604988328127

The Essential Varetta Dillard - Easy, Easy Baby

Varetta Dillard

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: JASMCD3281

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Release Date:  02 February 2024

Label:  Jasmine Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  604988328127

Genres:  Blues  Rhythm and Blues  

  • Description

    Rated by many pundits as the equal of singers like Dinah Washington, LaVern Baker, and Ruth Brown, Varetta Dillard was blessed with a powerful, versatile voice, and her recorded legacy remains seriously impressive. But the downside was that she was physically handicapped, which seriously compromised her career, most notably with regard to live performances.

    And although Varetta registered a trio of Top 10 R&B hits during the early 50s, she failed to achieve significant Pop success, and has largely remained a cult figure, little known outside of collectors' circles.

    Her recording career spanned eleven years, between 1951-62, during which she released thirty singles, across five different record labels, and also sang on a couple of other rarities.

    This 2-CD set comprises at least one side of each of those releases (in many cases, both sides) plus a dozen or so tracks which were not released the first time around.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Please Come Back To Me
      • 2. Hurry Up
      • 3. Easy, Easy Baby
      • 4. A Letter In Blues
      • 5. Here In My Heart
      • 6. Them There Eyes
      • 7. Double Crossing Daddy (With H-Bomb Ferguson)
      • 8. Tortured Love (H-Bomb Ferguson, Featuring Varetta Dillard)
      • 9. I Cried And Cried
      • 10. Double Crossing Daddy
      • 11. Three Lies
      • 12. Mercy Mr Percy
      • 13. I Love You
      • 14. I Ain't Gonna Tell
      • 15. Send Me Some Money
      • 16. Love
      • 17. Johnny Has Gone
      • 18. You're The Answer To My Prayer (With The Roamers)
      • 19. Promise Mr Thomas
      • 20. I'll Never Forget You
      • 21. I Can't Stop Now
      • 22. Mama Don't Want (What Poppa Don't Want)
      • 23. Darling, Listen To The Words Of This Song (With The 4 Students)
      • 24. Cherry Blossom (With The 4 Students)
      • 25. I'm Gonna Tell My Daddy (With The 4 Students)
      • 26. That Old Feeling (With The 4 Students)
      • 27. See See Rider Blues
      • 28. Got You On My Mind
      • 29. I Miss You Jimmy

      Disc 2

      • 1. If You Want To Be My Baby
      • 2. One More Time (With The Nitecaps)
      • 3. Pray For Me Mother
      • 4. Leave A Happy Fool Alone
      • 5. Give Me The Right
      • 6. Time Was
      • 7. I Got A Lot Of Love
      • 8. Undecided
      • 9. That's Why I Cry
      • 10. Star Of Fortune (With The Cookies)
      • 11. The Rules Of Love (With The Cookies)
      • 12. Falling (With The Cookies)
      • 13. Old Fashioned (With The Cookies)
      • 14. What'll I Do
      • 15. Just Multiply
      • 16. Honey
      • 17. The Square Dance Rock
      • 18. Good Gravy Baby
      • 19. Scorched
      • 20. (Twee-Twee-Twee) The Lovin' Bird
      • 21. Good To Me
      • 22. Teaser
      • 23. You Don't Know What You're Missing
      • 24. A Little Bitty Tear
      • 25. Mercy Mr Percy (Re-Recording)
      • 26. What Can I Say
      • 27. You Better Come Home
      • 28. I Don't Know What It Is But I Like It
      • 29. Whole Lot Of Lip
      • 30. You Ain't Foolin' Nobody
      • 31. Say What? (The Cyclones Featuring Eddie Jones)
      • 32. Breaking Hearts (Varetta & The Thomases)
      • 33. Fly By Night (Varetta & The Thomases)