Bobby Purify Better To Have It (CD)
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Bobby Purify: Better To Have It (CD)
Dieses brandneue Album des Soul-, Gospel- und R&B-Sängers Ben Moore (a.k.a. Bobby Purify) bringt ihn nach mehr als vierzig Jahren wieder mit dem Produzenten Dan Penn zusammen, und das Ergebnis ist nicht weniger als großartig.
Moores charakteristischer Gesang wird von den originalen Muscle Shoals-Rhythmusspielern David Hood, Spooner Oldham und Jimmie Johnson sowie von Memphis-Größen wie Reggie Young, Wayne Jackson und anderen begleitet.
Das Album mit Linernotes des legendären Produzenten Jerry Wexler wirbt mit zwölf neuen Songs, die Dan Penn zusammen mit Malaco-Session-Leiter Carson Whitsett und Nashville-Songwriter-Veteran Bucky Lindsey geschrieben hat.
Es ist eine frische Fortsetzung ihrer von der Kritik gefeierten Zusammenarbeit „Don?t Give Up On Me“, die auf Solomon Burkes gleichnamiger, mit einem Grammy ausgezeichneter Veröffentlichung zu hören ist.
Die Grundtitel wurden analog live im Studio aufgenommen, ganz ähnlich wie die Hunderte anderer Hit-Aufnahmen, die diese Musikerkonstellation zu ihrem gemeinsamen Verdienst gemacht hat.
Artikeleigenschaften von Bobby Purify: Better To Have It (CD)
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Interpret: Bobby Purify
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Albumtitel: Better To Have It (CD)
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Label PROPER
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Genre R&B, Soul
- Preiscode VCD5
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 0805520030229
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| Purify, Bobby - Better To Have It (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Better To Have It | Bobby Purify | ||
| 02 | I'm Qualified | Bobby Purify | ||
| 03 | Things Happen | Bobby Purify | ||
| 04 | What's Old to You | Bobby Purify | ||
| 05 | Forever Changed | Bobby Purify | ||
| 06 | My Life To Live Over | Bobby Purify | ||
| 07 | Nobody's Home | Bobby Purify | ||
| 08 | Somebody's Gotta Do It | Bobby Purify | ||
| 09 | Hate To See You Go | Bobby Purify | ||
| 10 | The Pond | Bobby Purify | ||
| 11 | Testimony Of A Fool | Bobby Purify | ||
| 12 | You Make Me Dig | Bobby Purify | ||
James & Bobby Purify
I'm Your Puppet
James & Bobby Purify
I'm Your Puppet
Despite their brotherly billing, James & Bobby Purify weren't related by blood—just their shared soul. James Purify was born May 12, 1944 in Pensacola, Florida, while Robert Lee Dickey was a Tallahassee native, born September 2, 1939. "I started with a band in 1959,” says Bobby. "Just a little house band that didn't have no name.” Bobby joined the Dothan Sextet in 1963, James coming aboard in '65. "Mighty Sam came before James did,” said Bobby. "He sung with us, I guess about a year or so.”
Papa Don Schroeder, a Pensacola deejay on WBSR and a singer with 45s on Vee-Jay and Philips, discovered the pair. "(Mighty) Sam McClain and I went to Tom's Tavern, and I heard the Dothan Sextet. And James Purify was the lead singer, and Robert Lee Dickey was the guitar player,” says Papa Don. "I said, 'Look, man, I'll sign both of you guys. I want to do two sides on you, and two sides on you. Let's go to Muscle Shoals!'” Organist Barry Beckett came along for the ride, but no one brought any fresh material. Schroeder dug through boxes of demo tapes that Rick Hall kept on hand at his Fame Studios. "A couple of hours later, Papa Don came down from upstairs and said, 'I got one here!'” says keyboardist Spooner Oldham. What he'd unearthed was I'm Your Puppet, penned by Spooner and writing partner Dan Penn, whose own version had come out on MGM in 1965. James and Bobby were none too enthusiastic.
"I don't think either one of 'em liked the song from the get-go,” says Schroeder. "Dickey just couldn't get it, man. He was trying to sing lead. I was trying to get a real soulful guy to do 'I'm Your Puppet.' James Purify said, 'Hey, man, here's what he's talking about!' He started doing the lead. I said, 'Dickey, do the harmony!'” A new duo was born. Papa Don called Bell Records boss Larry Uttal in New York to rave about his latest act. Uttal inquired as to their name. "Purify, I thought was the funkiest soulful name I ever heard in my life,” says Schroeder. "I named 'em James & Bobby Purify on the telephone, talking to Larry Uttal.”
The gentle yet insistent I'm Your Puppet ended up a #6 pop and #5 R&B smash on Bell. Plenty more hits by the pair followed: Wish You Didn't Have To Go, Shake A Tail Feather, and Let Love Come Between Us in '67 and Do Unto Me and Help Yourself (To All Of My Lovin') the next year, all produced by Schroeder in either Muscle Shoals, Memphis, or Pensacola. Bobby left towards the end of the Bell tenure, and James proved so unreliable that Papa Don called it quits. "I had to walk away from him,” says Schroeder, who nonetheless reconciled with James during the mid-'70s to reform the duo with Ben Moore, formerly of Ben & Spence, as the new Bobby. The Purifys made albums for Casablanca and Mercury before going their separate ways once more.
- Bill Dahl -
Various - Sweet Soul Music
Various - Sweet Soul Music 29 Scorching Classics From 1966
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