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| 1. Stolen Hours | |||
| 2. Lucky My Boy | |||
| 3. Ecstasy | |||
| 4. Love And Desire | |||
| 5. That's All You Got To Do | |||
| 6. Stay With Your Own Kind | |||
| 7. Evidence | |||
| 8. That's The Chance You Gotta Take | |||
| 9. Black Mother Goose | |||
| 10. The Touch Of Venus | |||
| 11. Those Dj Shows | |||
| 12. For The Love Of Mike | |||
| 13. Stevie | |||
| 14. My 2 Arms - You = Tears | |||
| 15. Come Into My Palace - With Brenda Holloway | |||
| 16. All That's Good | |||
| 17. I Got To Change | |||
| 18. Tall Boy | |||
| 19. Flippitty Flop | |||
| 20. The Go Gang | |||
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* Patrice Holloway was the younger sister of Motown star Brenda. In 2009 we released "The Early Years", a collection of Brenda's rare pre-Motown recordings. Now it's the turn of Patrice, who died in 2006 aged just 55.
* Kent had hoped to issue the two CDs simultaneously, but some projects take longer than others to reach fruition. In the meantime, Kent have been able to track down some great shots of the rarely-photographed Patrice and have been granted official access to the Motown master tape vaults, which goes to make the wait all the more worthwhile.
* The Holloway sisters were the first West Coast artists to be signed by Berry Gordy to Motown in 1963. Brenda scored immediately with `Every Little Bit Hurts', released when she was just 17. Patrice was less fortunate and was advised by Gordy to graduate from school before continuing her singing career. None of the tracks she cut for Motown were issued at the time.
* In 1966 she signed with Capitol Records, where she released excellent singles such as `Ecstasy' and `Love & Desire'. They made little impression at the time, but became big favourites on the British Northern Soul scene in the 1970s.
* Spanning the years 1963-1971, "Love & Desire: The Patrice Holloway Anthology" comprises each of the nine solo tracks issued in her name on Capitol and her complete Motown recordings, ten of them previously unissued.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Brenda Holloway's little sister was one of a host of incredible vocalists based in Los Angeles. Her career included innumerable backing vocal jobs, supplying a singing voice for a cartoon girl group (the famous Josie & The Pussycats - look out for the CD released by Rhino Handmade for these recordings), and cutting five singles for Capitol Records. The Capitol tracks are uniformly excellent.
Just to prove what a talented crowd Patrice was a part of, the CD liner notes include testimonials from Billie Barnum, Sherlie Matthews, Edna Wright, Stephanie Spruill, Clydie King, Blinky Williams, Gloria Jones, Merry Clayton and Thelma Houston. - a truly amazing line-up of talent.
Patrice recorded as an Ikette for Phil Spector's Phi-Dan label and as one of The Belles for Mirwood records, as we learn from Dennis Garvey's detailed and fascinating liner notes.
A host of Motown's West Coast talent was involved in the Capitol recordings, amongst them Gene and Billy Page, Kay & Helen Lewis, and Willie Hutch, so these blend perfectly with the Motown label sounds. Interestingly, Patrice made just one trip to record in Detroit, usually recording in L.A. with music industry stalwarts Hal Davis and Marc Gordon and sometimes recording her vocals onto a Detroit recorded backing track.
Concentrating on the Motown recordings, Patrice's earliest songs sound a little like Stevie Wonder's early recordings. Some of the songs have styles reminiscent of other artists - the wonderful TALL BOY sounds like it was tailor-made for The Supremes - the superb FACE IN THE CROWD sounds like a great girl group record from the likes of The Cookies or The Butterflys - for example. The cover version of the Miracles' ALL THAT'S GOOD is another stand-out. I confess to being very impressed with the material we haven't heard before and most of it is better than the stuff which has already leaked from the vaults. The track CRYING has the most bizarre intro and is perhaps the best track on the CD. Northern Soul fans will delight in hearing the original version of THE TOUCH OF VENUS, another classic from the hands of Ed Cobb (of TAINTED LOVE fame).
It is great to have the strands of Patrice's story threaded into a whole mini-musical biography. The liner notes will be of great interest to Supremes and Diana Ross fans. Some fascinating facts have emerged.
