Description
Release Date: 2022
Label: Jasmine Records
Track List
- 1 Bobby Fields
- 2 Give a Helping Hand
- 3 Pity Poor Me
- 4 Little Girl of Mine
- 5 Chickee Wah-Wah
- 6 Don’t Take Your Love from Me
- 7 I Know
- 8 I’ll Never Let You Go
- 9 I Can’t Stop Loving You
- 10 You Can’t Stop Her
- 11 Rockin Behind the Iron Curtain
- 12 Oh Me Oh My
- 13 Hush Your Mouth
- 14 Snoopin’ and Accusin’
- 15 This Is the Life
- 16 There’s Something on Your Mind Part 1
- 17 There’s Something on Your Mind Part 2
- 18 It Hurts Me to My Heart
- 19 You’re Still My Baby Part 1
- 20 You’re Still My Baby Part 2
- 21 All in My Mind
- 22 I Miss You So
- 23 What You Don’t Know Don’t Hurt You
- 24 I Need Someone (I Need You)
- 25 Things I Used to Do (Pt. 1)
- 26 Things I Used to Do (Pt. 2)
- 27 Yes, It’s Written All Over Your Face
- 28 Look at My Heart
Notes
The flamboyant, ultra-extraordinary Bobby Marchan (born Oscar James Gibson) was an outstanding R&B/Soul singer, songwriter, bandleader, MC and female impersonator, who enjoyed successes both solo and as the occasional singer with Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns. This compilation is drawn from Marchan’s solo recordings for Johnny Vincent’s Ace and Bobby Robinson’s Fire labels between 1954-62, and feature some of the earliest examples of Soul music on record, most notably his dramatic 1960 R&B #1 ‘There’s Something On Your Mind (parts 1 & 2)’. His first Ace 45rpm ‘Give A Helping Hand’/’Pity Poor Me’ (1954), included herein, was issued as Bobby Fields, as he was signed to another label at the time. Other collectables in this set include ‘Chickee Wah-Wah’, ‘I’ll Never Let You Go’, ‘You Can’t Stop Her’, ‘You’re Still My Baby’ and ‘Things I Used To Do’. This is the first time that this remarkable, Soul-drenched body of work has been thus compiled.
