Best Of Roscoe Shelton - Roscoe Shelton CD

Although Nashville is best known for its gargantuan contribution to country music history, Music City also hosted a thriving rhythm and blues community during the postwar era. John Richbourg, a toprated deejay on Nashvilles 50,000watt RB station WLAC, was a prime mover and shaker on that scene, especially after he hooked up with Sound Stage 7 Records as a producer during the mid60s. In that role, Richbourg helmed seminal hits for many of the labels best soul singers, including Lynchburg, Tennessee native Roscoe Shelton. Shelton started out as a gospel vocalist, initially with the Fairfield Four and then the Skylarks, before making the secular switch in 1958 at the behest of Excello Records owner Ernie Young. Roscoe made seven singles for Excello stretching into 1961, but he didnt hit his stride until he signed with the locallybased Sims Records, where he crashed the national RB charts with "Strain On My Heart" in 1965. Moving over to Sound Stage 7 the following year, Shelton hit again with "Easy Going Fellow" and made more great platters for SS7 into 1968 before retiring from show business. This bountiful 28track compilation of Roscoes SS7 years offers the most indepth examination yet of a soul music pioneers most productive period, his mellifluous voice never failing to thrill. Nashville soul at its finestAdditional Info: Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.

Specifics

  • Album: Best Of Roscoe Shelton
  • Artist: Roscoe Shelton
  • Label: SUNSET BLVD RECORDS
  • Genre: Blues
  • MPN: 7 08535 79082 2
Tracklist

1. Strain On My Heart
2. My Best Friend
3. Worry
4. Love Is The Key
5. I'm Tryin' To Quit
6. Love Comes And Goes
7. Master Mind
8. Keep Your Mind On Me
9. Wedding Cake
10. The Fire Still Burns
11. My Eyes
12. I Know Your Heart Has Been Broken
13. Easy Going Fellow
14. Roll With The Punch
15. Who Walks In (When I Walk Out)
16. You're Living Too Fast
17. Soon As Darkness Falls
18. A Man's Love
19. I'm In Way Too Deep
20. Tonight's My Night
21. Running For My Life
22. There's A Heartbreak Somewhere
23. I Can't Stand To Be Without You
24. I Want To Keep You (If You Want To Stay)
25. You Ought To Take Time Out For Your Love
26. I'm Ready (To Love You Now)
27. You're The Dream
28. I'm Still The Man

SKU CD-708535790822
Barcode # 708535790822
Brand SUNSET BLVD RECORDS
Shipping Weight 0.0860kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.140m

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