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Brunswick Lost Soul, Vol. 1

Various Artists
1 disc

1. Do the Whoopie - Sugar Pie DeSanto
2. Your Love Controls My World - Johnny Williams
3. Come Over to My Side - Billy Butler
4. Stay with Me Baby - B.W. & The Next Edition
5. Hold On - Marvin Smith
6. Tell Me - The Airedales/Rocky Roberts
7. Lonely Street - The Admirations
8. You Brought Out the Good in Me - Otis Leavill
9. Wrong Number - Lee Charles
10. You Left Me - The Artistics
11. Do the Tighten Up - Major Lance
12. Chip Off the Old Block - The King Casuals/Johnny Jones
13. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes - Little Richard
14. Getting Nowhere Fast - Floyd Smith
15. Where the Lilies Grow - Sidney Joe Qualls
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): BRC 33020
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Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Illustrator: Joshua Marc Levy.
In the history of American popular music, the name "Brunswick" has meant different things at different times, so it is worth pointing out that the music on this compilation is drawn from the R&B-oriented Brunswick (and its Dakar subsidiary) label run by Carl Davis in Chicago in the 1960s and `70s, not from the catalog of the Brunswick Records originally founded during World War I by the Brunswick-Balke-Collendar company, an Iowa piano manufacturer, and phased out at the end of the `30s, when it was owned by Columbia Records. Brunswick was revived as a subsidiary by Decca in the `40s, but by the time Davis was its A&R supervisor, it was in the process of being purchased by Nat Tarnopol. Throughout this latter period, its flagship artist was Jackie Wilson (whom Tarnopol managed), but, as this collection demonstrates, it also boasted such major artists as Major Lance and Little Richard. Mostly dating from the late `60s, these non-hit tracks show a group of artists closely shadowing the successful R&B styles of the period. For example, Billy Butler (brother of Jerry Butler) turns out a heavily Motown-influenced track on "Come Over to My Side," which sounds like it might have escaped from a Four Tops session. Tommy Green, lead singer of the Artistics, makes their song "You Left Me" sound a lot like Marvin Gaye. On the other hand, Johnny Jones & the King Casuals take a more gutbucket soul approach on "Chip Off the Old Block," sounding more Stax than Motown. Seemingly, it would have been easy for several of these records to have been R&B hits in place of similar ones that actually were, which, decades later, gives the album an oddly familiar sound; a listener keeps thinking the music has been heard before, only to realize it has not. ~ William Ruhlmann