Format Details: Jewel Case
Format Details: Single Sleeve Vinyl Album
Release Date: 28 August 2006
Label: Southbound
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667018029
Release Date: 28 April 2023
Label: Southbound
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667016117
Description
We're now at the half way mark in our short series of sonically upgraded and content-expanded reissues of original Millie Jackson Spring albums. The recently released makeovers of "Caught Up"� and "Still Caught Up"� have been as well received as we had hoped they would be, both by long time Millie fans and new recruits to the MJ cause alike. Next month will see these two joined by Millie's first really big album, 1973's "IT HURTS SO GOOD"�. Before that, we're delighted to bring you a sublimely revamped version of her Spring debut, first released in the late Summer of 1972 and sounding as good as ever in this new expanded edition. By 1974, Millie was able to call all her own career shots at Spring, including picking her own repertoire and co-producing her own sessions. But at her early sessions she was, as she told me recently, "doing whatever I was told "� by, mostly, Spring's in-house songwriter-producer Raeford "Ray Godfrey"� Gerald, who selected - and indeed wrote or co-wrote - a good number of the sides that Millie cut on her first three Spring albums. The fact that Millie had co-written A Child Of God, though, gave her an input that many new artists wouldn't have got on their debut releases, and her lively personality shines through on every one of the album's 10 tracks - even those she didn't like. As with many other soul albums of the time, there was no actual 'concept' about "Millie Jackson"�. Spring brought together the As and Bs of Millie's singles to date, augmented them with the two tracks that would become a fourth single from the album and added a couple of 'extras' that might or might not be used as flips to future 45s. Such was the quality of this repertoire, however, that Millie's debut album sounded no less disjointed than the run of concept albums that were still a few years in her future. In less than two years, those four singles and the attendant album took our heroine from being a shipping clerk-cum-catalogue model, with one failed single and a part time singing career, to being one of the leading names in contemporary soul music. "Millie Jackson"� has been remastered from the original first generation tape that was used to cut the stampers from which the original vinyl album was made. A generous nine bonus tracks have been added to give the expanded CD a running time which doubles that of the original album. Four of these will be of particular interest to MJ completists, being the four tracks that she cut for Suron Productions in 1969. These were originally leased to MGM Records before Spring acquired them in the early 1970s. Two, A Little Bit Of Something and My Heart Took A Licking formed Millie's debut 45 release, but the other two have remained unheard for 37 years. Actually, only Licking has ever been reissued previously, so this CD marks the first time that all four have appeared together in one compilation. The other previously unissued material showcases alternate (sometimes VERY alternate!) versions of m
Description
Millie Jackson's first single was released on the MGM label in 1969 but her career took off when she signed to Spring where she teamed up with producer Raeford Gerald. The single 'A Child Of God (It's Hard To Believe)'/'You're The Joy Of My Life' was a Top 30 R&B hit and 'Ask Me What You Want'/'I Just Can't Stand It', 'My Man, A Sweet Man'/'I Gotta Get Away From My Own Self' and 'I Miss You Baby'/'I Ain't Giving Up' not only did more damage on the R&B chart but also entered the Hot 100. All four singles appeared on her debut LP "Millie Jackson"� issued on Spring in 1972. Despite later international success "Millie Jackson"� has, amazingly, not been reissued since 1989 and so, over 30 years later, Ace have put it back on wax where it belongs.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Various Artists
Various Artists
Two Tons O' Fun
The Players Association
The Mike Theodore Orchestra
The Fatback Band
The Fatback Band
The Fatback Band
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson
