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Savannah Churchill: Time Out For Tears / Erma Franklin: Her Name Is Erma
Two more effective but largely overlooked singers, one Aretha Franklin's sister, are remembered in Fresh Sound's forgotten voices series
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Lodi Carr: Ladybird / Norma Mendoza: All About Norma
Fresh Sound's "The Best Voices That Time Forgot" series is a fine example of hype-free billing, the kind of billing disregarded by the often...
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Fran Jeffries: Fran Can Really Hang You Up The Most / Annita Ray: Slow Glow
Fran Jeffries is indeed a forgotten figure today - apart, that is, from a memorable scene in the 1963 Pink Panther film that introduced...
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Ruth Price: My Name Is Ruth Price… I Sing! / The Party’s Over
Although very young and relatively inexperienced in the early and mid-1950s, Ruth Price made an instant impression on those who heard her in those...
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Jean Hoffman: Sings And Swings / Dorothy Carless: The Carless Torch
Increasingly the albums that slip over my transom are sprinkled liberally with variants of the new buzz word that has infected all the arts,...
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Sheila Guyse: This Is Sheila / Joya Sherrill: Sugar & Spice
Of these two is Fresh Sound's The Best Voices Time Forgot series one (Guyse) has a background which has largely been hidden from history,...
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Cora Lee Day: My Crying Hour / Debby Moore: My Kind Of Blues
Both of these albums are rare finds by the intrepid Jordi Pujol of Fresh Sound for his Best Voices Time Forgot series and are...
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Lynn Taylor: I See Your Face Before Me / Marjorie Lee: Remembering With …
A singer whose repertoire and style was mostly suited to the pop music of the day, Lynn Taylor (1937-1979) worked for a while in...
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Shelley Moore: For The First Time …/Ann Williams: First Time Out
Both singers presented here are on the boundary between jazz and pop. The one perhaps closest to jazz will have older UK fans digging...
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Carole Simpson: Singin’ And Swingin’ / Connie Haines: A Tribute To Helen Morgan
Carole Simpson, who died in 2012, had an intimate quality with a lyric that recalls Jeri Southern, Chris Connor and...
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Renée Raff: Among The Stars / Pat Dahl: We Dig Pat Dahl
This is another in Jordi Pujol’s intriguing series The Best Voices That Time Forgot, devoted to forgotten singers.
South Africa born Renée Raff benefits from...
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Cathi Hayes: It’s All Right With Me / Lu Ann Sims: At Separate Tables
Continuing Fresh Sounds’ The Best Voices Time Forgot series, this double set unearths another two singers whose names are likely to be little known,...
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