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Recensie

Wat een heerlijke verzamelaar op het Kent Label, met 25 soulsongs uit de jaren ’50 tot 1966, waaronder songs van bekende namen als Don Covay en Van McCoy maar ook onbekendere namen. Een aantal songs krijgen hun debuut op CD. Zoals we van Kent/Ace gewend zijn is niet alleen de kwaliteit van de muziek uitstekend, maar is ook de geluidskwaliteit uitstekend en wordt de CD vergezeld van een uiterst informatief boekwerkje.


Al Sears’ NYC stable of labels and publishing created superb black music from the 50s through to 1966.

Kent are in it for the long haul. Although our first volume of recordings from Al Sears’ Arock and Sylvia labels was issued in 2002, we always intended to continue the story. Since then, more information has been garnered and further reviews of the tapes have revealed some musical treats and surprises. Take the opening track by the Corvairs, ‘Love Is Such A Good Thing’. We have learnt they are probably the same Corvairs who recorded for UA and Columbia and that ‘Deep Down Inside’ on our first CD is by them, rather than an unknown artist. We also now know that Garrett Saunders was in the first incarnation of the duo Gary & Gary, and that the B-side of Tutti Hill’s ‘He’s A Lover’ was identified on the label as ‘When The Going Gets Rough’ but actually played ‘Baby Take It Slow’. ‘When The Going Gets Rough’ gets its CD debut here.

Elsewhere, the highly rated Junior Lewis demos two early 60s songs and adds a terrific call-and-response chorus to Marie Knight’s powerful demo of ‘Nothing In The World’, a song he wrote, while Don Covay shows that Sears’ Rual and Sylvia publishing companies took their demos seriously, particularly on numbers such as Covay’s big city ballad ‘Did You Hear’. ‘Get In My Arms Little Girlie’ is an extended stomping blues from Sterling Magee, and Joan Moody sings her final release, ‘Music To My Ears’, and the unissued but equally fine ‘I Can’t Stay Away’, which we issued on a Kent 45 last year. Ansler Montell’s ‘Chained Am I’, another recent Kent single, also makes its CD debut.

We also look at the work of producer/songwriters Ron Miller and Lee Porter in more detail and examine Sears’ Serock label in depth. The extended version of Theola Kilgore’s ‘This Is My Prayer’, previously available only on a Kent LP in the 80s, sounds amazing on CD. Her Los Angeles stable-mate Sinner Strong also gives a performance worthy of goose-bumps. Vivian Collins’ ‘Hey Officer’ stems from Sears’ dalliance with early Detroit soul and the Larks’ offering shows he also went for the Philly sound. Van McCoy’s 1964 offering demonstrates his talent as a songwriter and vocalist, while he and his brother’s studio group the D.C. Playboys also feature and the Diplomats perform his fabulous beat ballad ‘I Really Love You’.

Tracks

Disc 1
1. Love Is Such A Good Thing
2. Get In My Arms Little Girlie
3. Take My Hand
4. When The Going Gets Rough
5. I Can'T Stay Away
6. I'M Leavin' (For Parts Unknown)
7. I Really Love You
8. I Keep Comin' Back For More
9. I Don'T Care
10. Chained Am I
11. Hey Officer
12. This Is My Prayer
13. Nobody But Me
14. It Ain'T No Big Thing
15. You Were All I Needed
16. Music To My Ears
17. I Wanna Come In
18. Something Else
19. Nothing In The World
20. Easier Said Than Done
21. It Won'T Work Out
22. Where You Are
23. Did You Hear
24. Kindness, Love And Understanding
25. Another Sleepless Night

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