Lea Roberts – When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Lea Roberts
Listen/Download – Lea Roberts – When Something Is Wrong With My Baby MP3
Greetings all.
The record I bring to you this fine day is something I picked up in one of my periodic label sweeps, i.e. a dsearch aimed specifically at Minit Records soul 45s.
I spotted the 45 by Lea Roberts (a singer that was otherwise unknown to me) and noticed that it included a cover of Sam & Dave’s ‘When Something Is Wrong With My Baby’ (written by Hayes and Porter), so naturally I had to grab it.
Good thing I did, too, since Roberts reading of the southern soul ballad classic is a powerful one, with solid production by George Butler and a very interesting arrangement by Horace Ott.
There isn’t a a lot of info out there about Roberts. He real name was Leatha Roberta Hicks and she was from Ohio.
She recorded a couple of 45s for Minit and UA before recording a pair of albums in the early to mid 70s for United Artists.
Roberts had a powerful, gospel-infused voice, and her reading of ‘When Something Is Wrong With My Baby’ is excellent. The arrangement, which features understated guitar and piano, and unusually prominent drums really catches the ear.
I will definitely be on the lookout for her albums.
I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you next week.
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Keep the faith
Larry
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Themocracy
This charted briefly in August 1969.
Hi Larry, While the listen link goes to the right file, it’s got the text label for Little Buster
Cheers
Dave
Good catch Dave! Thank you! Fixed.