Titres
A1. Our Day Will Come 3:45
A2. How Glad I Am 2:41
A3. Oh No, Not My Baby 2:39
A4. Rescue Me 2:50
A5. Gee Whiz 2:28)
A6. I’m A Woman 2:29
B1. Since I Fell For You 3:24
B2. Impossible 2:49
B3. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ 3:24
B4. Soul Of The Man 3:30
B5. Come And Get These Memories 2:18
B6. I Know 3 :08
Crédits
Louis Satterfield : basse
Pete Cosey : guitare
Bryce Roberson : guitare
Maurice White : batterie
Reynard Miner : piano
Leonard Casten : piano
Sonny Thompson : orgue
Arrangements cuivres : Gene Barge
Arrangements : Billy Davis & Phil Wright
Présentation
enNotes au verso de la pochette
Fontella Bass is a new name on the music scene. She recently made her first hit record, "Rescue Me", which skyrocketed to number three on the national record charts.
Fontella has a very musical past. At the age of five, Fontella launched her musical career by playing piano and singing in a church choir in St. Louis, Missouri. She went on to become director of the choir and an accomplished organist as well as pianist. Fontella’s mother sang with the famous Clara Ward Singers, and has been coaching Fontella for twenty of her twenty-four years.
In June of 1964, Oliver Sain brought Fontella to Chess Record’s office in Chicago, where she was auditioned by Billy Davis, Chess Record’s A&R chief. Billy Davis, realizing the potential talent Fontella possessed, teamed her with a young male singer named Bobby McClure and arranged to record them as a duet. Their tune, "Don’t Mess Up A Good Thing", turned out to be a big hit.
One Saturday, in August, 1965, Fontella Bass was sitting in the Chess rehearsal studio along with two of Chess’s top writer-producers Carl Smith and Reynard Miner. They were ‘fooling around’ with some new material when Phil Wright, one of the Chess arrangers, happened to drop in, and the result of this four-way jam session was the birth and finalization of Fontella’s top hit, "Rescue Me".
When an artist has a hit single record, it is common practice in the record business to rush an album containing the hit tune into production. After the great success of "Rescue Me", it was decided that Fontella Bass should record an album. We took some of the great songs of the last few years and added Fontella’s fantastic style along with the Chess Sound…"
Album très agréable à l’écoute, avec des pointes sur des titres comme "Oh No, Not My Baby" (titre A3), le hit "Rescue Me" (titre A4) dont la version d’Aretha Franklin semble être la plus connue, et le superbe "I’m A Woman" (titre A6).
De la face B, je retiens :
"Since I Fell For You" (titre B1) : un Blues d’une douceur savoureuse à l’oreille et délicate pour les sens.
"Impossible" (titre B2) : je trouve à ce titre quelque chose de romanesque, très agréable.
"Soul Of The Man" (titre B4) : rondeur sonore, voix, piano, douceur et une Soul qui vous enlace sur ce tempo léger Blues. La voix de Fontella Bass prend une belle amplitude, claire, nette, juste, toujours dans une certaine retenue, maîtrise.
FACE A
Fontella Bass - “Oh No, Not My Baby” (titre A3)
Fontella Bass - “Rescue Me” (titre A4)
[LIVE]
Fontella Bass - “I'm A Woman” (titre A6)
FACE B
Fontella Bass - “Since I Fell For You” (titre B1)
Fontella Bass - “Impossible” (titre B2)
Fontella Bass - “Soul Of The Man” (titre B4)
Fontella Bass (03 juillet 1940 - 26 décembre 2012)
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Fontella Bass sur Funk-O-Logy-->Fontella Bass - The ‘New’ Look (Chess CH 91517, 1965)
-->Fontella Bass – Free (Paula Records LPS 2213, 1972)
