Description
Release Date: 2022
Label: Acrobat Music
Track List
Disc: 1
- St. Louis Blues
- Since I Fell For You
- Love That Man Of Mine
- Them There Eyes
- Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me
- I Still Love You
- One Sweet Letter From You
- I Love You Yes I Do
- Wondering Blues
- Voodoo Man
- Lonely Blues
- Annie’s Blues
- Waiting For You
- Cuttin’ Out
- My Rough And Ready Man
- Baby What’s New
- Blue And Disgusted
- I’ll Never Be Free
- I Ain’t Gonna Let You In
- I Need Your Love
- Just One More Chance
- Now That You’ve Gone
- Get Me Some Money
- Cryin’ Sighin’ Dyin’
- I Don’t Get My Kicks Anymore
Disc: 2
- Lonesome And Blue
- I Feel So Right Tonight
- You Belong To Me
- Give Me Half A Chance
- Stop Talkin’ And Start Walkin’
- It’s Been A Long Time
- In The Mood For You
- Feeling The Need
- Rockin’ And Rollin’
- You Promised Love
- It Hurts To Be In Love
- Hand In Hand
- It Must Be You
- Please Honey Don’t Go
- You’re The Only One For Me
- Out Of My Mind
- Love Is A Funny Thing
- Nobody’s Gonna Hurt You Baby
- Someday, Someway
- Hold On To What You Got
- Since I Fell For You
- Lost Love
- If You’re Lonely
- It’s Gonna Come Out In The Wash Someday
- Trouble In Mind
- Time Out For Tears
Notes
Annie Laurie was an R&B, blues and sophisticated jazz and pop singer born in Atlanta, Ga., in 1924, who came to prominence in 1947 with her debut hit “Since I Fell For You”, and over the next 15 years recorded and released material which brought her several more successes in both pop and R&B charts, recording for much of the early era of her career with a trio and band led by pianist and songwriter Paul Gayten. At the start of her career she recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s legendary J&M Studios in New Orleans, which gave her work from those years a distinctive Crescent City sound. This excellent- value 51-track 2-CD set comprises comprising most of the A & B sides of her releases on the Cosmo, De Luxe, Regal, Okeh, Savoy and Ritz labels from this era, including performances with the bands of Paul Gayten and Danny Kessler, as she rode the waves of the upheavals in the market occasioned by the advent of rock ‘n’ roll to take her hit-making career into the 1960s. It features all her career pop and R&B chart entries, including the R&B No. 3 hits “Since I Fell For You” and “It Hurts To Be In Love”, and her other Top 10 hits “Cuttin’ Out” and “I’ll Never Be Free”. She was a highly versatile vocal stylist, equally at home with upbeat jump blues material, grooving R&B songs, and smoothly polished jazz-flavoured pop, and this collection provides a varied and entertaining showcase for her distinctive talent