Patrice's story has a tragic end and Dennis Garvey's notes sensitively tell the tale.
This is a remarkable testament to the talent of one of the great West Coast girls.
Just to prove what a talented crowd Patrice was a part of, the CD liner notes include testimonials from Billie Barnum, Sherlie Matthews, Edna Wright, Stephanie Spruill, Clydie King, Blinky Williams, Gloria Jones, Merry Clayton and Thelma Houston. - a truly amazing line-up of talent.
Patrice recorded as an Ikette for Phil Spector's Phi-Dan label and as one of The Belles for Mirwood records, as we learn from Dennis Garvey's detailed and fascinating liner notes.
A host of Motown's West Coast talent was involved in the Capitol recordings, amongst them Gene and Billy Page, Kay & Helen Lewis, and Willie Hutch, so these blend perfectly with the Motown label sounds. Interestingly, Patrice made just one trip to record in Detroit, usually recording in L.A. with music industry stalwarts Hal Davis and Marc Gordon and sometimes recording her vocals onto a Detroit recorded backing track.
Concentrating on the Motown recordings, Patrice's earliest songs sound a little like Stevie Wonder's early recordings. Some of the songs have styles reminiscent of other artists - the wonderful TALL BOY sounds like it was tailor-made for The Supremes - the superb FACE IN THE CROWD sounds like a great girl group record from the likes of The Cookies or The Butterflys - for example. The cover version of the Miracles' ALL THAT'S GOOD is another stand-out. I confess to being very impressed with the material we haven't heard before and most of it is better than the stuff which has already leaked from the vaults. The track CRYING has the most bizarre intro and is perhaps the best track on the CD. Northern Soul fans will delight in hearing the original version of THE TOUCH OF VENUS, another classic from the hands of Ed Cobb (of TAINTED LOVE fame).
It is great to have the strands of Patrice's story threaded into a whole mini-musical biography. The liner notes will be of great interest to Supremes and Diana Ross fans. Some fascinating facts have emerged.
Patrice's story has a tragic end and Dennis Garvey's notes sensitively tell the tale.
This is a remarkable testament to the talent of one of the great West Coast girls.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Patrice was the younger sister of Brenda Holloway. This collection pulls together all Patrice's Capitol sides, the handful of Motown tracks that had been released and 10 previously unissued Motown songs from the vaults. I love everything about this album. As usual Ace have produced a first class booklet which is stuffed with info about Patrice much of which was news to me and came as something of a shock. There's some lovely pix that I'd never seen before and the music of course is marvellous.
The Capitol singles comes first and it's so nice to have them altogether with my favourite being 'Stay With Your Own Kind' which was really ahead of it's time. Track 10 sees the start of the Motown songs the first four of which are well known. Her cover of Mary Well's 'My 2 Arms - You = Tears' is the first vaulted track. For a girl who at that time was only about 12-13 she does an amazing version. Another song that she covered was the Miracles 'All That's Good' which I knew better by Barbara McNair. The rest of the 'new' tracks are just as enjoyable especially 'Flippitty Flop', 'Crying' & 'Face In The Crowd'. My overall favourite track is 'Love Walked Right In' which to me is worth the price of the album. It's sad that Patrice did not live to see herself finally receive the recognition she deserved.
Thanks to Keith, Mick and all who helped make this dream come true.
The Capitol singles comes first and it's so nice to have them altogether with my favourite being 'Stay With Your Own Kind' which was really ahead of it's time. Track 10 sees the start of the Motown songs the first four of which are well known. Her cover of Mary Well's 'My 2 Arms - You = Tears' is the first vaulted track. For a girl who at that time was only about 12-13 she does an amazing version. Another song that she covered was the Miracles 'All That's Good' which I knew better by Barbara McNair. The rest of the 'new' tracks are just as enjoyable especially 'Flippitty Flop', 'Crying' & 'Face In The Crowd'. My overall favourite track is 'Love Walked Right In' which to me is worth the price of the album. It's sad that Patrice did not live to see herself finally receive the recognition she deserved.
Thanks to Keith, Mick and all who helped make this dream come true.
An excellent compilation of soulful songs from a soulful lady whose career was tragically cut short and so not achieving her enormous potential.A worthy sister to the more well known Brenda.
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