Brunswick Lost Soul, Vol. 1

Overview

In the history of American popular music, the name "Brunswick" has meant different things at different times, so it is worth pointing out that the music on this compilation is drawn from the R&B-oriented Brunswick (and its Dakar subsidiary) label run by Carl Davis in Chicago in the 1960s and '70s, not from the catalog of the Brunswick Records originally founded during World War I by the Brunswick-Balke-Collendar company, an Iowa piano manufacturer, and phased out at the end of the '30s, when it was owned by Columbia Records. Brunswick was revived as a subsidiary by Decca in the '40s, but by the time Davis was its A&R supervisor, it was in the process of being purchased by Nat Tarnopol. Throughout this latter period, its flagship artist was Jackie Wilson (whom Tarnopol managed), but, as this collection demonstrates, it also boasted such major artists as Major Lance and Little Richard. Mostly dating from the late '60s, these non-hit tracks show a group of artists closely shadowing the successful R&B styles of the period. For example, Billy Butler (brother of Jerry Butler) turns out a heavily Motown-influenced track on "Come Over to My Side," which sounds like it might have escaped from a Four Tops session. Tommy Green, lead singer of the Artistics, makes their song "You Left Me" sound a lot like Marvin Gaye. On the other hand, Johnny Jones & the King Casuals take a more gutbucket soul approach on "Chip Off the Old Block," sounding more Stax than Motown. Seemingly, it would have been easy for several of these records to have been R&B hits in place of similar ones that actually were, which, decades later, gives the album an oddly familiar sound; a listener keeps thinking the music has been heard before, only to realize it has not. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	09/27/2011
Label:	Brunswick
UPC:	0646953302022
Rank:	119121

Tracks

1. Do the Whoopie  - Sugar Pie DeSanto  - Joe Simon
2. Your Love Controls My World  - Dennis Miller  - Wayne Readus  - Johnny Williams
3. Come Over to My Side  - Billy Butler  - William Butler  - Thomas Green  - Barbara Griffin
4. Stay with Me Baby  -  B.W. & The Next Edition  - Billy Nichols
5. Hold On  - Van McCoy  - Marvin Smith
6. Tell Me  -  Airedales  - Douglas Fowles  - Wesley Johnson  - Jesse King  - Rocky Roberts  -  Roberts
7. Lonely Street  -  Admirations  - Barry Barney  - Lonnie Heard
8. You Brought Out the Good in Me  - Jack Daniels  - Otis Leavill  - John Moore
9. Wrong Number  - Lee Charles  - Eugene Record  - Floyd Sims  - Gerald Sims
10. You Left Me  -  Artistics  - William Butler  - Gary Jackson  - Nathaniel Smith
11. Do the Tighten Up  - Wayne Jones  - Major Lance
12. Chip Off the Old Block  - William Bell  - Johnny Jones  -  Jones  -  King Casuals
13. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes  - James Alexander  -  Little Richard  - Richard Penniman
14. Getting Nowhere Fast  - Willie Henderson  - Lee Simmons  - Floyd Smith
15. Where the Lilies Grow  - Carl Davis  - Clifford Davis  - Raymond Haley  - Sidney Joe Qualls  - Canute Scott

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Floyd Smith   Primary Artist
Johnny Williams   Primary Artist
Rocky Roberts & The Airedales   Primary Artist
Rocky Roberts   Primary Artist
Sugar Pie DeSanto   Primary Artist
Major Lance   Primary Artist
B.W. & The Next Edition   Primary Artist
The Admirations   Primary Artist
The Artistics   Primary Artist
Johnny Jones & the King Casuals   Primary Artist
Little Richard   Primary Artist
Otis Leavill   Primary Artist
Billy Butler   Primary Artist
Lee Charles   Primary Artist
Marvin Smith   Primary Artist
Sidney Joe Qualls   Primary Artist
The Airedales   Primary Artist
The King Casuals   Primary Artist
Johnny Jones   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Wesley Johnson   Composer
Paul Tarnopol   Executive Producer
Bill Dahl   Liner Notes
Billy Nichols   Composer
James Alexander   Composer
William Butler   Composer
Eugene Record   Composer
Jesse King   Composer
Barry Barney   Composer
Canute Scott   Composer
Charles White   Source Material
Dennis Miller   Composer
Douglas Fowles   Composer
Floyd Sims   Composer
John Moore   Composer
Raymond Haley   Composer
Wayne Readus   Composer
Bob McGrath   Source Material
Wayne Jones   Composer
Lonnie Heard   Composer
Jim Payne   Source Material
Van McCoy   Composer
William Bell   Composer
Gary Jackson   Composer
Major Lance   Composer
Willie Henderson   Composer
Jack Daniels   Composer
Joe Simon   Composer
Martin Goggin   Source Material
Ray Topping   Source Material
Gerald Sims   Composer
Richard Penniman   Composer
Barbara Griffin   Composer
Kevin Goins   Research
Rich Kamerman   Project Manager
Joshua Marc Levy   Design,Art Direction,Illustrations
Lee Hildebrand   Source Material
Robert Pruter   Source Material
Ivan Joseph Goldberg   Digital Remastering
Nathaniel Smith   Composer
Lee Simmons   Composer
Carl Davis   Composer
Clifford Davis   Composer
Thomas Green   Composer