Lou Rawls - Anthology
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Artist: Lou RawlsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Music Label: The Right Stuff
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- What Makes the Ending So Sad
- Blues Is a Woman
- Willow Weep for Me
- Black and Blue
- Kansas City
- Tobacco Road
- Stormy Monday [Live]
- St. James Infirmary
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- Shadow of Your Smile
- Street Corner Hustler's Blues [Monologue]
- World of Trouble
- Memory Lane
- Old Man's Memories
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Whole Lotta Woman
- Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
- You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches
- Trouble Down Here Below
- Dead End Street
- Dead End Street
- Show Business
- Show Business
- Scotch & Soda
- My Ancestors
- Hang Ups
- You're Good for Me
- Soul Serenade
- Down Here on the Ground
- Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
- I Can't Make It Alone
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- Bring It Home
Music reviews of Anthology
Music Review: Fairly Comprehensive Anthology ...
Rating: 4 Stars
... as far as his Capitol years are concerned. And that's the key when it comes to some of the criticism elsewhere about it not being "complete." It's also worth noting that, despite the indication in the Product Details above that it comes from a label called "The Right Stuff." the copy in front of me, exact in every other detail, says "2000 Capitol Records, Inc."
It has excellent sound reproduction on the 33 tracks and in the insert are 8 full pages chronicling Lou's years with Capitol written by David Nathan, author of The Soulfull Divas and a contributing writer to Billboard. Another nice shot of Lou then precedes a re-listing of the tracks showing, where applicable, the albums in which each originally appeared (note that tracks 1 on Disc 1 and 8 on Disc 2 were previously unissued), but there are no details regarding his 12 Capitol hit singles, alhough all but two are included.
Where it loses 1 star in my book is the exclusion of his first hit single which came in June 1965 on Capitol 5424. His cover of the old Paul Whiteman 1922 hit, Three O'Clock In The Morning, was not a huge hit by any means, reaching just # 83 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 and # 27 Adult Contemporary (AC) b/w Nothing Really Feels The Same, but it was a charter and it was his first, so leaving it out of an "anthology" is unforgiveable.
However, his initial R&B hit is here, The Shadow Of Your Smile on Capitol 5655 b/w Southside Blues, and culled from his 1966 LP Lou Rawls Live! And it was a minor # 33 on those charts in July and did not even crack the Hot 100. His big breakthrough came that fall when Love Is A Hurtin' Thing rose to # 1 R&B and # 13 Hot 100 b/w Memory Lane on Capitol 5709. That B-side is the only one included in this "anthology." He then closed out 1966 with the # 35 R&B/# 55 Hot 100 You Can Bring Me All Your Heartaches b/w A Woman Who's A Woman on Capitol 5790.
1967 started off slowly when Trouble Down Here Below could only manage an anaemic # 92 Hot 100 and was shut out of the R&B listings in February b/w The Life That I Lead on Capitol 5824, but it picked up in April when Dead End Street Monologue/Dead End Street peaked at # 3 R&B and # 29 Hot 100 on Capitol 5869 b/w Yes It Hurts - Doesn't It? Here they give you the monologue and song on two separate tracks on Disc 2. That summer, Show Business became a minor # 25 R&B/# 45 Hot 100 entry b/w When Love Goes Wrong on Capitol 5941.
Another missing from this "anthology" is his Christmas 1967 interpretation of The Little Drummer Boy, which made it to # 2 on the Billboard Christmas Charts b/w A Child With A Toy on Capitol 2026. He was then off any singles charts until September 1968 when Down Here On The Ground, from the film Cool Hand Luke, struggled to a # 69 Hot 100 b/w I'm Satisfied (The Duffy Theme) on Capitol 2252, and it would be another full year before he returned with Your Good Thing (Is About To End) which topped out at # 3 R&B, # 18 Hot 100 and # 35 AC late in the summer of 1969 b/w Season Of The Witch on Capitol 2550.
In November 1959, I Can't Make It Alone petered out at # 33 R&B and # 63 Hot 100 b/w a cover of the Eddy Arnold hit, Make The World Go Away, on Capitol 2668. In the early spring of 1970 his cover of the 1967 Brenda Holloway/1960 Blood, Sweat & Tears hit, You've Made Me So Very Happy, finished at # 31 AC, # 32 R&B and # 95 Hot 100 b/w Let's Burn Down The Cornfield on Capitol 2734. He then closed out his Capitol string of hit singles in August when his cover of the 1962 Sam Cooke smash, Bring It On Home (on which Lou had provided backing vocals), topped out at # 45 R&B/# 96 Hot 100 b/w Can You Dig It/Take Me For What I Am on Capitol 2856.
Lou would, of course, go on to post another 21 hit singles for several labels (MGM, Bell, Philadelphia Int'l, Epic, and Gamble & Hull to 1987, including what would turn out to be his best ever, in terms of chart success, with You'll Never Find ANother Love Like Mine, which hit # 1 R&B and AC and # 2 Hot 100 in summer 1976 for Phildelphia Int'l, his first there.
Not bad as label-limited anthologies go, but it could have been a 5-star Capitol release with the inclusion of those two missing hits and maybe another B0side or two.
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