‘Tough Lover’.
• Etta James is now rightly revered as one of R & B’s greatest ‘Living Legends’, her reputation assured by a catalogue that spans over half a century. These are the tracks that forged Etta’s reputation as one of R&B’s all-time finest female talents.
• This is the first time that they have all been reissued in the same place, at the same time – and they have never, ever sounded as good as they do here.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
one of the great voices of the 20th century starts here,
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This review is from: The Complete Modern And Kent Recordings (Audio CD)
This exhaustive compilation contains Etta James's entire Modern and Kent recordings from the mid- to late 1950s, her earliest recordings made between the ages of 16 and 20. Things started auspiciously with her answer record to Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' Work With Me Annie, The Wallflower, renamed from its original, and obvious title, Roll With Me Henry in an attempt to sell more copies to white people and featuring an uncredited cameo by the man who wrote and first recorded Louie Louie, Richard Berry. This was quite a risque record for a 16 year-old girl to issue and it shot straight to the top of the US R&B charts, becoming one of the biggest selling records of 1955. A further attempt to cash in on the "Henry" craze (Hey Henry) failed to hit and, nearly a year after her debut, she unleashed Good Rockin' Daddy, one of the greatest R&B records of the 1950s, on which her scorching vocals were matched by a superbly tight and swinging band. For some unaccountable reason this was her last hit for over four years, and Modern put a lot of effort into reversing her lack of success with a variety of styles including ballads (Crazy Feeling), more answer records (W-O-M-A-N, a response to Bo Diddley's I'm A Man), novelties (Shortnin' Bread Rock), duets with Harvey Fuqua (as Betty & Dupree) and a convincing attempt to beat Little Richard at his own game (Tough Lover) as well as more typical or generic R&B. But she was unable to repeat the success of her first and third singles until she left Modern and moved on to Chess in the early 1960s.
Despite its lack of success at the time, most of the music on this compilation is highly entertaining - while it is very much of its time, and a few of the songs are perhaps unsuitable or not of sufficient quality for her talents, she always gives her (very considerable) all vocally so that even the slightest songs are a pleasure to listen to. The second disc ends with a number of previously unissued out-takes. These give the impression that choosing the correct take to issue must have been very difficult, as they reveal no fluffs or notably inferior performances; on the other hand, they differ insufficiently from the issued takes in most cases to make them really essential. Though perhaps not the ideal place to start with Etta James - that would probably be a compilation of her Chess recordings from the 1960s - these recordings compare very favourably with those of most of her contemporaries, most of whom would really be scraping a barrel to fill two CDs from less than four years of recordings. Perhaps a single CD of this stuff would be enough for most people, but given the price, and the pleasure of listening to her voice on every single track here, maybe I should stop damning with faint praise and just say buy it, it contains some of the best singing you'll ever hear.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Possibly the true queen of soul?,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Complete Modern And Kent Recordings (Audio CD)
With each new collection of Etta James which comes available I am more and more impressed with the depth of her talent and the range of her emotional engagement with the material. In this collection of masters recordings from Modern and Kent Records Etta James sings against very traditional 1950s R&B arrangements, often singing much covered material. However her tremendous delivery conveys more passion and longing and hurt than her contemporaries could. Aretha Franklin's status is beyond question - so should Etta James's reputation with everyone who loves soul. Magnificent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Miss Peaches,
By Sasha "lampic" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Modern And Kent Recordings (Audio CD)
The photo on the cover of this excellent compilation shows adorable young and smiling Etta James at the time when she was promoted as "Miss Peaches" and honestly I could just kiss that picture,she was such a cutie - photo itself is worth the price,not to mention music inside of the package.Lovingly collected and compiled by "Ace records" this anthology has all her early "Modren" and "Kent" recordings in one place,delicious singles from early rock & doo woop era and some alternative takes that actually sound better than released singles.Because of her youth,I don't believe James had much to say in choice of material (her mother,initialy against this music,signed as a composer on some of the songs here) but even on some fairly pedestrian material she is full of fire & charm that lifts songs into stratosphere.True,she might have been influenced by Rosetta Tharpe,Lula Reed,LaVern Baker or Ruth Brown (its easy to imaghine Brown singing some of this songs,like "Thats all") but even at this very early stage its clear its clear she was very much herself and was not imitating anyone.I dare anybody familiar with her later excellent soul & blues work not to be thrilled when this recognisable but so young voice growls through delightful "Shortnin' bread rock".Excellent,excellent CD and Im so glad for "Ace records" to have it released. (P.S. If you like this,you might enjoy "The best of Little Esther",her contemporary.)
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