Annisteen Allen - Fujiyama Mama
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Artist: Annisteen AllenEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-12-25
Music Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand
Soundtracks:
- Hard To Get Along
- Cloudy Day Blues
- Lies, Lies, Lies
- Too Long
- Mr Trumpet Man
- I'm Waiting Just For You - #2 1951
- Bongo Boogie
- Bittersweet
- Bluest Blues
- Trying To Live Without You
- My Baby Keeps Rollin'
- Yes, I Know
- Baby, I'm Doin' It - # 8 1953
- Wanted
- I Don't Want No Substitute
- Down By The River
- My Brand Of Loving
- No More Lovin'
- Take A Chance On Me
- I've Got Troubles
- Nothing Can Replace You
- Fujiyama Mama
- Wheels Of Love
- Everybody Knows I Love You
- G'wan About Your Business
- Slow But Sure
- I'm Still In Love With You
- Mine All Mine
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Music Review: An Under-Appreciated R&B Vocalist
Rating: 5 Stars
Annisteen Allen, born Ernestine Letitia Allen on November 11, 1920 in Champagne, Illinois but raised in Toledo, Ohio, began her career as a band vocalist in 1939 with the Don Albert orchestra, a group best known throughout the southwestern U.S. In 1946, thanks to Louis Jordan, she hooked up with the great Lucky Millinder where, for the next five years, she would share vocal assignments for the band along with Lucky, Trevor Bacon, Wynonie Harris, Big John Greer, Melvin Moore and John Carol.
Her recording career, which stretched into the early 1960s, saw her perform for something like a dozen different labels and, although actual hit singles were few and far between, that result is puzzling. As reviewer Bop Cat points out, when all is said and done she was as good as any of her contemporaries. Her first appearances on record were the risque How Big Can You Get It, Little Man? b/w There's Good Blues Tonight as the featured vocalist with Lucky's band on Decca 23825, and Oo-Oo-Ee-Bob-A-Lee-Bob with Bull Moose Jackson & His Band on King 4107, both in 1946. Neither became a hit and, unfortunately, neither is in this set.
Nor are any of the other 1946 and 1947 releases, including four for King Records billed as Annisteen Allen & Her Home Town Boys - I've Got Big Bulgin' Eyes (For You) b/w I Want A Man Who's Gonna Do Right (King 4115), The Blues Done Got Me b/w More More More (King 4119), Give It Up b/w She Lost Her Re-Bop (King 4124), Arkansas b/w I Know How To Do It (King 4128)< and another with Lucky's band, Don't Hesitate Too Long (Decca 24384). Several, however, can be found in her volume in the Classic series, still available in used format.
This Rev-Ola Bandstand release instead focuses on her work from 1951 up, although the tracks are not organized in any sort of chronological order. In fact, the earliest here from 1951, Mr. Trumpet Man, doesn't appear until track 5. coming out that year by Lucky Millinder & His Orch featuring Annisteen Allen on King 4436 (the flip, The Jumping Jack paired her with Big John Greer but it's omitted here). Meanwhile, also in 1951, she had two solo releases on King's subsidiary Federal with Cloudy Day Blues b/w Lies, Lies, Lies (Federal 12012) and Hard To Get Along b/w Too Long (Federal 120120) - tracks 2,3, 1 & 4 respectively.
This volume skips over a few other 1949/50/51 sides - In The Middle Of The Night (RCA Victor 20-3526), Let It Be (RCA Victor 20-0088) and No One Else Could (Vogue 0 9021) - all with Lucky's band - before presenting I'm Waiting Just For You, a duet with John Carol that reached # 2 R&B and # 19 Pop in July/August 1951 b/w Bongo Boogie, a solo vocal by Annisteen on King 45-4453 (tracks 6 & 7). Six years later, Pat Boone would cover the hit for Dot and take it to # 27 Pop. Her other hit with the band was a cover duet with Big John Greer of 1950's I'll Never Be Free (a hit then for Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie), which topped out at # 8 R&B in January 1951 b/w Journey's End on RCA Victor 47-3128. Neither side is here, but you can get the hit in the excellent Lucky Millinder volume of Acrobat's great Jukebox Hits series.
Then we jump to 1953 and her only solo hit, Baby I'm Doin' It which, as an "answer" song to the # 1 R&B smash Baby Don't Do It by The "5" Royales, and featuring Big John Greer on sax, topped out at # 8 R&B that March b/w Yes I Know on King 4608 (tracks 13 and 12 respectively). From then on there would be no national chart success despite these excellent cuts, all featured in this release: Trying To Live Without You/My Baby Keeps Rollin' (King 4622), Wanted/My Brand Of Loving (King 4642) - both 1953 - Down By The River/I Don't Want No Substitute (King 4691) - 1954, and these releases by the giant Capitol Records: Take A Chance On Me/No More Lovin' (Capitol 2937) in 1954, I've Got Troubles/Nothing Can Replace You (Capitol 3000), the great Fujiyama Mama/Wheel Of Love (Capitol 3048), and I'm Still In Love With You/Mine All Mine (Capitol 3061) - all in 1955.
She would continue to record for Decca, Todd, Wig, Warwick and in 1961, Tru-Sound (under her real first name Ernestine) without chart success. She passed away at age 71 on August 10, 1992.
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