{"product_id":"spread-your-love-the-complete-minit-singles-1966-1970","title":"Spread Your Love: The Complete Minit Singles 1966-1970","description":"Liner Note Author: Tony Rounce.\u003cbr\u003eJimmy Holiday had the skills to be a star -- he had a honeyed voice with just the right amount of grit, he could write insinuating songs, both slow and fast -- but it never happened for him. He had a hit right out of the gate with \"How Can I Forget,\" an indie hit on Everest in 1963, but once he signed with the New Orleans-based Minit in 1966, he managed no better than 21 on the R\u0026amp;B charts, even though he could sing several kinds of soul with style. Spread Your Love: The Complete Minit Singles 1966-1970 makes that plain by cycling through his As and Bs from the late '60s, offering a rich portrait of an unheralded talent. Usually, Holiday sidestepped the signature funky sounds identified with the Crescent City -- \"Give Me Your Love\" is an exception -- favoring a sweeter, smoother sound that sometimes recalls the cool breezes coming out of Chicago thanks to the Impressions. Holiday adeptly updated his sound with a bit of James Brown and Memphis groove -- the latter can be heard on \"Spread Your Love,\" the former on \"Baby Boy's in Love\" -- and also easily slid into country-soul on a slow-and-dirty version of Lefty Frizzell's \"If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time\" and felt at home grafting some of Motown's ornate arrangements onto the Otis-driven groove of \"I've Got to Live While I Can,\" plus he was a good duet partner with Clydie King. Holiday seemed comfortable with nearly every contemporary soul style of the '60s and he wrote strong songs, too; maybe nothing here is a classic along the lines of \"Put a Little Love in Your Heart,\" the hit he co-wrote with Jackie DeShannon, but every sturdy tune sticks around the brain. So, Spread Your Love: The Complete Minit Singles winds up as a requiem for a soul singer who never got his due and still deserves more credit than he gets: this is fine stuff. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48463084060959,"sku":"029667242721","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/ef0c02c5b4ad68ae1fb2bae63248928a.jpg?v=1777803667","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/spread-your-love-the-complete-minit-singles-1966-1970","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}