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Jimmy Mack (luke)
2-Debutant
Username: luke
Post Number: 19
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 152.163.252.166
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 10:21 pm: �� |     ���  |
Do people remember The Love Of My Man?What a powerful voice/arrangement. Did I maybe read she is deceased? Did she do much other recording? |
Soul Sister (soul_sister)
3-Pundit
Username: soul_sister
Post Number: 54
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.73.160.101
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 10:28 pm: �� | ��� |
Theola has a powerful voice, love that tune. She does have another killer record but just can't recall the titled perhaps Chancellor of Soul remembers(?).
S.S. |
Mark Speck (mark_speck)
2-Debutant
Username: mark_speck
Post Number: 14
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 205.185.142.152
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 10:45 pm: �� | ��� |
I just picked up the UK Kent CD, "The Arock/Sylvia Soul Story", and one track of Theola's is featured on it: "As Long As You Need Me (Want Me, Love Me)".
That was the second of two singles cut for Serock, the first being "The Love Of My Man"/"I Know That He Loves Me" (#2004). The aforementioned song is on Serock 2006, with "This is My Prayer" on the flip.
According to the informative CD booklet, she first recorded gospel, recording "Look to the Hills" with Bishop Louis H. Narcisse and the Mt. Zion Spiritual Choir for the Ajax label in 1955.
She eventually hooked up with Ed Townsend, who oversaw pretty much all of her secular output, and recorded her first solo single in 1960, "The Sound of My Man" (an answer to Sam Cooke's smash "Chain Gang").
Theola and Townsend formed the KT label after she left Serock, and she recorded for that label and also for Mercury ("It's Gonna Be Alright"). Her final sessions, recorded with Jimmy Holliday producing for Stax, were done in the '70s but are unreleased.
BTW, "The Love of My Man" appears on UK Kent CD "The Sweet Sound of Success" and "This is My Prayer" is featured on another Kent disc, "The Birth of Soul, Volume 2".
Best,
Mark |
Brother Love (brother_love)
1-Arriviste
Username: brother_love
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.120.59.149
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 2:49 am: �� | ��� |
What a great voice! |
Soul Sister (soul_sister)
3-Pundit
Username: soul_sister
Post Number: 55
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.73.160.101
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 2:26 pm: �� | ��� |
Hey Mark;
Thanks for that. "This Is My Prayer" is the other one I was trying to think of. I think Felix also plays "As Long As You Need Me". Theola has an amazing voice! If I'm listening to Felix's Rhythm Revue and I hear her voice come on...whatever I'm doing I stop dead in my tracks!
Hello, Brother Love, see you in LA next month.
S.S. |
Kevin Goins - KevGo (kevgo)
2-Debutant
Username: kevgo
Post Number: 24
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 64.115.136.66
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 2:39 pm: �� | ��� |
"The Love Of My Man" was based on the Soul Stirrers' "The Love Of God". Their original version featured the late Johnnie Taylor on lead vocals.
Kevin Goins - KevGo |
Jimmy Mack (luke)
2-Debutant
Username: luke
Post Number: 25
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.198.48.201
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 11:09 pm: �� | ��� |
Billboard states that Love Of My Man got to #21 pop which surprised me that it got that high. Did Theola die?s |
Rodmann (rodmann)
2-Debutant
Username: rodmann
Post Number: 12
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 12.221.46.129
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 6:56 am: �� | ��� |
Theola Kilgore's 'The Love Of My Man' is only one of three versions of this song that I've heard and my least favorite of them.
Top session vocalist and former Ikette Venetta Fields did the best version of this song IMO on a mid 60's Ike & Tina Turner Revue live LP. The band could be a little more inspired but Venetta sings with an intensity that I didn't hear on Theola's record. Venetta sang the hell out of this song! Has anyone else heard this?
Another former Ikette Bonnie Bramlett also recorded an excellent version of this song on Delaney & Bonnie's 1970 LP "To Bonnie From Delaney". Bonnie is no match for Venetta Fields on this particular track but she sounds a lot more inspired than Theola did IMO. |
Brother Love (brother_love)
1-Arriviste
Username: brother_love
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 67.113.218.154
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:35 pm: �� | ��� |
Hey Soul Sister,
I can't wait to meet you and give you a big hug. I leave tomorrow to go on the road with Etta James, I hope that we are back. I told her that Jimmy was playing the Bones & Blues and she said she that she will try to check him out if she can.
We just shot her new Cd cover there at the center. What is the date for the show? Please give my very best to the man. |
Soul Sister (soul_sister)
3-Pundit
Username: soul_sister
Post Number: 64
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.73.160.101
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 6:58 pm: �� | ��� |
Brother Love;
Awesome, can't wait to see both YOU & Etta, I'll tell Jimmy, it will be fun!!
The date is May 7 th. We'll be in LA on May 5th. cause we need to be at the studio on May 6th. for additional taping with Mathew, Eli, Jimmy & Myself for the "If You Only Knew" docu for its release on DVD.
See you soon, David Ritz is here for the Tommy LiPuma Tribute in conjunction with Tri-C Jazz Festival we're doing tomorrow at the Allen Theater. We leave for NYC early next morning for the Rain Forest Benefit. I'm already tired, with lots yet to do!LOL! Dang, I must be getting old!LOL!!!
Take it easy BLR!
S.S.
PS- Tell Etta that I have a photo for her of "She & Little Willie John" from the 1950's, I'll bring it! |
Brother Love (brother_love)
1-Arriviste
Username: brother_love
Post Number: 5
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.120.59.237
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 9:05 pm: �� | ��� |
Good thing I'll see you real soon, please say hi to David for me. |