Jan BradleyMAMA DIDN’T LIEBradley was born in Byhalia, Mississippi, United States, and grew up in Robbins, Illinois. She was noticed by manager Don Talty (who also managed Phil Upchurch) at a high school talent show singing with the Passions. After graduating, she auditioned for Curtis Mayfield, and soon recorded the Mayfield-penned “We Girls”, which became a hit regionally Adanti, Hootenanny, Doylen, Spectra Sound, in the Midwest (on Talty’s Formal Records label). and Night Owl labels.Several singles followed, and another Mayfield song originally issued on Formal, “Mama Didn’t Lie” (b/w “Lovers Like Me”), was released nationally in the U.S. by Chess Records in 1963 and hit No. 8 US Billboard R&B chart and No. 14 Chicago and has two children named Timothy on the Billboard Hot 100.Following the single’s success, Mayfield and Chess got into a legal battle over the publishing rights to Mayfield’s songs, and as a result Bradley was no longer able to work with him. She started writing her own songs and released several further singles on Chess. “I’m Over You” hit No. 24 R&B in 1965; other Chess releases included “Just a Summer Memory” b/w “He’ll Wait on Me”, “It’s Just Your Way”, and “These Tears” b/w “Baby What Can I Do”. Bradley continued working with Talty after her arrangement with Chess ended, releasing singles for the smaller Bradley stopped singing professionally in the early 1970s; she raised a family and became a social worker. She resides in the south suburbs of and Jamila. She is also the grandmother of three and continues to sing in her church choir. Her records remained popular among devotees of Northern soul. Her catalog of music, both writing and singing, includes soul, pop and rock and roll.shapemedia.uk 51 | 6 36 3
THE LOVE OF MY MAN© THEOLA KILGOREThe love of my manKeeps me safe and warmThe love of my man protects me from all harm‘Cause I know that he loves meAnd I know that I-I love himAnd oh, the love-a, love-a, love of my manMakes my whole liife worth livingAll the love, the love of my manMakes me feel just like givingAnd oh, when his lips, when his lips are on mineGives me a feeling that’s so divine, oh yeahWhen he goes away, I’m never, no, no, no, I’m never lonelyOh, ‘cause I know that he thinks of me onlyAnd no matter, no matter, what my friends may sayI’ll keep on lovin’ him any way, oh, yes I willOh, the love of my manOh, early in the morning and late at nightI love to talk about the love of my manYeah-ah, the love of my manHis precious love| 52 shapemedia.uk1 9 1 9
Theola KilgoreTHE LOVE OF MY MANKilgore was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was brought up in Oakland, California. She began singing in church. Her first recording, on which she was billed as Theola Kilgord, was as the featured vocalist on “Look to the Hills” by the Mount Zion Spiritual Choir, released in 1955. While working as a gospel singer in the late 1950s, she befriended Sam Cooke’s talent manager, J. W. Alexander, who introduced her to singer and record producer, Ed Townsend. Her first secular recording was “The Sound of My Man (Working on a Chain Gang)”, an answer record to Cooke’s 1960 hit, “Chain Gang”.Theola Kilgore would start her career off in good fashion with the track featured here – but beyond one additional Hot 100 appearance and a couple of “Bubbling Under” appearances – her hit record days were past.She was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925 – She transplanted to California and sang with the Mount Zion Spiritual Choir where she was their featured singer.Theola’s roots were in Gospel music and while growing up in Oakland, California she would make the acquaintance song writer/singer/band leader Ed Townsend. Ed would compose all eight sides for Theola’s first four singles. Ed’s compositions would permit Theola to journey outside of Gospel music and her first release would be an answer record to Sam Cooke’s “Chain Gang” titled “Sounds of My Man Working on the Chain Gang.”Theola would release her first single on the Candix label a full year ahead of the Beach Boys’ debut single.Townsend would compose many songs for prominent musicians including The Shirelles, The Blossoms, Joe Tex, Jerry Wallace, The Impressions, Hank Ballard, Freddie Scott and many more.Kilgore’s “The Love Of My Man” was a secular interpretation of “The Love Of God” a Gospel song recorded by The Soul Stirrers with Sam Cooke. Based on the success of that song, Theola hit the road heading to the South performing with prominent musicians.The success of “The Love Of My Man” allowed Kilgore to take her place on the flourishing “chitlin’” circuit and R&B/soul theater tours where she shared billings with top R&B names during the era. Theola took at shot at the pop market recording Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s “It’s Gonna Be Alright” in 1966 released on the Mercury label. Her career in the spotlight was short cutting her final 45 in 1966 on the Scepter Record label. Several of her tracks would chart on local radio survey’s but the days of national hits came to an end.Theola did not record a long play album but her “The Love Of My Man” appeared on many United Kingdom compilation LP’s. Theola Kilgore passed away in Los Angeles, California on May 15, 2005 at the age of 79.shapemedia.uk 53 | 6 36 3
| 54 shapemedia.ukWHAT KIND OF FOOL (Do You Think I Am)© The Tams What kind of fool what kind of foolWhat kind of fool do you think I amYou think I can (------? unclear)After we had made our plansSaid I’d be your number one manWhat kind of fool do you think I amDo you think I am do you think I amWhat kind of fool do you think I’d beYou said you really really loved meDarling you run around all over townYou build me up then you let me downWhat kind of fool do you think I amWhat do you think I amI ain’t gonna be your second choiceI’ve got to be your number oneOr I ain’t gonna love you at allDarling you run around all over townYou build me up then you let me downWhat kind of fool do you think I amDo you think I am babyDarling you can’t think thatDarling I’m no foolWhat kind of foo-oo-ool1 9 1 9
