WYNONA CARR-Great Blues & Soul 45-SPECIALTY Label #575
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Mint Old Radio Station Stock! What a great blues 45 from the late, great WYNONA CARR. Recorded on the desirable SPECIALTY record label... the record # is: SP-575-45. The songs are: "Nursery Rhyme Rock" b/w "Please Mr. Jailer". This record is in Near Mint to Mint condition... (play graded). A wonderful play! The labels are in perfect condition with no writing, stickers or unusual wear.The etched matrix numbers are: 45SP-575. have made a major purchase of ultra rare soul, rock, jazz & blues records! They were from Chicago Radio Station Promotion Manager Lester "Len" Miller and are from his personal collection. ***I COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE 45 PURCHASES IN THE USA***
Carr's contralto vocals have a sensual, husky quality quite unusual (or even inappropriate) for gospel singers in her day, which made her eventual switch to R&B and rock & roll seem a logical choice in retrospect. The same goes for her idiosyncratic use of metaphors and themes in her gospel songs: Baseball ("The Ball Game"), boxing ("15 Rounds For Jesus") and a popular TV show ("Dragnet For Jesus"). This penchant for novelty-like songs also shows in Carr's later R&B repertoire, for instance "Ding Dong Daddy", "Nursery Rhyme Rock" and "Boppity Bop (Boogity Boog)". Carr's gospel recordings are very much influenced by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, incorporating blues and jazz stylings and already touching on R&B with her take on Roy Brown's / Wynonie Harris' "Good Rockin' Tonight", entitled "I Heard The News (Jesus Is Coming Again)". Her early R&B material (for which she is probably best remembered now) was often uptempo, rock & roll-styled and similar in sound to fellow R&B / rock & roll artists on the Specialty roster like Little Richard, Lloyd Price and Larry Williams, with a strong New Orleans-style backbeat and a rich, warm production. Her final Specialty sessions, conducted by Sonny Bono in 1959, cut down on the rock & roll influences. Both Carr's gospel and R&B recordings went largely unappreciated during the time they were released, but found a new audience when Ace Records released two CDs in their Specialty re-issue series, covering Carr's entire output on the label and adding previously unreleased material, such as a recording with Rev. C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha Franklin) and his New Bethel Baptist Church Choir in Detroit.
***I WILL CONSIDER A BUY IT NOW ON THIS WONDERFUL RECORD***
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