Big Maybelle

Listen/Download – Big Maybelle – 96 Tears MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is a 45 that I chased after for years, only finally scoring a decent copy last year.

Big Maybelle was a star of the early years of R&B, having been recording since 1947 and having a string of hits in the early to mid 1950s.

By the time she recorded Question Mark and the Mysterians ’96 Tears’ in 1966, she was in her 40s and her career was all but over.

Her version of ’96 Tears’ takes the original and gives it a big, soulful punch, with a great repeated horn line and a confident, powerful vocal.

The cut is available on 45, but was also on her 1966 LP (with one of the weirdest cover drawings of all time) for Rojac, ‘Got a Brand New Bag’, which I’d love to find as it includes covers of tunes by the Troggs, Donovan, the Beatles, Los Bravos and Dr. West’s Medicine Show And Junk Band’s ‘The Eggplant That Ate Chicago’ (written by a young Norman ‘Spirit In the Sky’ Greenbaum).

That said, this is a dance floor burner, and I hope you dig it.

I’ll see you all next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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