The TamsWHAT KIND OF FOOL ...What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)” is a 1964 single written by Ray Whitley and recorded by The Tams.. This track was of “Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me”, thanks to its initial one of the many hit records recorded at Rick Hall’s FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Musicians on this track included Norbert Putnam on bass, Jerry Carrigan on drums, David Briggs on piano, Terry Thompson and Earl “Peanut” Montgomery on guitar, and Jill Shires on flute.The single was the group’s most successful release on both the United States R&B and pop charts. “What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)” went to number one on the Cash Box R&B chart and peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, but continued to chart in the 1970s, and the 1980s. Two separate lineups of the group continue to perform and record. One lineup, called ‘The Original Tams with R. L. Smith’, features original House on the Moon, and also toured with him member Robert Lee Smith, and the other lineup is under the leadership of Little Red, the son of longtime member Charles Pope and the nephew of group co-founder Joe Pope.The band formed in 1960, and took their name from the Tam o’shanter hats they wore on stage. By 1962, they had a hit single on Arlen Records. “Untie Me”, a Joe South composition, became a Top 20 on the Billboard R&B chart. The follow-up releases largely failed until 1964, when “What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)”, reached the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Cash Box R&B chart. Many of their popular hits were written by Ray Whitley.“Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me” was also a modest US hit the same year. The Tams had only one further major US hit (in 1968) when “Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy”, peaked at #26 on the US R&B chart, and subsequently made the UK Top 40 in 1970.Their 1965 recording “I’ve Been Hurt” was their biggest regional hit (based on sales and airplay) prior to 1980.The group reached the Number one slot in the UK Singles Chart in September 1971, with the re-issue support from the then thriving UK Northern soul scene. The song also went to number one in Ireland, making them the first black soul group to top the Irish Charts.The group did not chart again until 1987, when their song “There Ain’t Nothing Like Shaggin’” reached #21 in UK, propelled by a regionally-popular dance known as the Carolina shag, which featured heavily in the subsequent 1989 film, Shag. However, the track was banned by the BBC because the word “shag” means “to have sexual intercourse” in colloquial British English.Still quite popular in the Southeastern United States, they continue to record new music and perform at well-attended concerts. In 1999, they were featured performers with Jimmy Buffett on his CD, Beach around the country.American singer-songwriter Tameka Harris, born in 1975, is the daughter of Dianne Cottle-Pope and Charles Pope. Charles Pope died from Alzheimer’s disease on July 11, 2013, at the age of 76.shapemedia.uk 55 | 6 36 3
HELLO TROUBLE © Orville Couch| 56 shapemedia.ukWoke up this mornin’, happy as could beI looked out my window, what’s that I seeComing’ up the sidewalk, just as plain as dayWell here comes trouble that I never thought I’d see since you went awayHello trouble come on inWell you talk about heartaches where in the world you beenWell, I ain’t had the miseries since you been goneWell hello trouble, trouble, troubleWelcome homeWe’ll make a pot of coffee and you can rest your shoesAnd you can tell me them sweet lies and I’ll listen to youWell it’s just a little part of, part of the life we’d liveBut I’d rather have a little bit of trouble than to never know the love you giveHello trouble, come on inWell you talk about heartaches, where in the world you beenAin’t had the miseries since you been goneWell hello trouble, trouble, troubleWelcome homeHello trouble, trouble, troubleWelcome home1 9 1 9
Orville CouchHELLO TROUBLEHello Trouble is a song written by Orville Couch and Eddie McDuff musician, singer song writer after and was recorded by Couch in 1962. Couch’s version made number 5 on the country charts that year, via Vee-Jay Records. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos also covered the song on the album Together Again, released in 1964. This version was later included on the soundtrack to Crazy Heart in 2009.LaWanda Lindsey covered the song in 1974 for Capitol Records. Her version charted at number 62.It was then recorded by American country music group The Desert Rose Band and released in July 1989 as the fourth and final single from the album, Running. The song reached #11 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The Desert Rose Band version features Herb Pedersen on lead vocals.Orville Couch (February 21, 1935 – May 26, 2002) was an American country music singer. He recorded one studio album for Vee Jay Records in 1963, in addition to appearing on radio shows. The album produced two singles on the Billboard country music charts: “Hello Trouble” at No. 5 and “Did I Miss You?” at No. 25. Couch died in 2002 of acute limphoblastic leukemia.Born on February 21st 1935 in Grapevine, Texas. Orville entered the career of comleting his education.Among the radio shows on which obscure honky-tonk singer-songwriter Couch appeared were Saturday Night Shindig on WFAA, and The Big ‘D’ Jamboree on KRLD. The latter was an early 50s show, produced by Ed McLemore, whereon the lines between country and rock ‘n’ roll were blurred. Others who were on the show in those years included Johnny Cash, Tony Douglas, Lefty Frizzell, Carl Perkins, and Gene Vincent. In later years, Couch would recall for interviewers how his appearance on this show, meant that his path crossed that of newcomer Elvis Presley. The songs Couch recorded on his sole 1963 recording session for Vee-Jay Records included the minor country hit ‘Hello Trouble’ and ‘Help Me Get My Cotton Gin’.shapemedia.uk 57 | 6 36 3
