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Product Identifiers

ProducerBill Beasley^Calvin Carter^Gene Redd^Ted Jarrett

Record LabelBfy, BEAR FAMILY

UPC4000127169426

eBay Product ID (ePID)17046067133

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2010

GenreSoul/R&B & Soul

ArtistKittrell, Christine

Release TitleCall Her Name: the Complete Recordings

Dimensions

Item Height0.41 in

Item Weight0.21 lb

Item Length5.54 in

Item Width4.97 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks31

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Call His Name 1.2 Leave My Man Alone 1.3 Don't Do It 1.4 Old Man You're Slipping 1.5 Sittin' Here Drinking 1.6 I Ain't Nothin' But a Fool 1.7 Heartache Blues 1.8 You Ain't Nothin' But Trouble 1.9 Slave to Love 1.10 Gotta Stop Loving You 1.11 I'll Help You Baby 1.12 L;N Special 1.13 Every Night in the Week 1.14 Evil-Eyed Woman 1.15 The Price You Pay for Love 1.16 Snake in the Grass 1.17 Snake in the Grass 1.18 Lord Have Mercy (I'm So Lonely) 1.19 Sittin' Here Drinking Again 1.20 Black Cat Crossed My Trail 1.21 If You Ain't Sure 1.22 I'm Just What You're Looking for 1.23 I Thank Him 1.24 Mr. Big Wheel 1.25 Sittin' and Drinkin' 1.26 I'm a Woman 1.27 It's Nobody's Fault 1.28 Next Door to the Blues 1.29 Love Letters (Straight from My Heart) 1.30 Ain't Never Seen So Much Rain Before 1.31 Call His Name

NotesA forgotten R&B legend reborn on Bear Family! This comprehensive CD collection contains: All 15 songs originally issued on the Tennessee and Republic labels, including one with Little Richard backing her! Plus five unissued alternative takes of Republic titles. All eight songs issued by Champion, Vee-Jay, and Federal, and one unissued Vee-Jay song. One song issued pseudonymously on Hit Records and Spar Records. All sourced from master tapes wherever possible. Rare photographs and memorabilia. And a 40-page booklet by Martin Hawkins based on original interviews with Christine Kittrell, her producers, and backing musicians. Christine Kittrell made some of the best R&B of the 1950s and '60s without ever becoming a household name. She was the leading nightclub vocalist on the rocking Nashville scene in the late 1940s and '50s. A marvellous singer - far more versatile than most of her contemporaries - Christine Kittrell worked with Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Memphis Slim, Little Walter, Johnny Otis and even Count Basie. Her relatively few recordings, mainly on unfashionable labels, possessed rare expressiveness that could elevate a mundane song into something exceptional. She sang late night mood songs like Heartache Blues and Don-t Do It, and pounding rockers like Call His Name and Lord Have Mercy - where she is backed by Little Richard on piano and vocals. Her rerecording of Call His Name in the 60s, became a northern soul classic. She also recorded the original version of the anthemic I-m A Woman. Her biggest hit, Sittin- Here Drinking, featured one of her trademark spoken intros.