The Enchanters - You Were Meant to Be My Baby
We've already filled you in on Ace's recent collection from the great Jackie Wilson; today, we turn the spotlight to another classic R&B vocalist, Garnet Mimms!
West Virginia-built-in, Philadelphia-raised Garnet Mimms is best remembered today for his 1963 hit "Cry Baby," which reached No. 1 R&B/No. 4 Pop and inspired Janis Joplin's scorching revival years later. "Cry Baby" was the piece of work of songwriters Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, both of whom played central roles in the vocalizer's career. In fact, Ragovoy produced every ane of the 28 deep-soul tracks on Ace'due south The Consummate United Artists and Veep Singles , co-producing 4 with Berns (including "Weep Infant") while Berns wrote or co-wrote another 5 songs here.
Though Mimms' gospel-inflected pipes, inspired by Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke, would take earned him success in any R&B genre, he thrived in the classy, New York-recorded uptown soul sessions helmed past Ragovoy and Berns, oft with arranger-conductor Garry Sherman. Mimms' passionate vocals gave but the right edge to the lushly intricate, Latin-tinged productions favored by Ragovoy and Berns. Mimms recorded xiv singles and 3 albums combined at UA and its subsidiary Veep between 1963 and 1967; this prepare presents every one of those 45 RPM sides in their original (mostly stereo) mixes, with many actualization for the outset time on CD.
Though "Cry Babe" and a handful of Mimms' subsequent recordings were credited to Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters (a.k.a. Sam Bong, Charles Boyer and Zola Pearnell), most of the early sides here feature the unmistakable audio of the Sweetness Inspirations on backing vocals. After a couple of singles with Garnet, Ragovoy would have The Enchanters over to Warner Bros.' Loma imprint and continue to produce the grouping there.
Mimms' graceful yet gritty sound was in identify from his arrival at UA, and this drove underscores his identify as a muse and interpreter of Ragovoy's songbook. Ragovoy'due south solo composition "Baby Don't Y'all Weep" plays heavily off the "Cry Baby" sound, equally does the torrid Berns/Ragovoy co-write "I Girl." But Ragovoy took Mimms downward other avenues, also, with the singer gliding over the slinky Latin rhythm of "A Quiet Place," the mid-tempo chug of "Wait Away" (recycled by co-writers Berns and Ragovoy for Ben East. Rex's "Weep No More" the next yr) or the rock-and-curlicue-guitar twang of "So Shut." "It Was Easier to Hurt Her" has elements of Burt Bacharach and Phil Spector, but mostly this all-as well-unheralded soul classic is pure Berns and Ragovoy. "Prove it to Me" is all flippant, uptempo swagger.
Looking for Y'all as well features Mimms' inspired interpretations of Jerry Butler's "For Your Precious Beloved" and Bert Berns' hit for The Jarmels, "A Little Chip of Soap." Other famous Brill Edifice-era names popular up here, too, including Pete Anders and Vini Poncia ("One Woman Human being"), Doc Pomus (the aforementioned "1 Adult female Human," "More Than a Miracle"), Pomus' usual partner Mort Shuman ("It'south Been Such a Long Way Abode," "My Babe," "All About Love") and Chip Taylor ("Welcome Dwelling," "Thinkin'). Taylor and Ragovoy's "Thinkin'" is but one particularly immaculate production. Ragovoy and Shuman's dramatic "My Baby," similar the similarly-titled "Cry Baby," was also recorded past Janis Joplin and posthumously released on 1971'south Pearl.
Looking for Y'all includes a detailed 16-page booklet with liner notes by compilation producer Tony Rounce. His notes bring the Garnet Mimms story up to date. Garnet is alive and well although, following his built-in-again conversion in the late seventies, he only sings gospel today. Duncan Cowell has newly remastered this collection.
Garnet Mimms' Looking for You: The Complete United Artists and Veep Singles is available now from Ace Records at the links below!
Garnet Mimms, Looking for You: The Complete United Artists and Veep Singles (Ace CDTOP 423, 2015) (Amazon U.Southward. / Amazon U.K.)
- Weep Baby (UA 629, 1963)
- Don't Modify Your Heart (UA 629, 1963)
- Baby Don't Y'all Weep (UA 658, 1963)
- For Your Precious Love (UA 658, 1963)
- Tell Me Baby (UA 694, 1964)
- Someday You Want Me (UA 694, 1964)
- A Quiet Place (UA 715, 1964)
- One Girl (UA 715, 1964)
- Look Abroad (UA 773, 1964)
- I Adult female Homo (UA 773, 1964)
- A Petty Bit of Soap (UA 796, 1964)
- I'll Make It Upwards to You (UA 796, 1964)
- Information technology Was Easier to Hurt Her (UA 848, 1965)
- Then Shut (UA 848, 1965)
- Welcome Home (scheduled for UA 868, 1965)
- Everytime (scheduled for UA 868/released on UA 887, 1965)
- That Goes to Show You (UA 887, 1965)
- Looking for Y'all (UA 951, 1965)
- More than a Miracle (UA 951, 1965)
- I'll Take Good Intendance of Yous (UA 995, 1966)
- Prove Information technology to Me (UA 995, 1966)
- It's Been Such a Long Fashion Home (Veep 1232, 1966)
- Thinkin' (Veep 1232, 1966)
- My Infant (Veep 1234, 1966)
- Continue On Smilin' (Veep 1234, 1966)
- All About Love (Veep 1252, 1966)
- The Truth Hurts (Veep 1252, 1966)
- Every bit Long Every bit I Have You (UA LP UAS 6396, 1964)
All tracks stereo except Tracks 22 & 26 are mono.
Joe Marchese
JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The 2d Disc shortly afterwards its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records characterization. Jubilant the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced past Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past ii decades, Joe has likewise worked in a diversity of capacities on and off Broadway equally well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.South., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such equally the belatedly Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the impress publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and tv set on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York Metropolis.
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