I’M LEAVING IT ALL UP TO YOUPerformed By Dale & GraceI’m leavin’ it all up to youTo decide what you’re gonna doNow, do you want my love?Or are we through?That’s why I’m leaving it up to youTo decide what you’re gonna doNow do you want my love?Or are we through?My heart in my handI, I, I don’t understandWhat have I, what have I done wrong?You know I worship the ground you walk onI’m leavin’ it all up to youTo decide what you’re gonna doNow, do you want my love?Or are we through?Or are we through?Or are we through?| 58 shapemedia.uk1 9 1 9
Dale & GraceI’M LEAVING IT ALL UP TO YOUI’m Leaving It Up to You is a song written by and originally performed by Don Harris and Dewey Terry in 1957.[ It was later popularized in 1963 by the American duo Dale and Grace, who took it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1974, Donny and Marie Osmond reached the top five on the US Hot 100 chart and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart with their cover.“I’m Leaving It Up to You” first became popular when recorded by the duo Dale and Grace in 1963. Their version became a #1 hit in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in late 1963, replacing “Deep Purple” by Nino Tempo & April Stevens but ending up one position lower than that record on the 1963 end-of-the-year chart. This situation was the first time that a duet immediately succeeded another duet at the top spot.The single also spent two weeks atop the easy listening chart. It was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Dale and Grace were in Dallas on the day of the murder. The duo was scheduled to perform that night as part of Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars (with Bobby Rydell, Jimmy Clanton, and Brian Hyland) and had waved to the president’s motorcade from a vantage point near their hotel, moments before the assassination. Needless to say, Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars was cancelled that night and the next night in Oklahoma.Dale Houston (April 23, 1940 – September 27, 2007) was an American singer who, along with his performing partner, Grace Broussard, hit the Billboard chart as Dale & Grace with two rock and roll singles. The first was the No. 1 gold record “I’m Leaving It Up to You” in 1963. “Stop and gave a musical tribute, and interment was in Smyrna Think It Over” reached No. 8 in 1964. In his later years, Houston was reunited onstage with Broussard on several occasions. Their recordings are highly regarded examples of the Louisiana-Texas style known as “Swamp Pop”.In 1963, Houston was working in a bar in Ferriday, Louisiana, a town near Natchez, Mississippi. Montel approached Houston about teaming up with a female singer, Grace Broussard (born 1939) of Prairieville, Louisiana near Baton Rouge. Both had been singing in area bistros for several years - Grace with her brother, Van Broussard (who later released an album on the Bayou Boogie label).The two met and practiced on Montel’s home piano for four hours. When Houston began to play a song written and recorded in 1957 by African-American performers Don and Dewey--”I’m Leaving it Up to You”—Montel, asleep in the next room, woke up screaming: “Play it again! That’s a hit!” The song was soon recorded and released locally on Montel’s Michelle label. According to The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, the song broke at Top 40 radio station KNUZ in Houston, where it was unanimously voted the “pick hit of the week” by the station’s panel of seven deejays. Montel wanted to change the arrangement of the violins, but was persuaded by the KNUZ deejays to leave it as it was. It was nationally distributed as Montel #921 by Philadelphia’s Jamie/Guyden Records after negotiations by producer Huey Meaux.Montel’s prophecy was vindicated when “I’m Leaving It Up to You” reached No. 1 on the U.S. chart, where it remained for two weeks. Dale and Grace performed on tour with another Louisiana singer, Jay Chevalier. The song was No. 1 during the week that Kennedy was assassinated and also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.Houston appeared on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. In autumn 1963, Houston and Broussard toured with his Caravan of Stars. The group, which also included Brian Hyland and Bobby Vee, was standing on a street corner on Main Street in Dallas waving at John F. Kennedy on that fateful day. Moments later, the presidential limousine turned right onto, ironically, Houston Street, then left onto Elm Street, where the president was killed and Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded. The stars had gone back to their hotel rooms after waving to Kennedy and did not hear about the assassination until several hours later. Dale Houston died on September 27, 2007 of heart failure at the Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the age of 67. At his funeral Troy Shondell Cemetery in Collins, Mississippi.shapemedia.uk 59 | 6 36 3
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