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| From | "Donnie" <largro13@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | One of the 'great lost' CDs of the early 1990s is re-released. |
| Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:18:34 -0000 |
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Thought you might like to know that Arthur Alexander's "Lonely Just
Like Me" CD has been re-released.
Alexander was a medium level Soul singer in the late 1950s and early
1960s. He fell out of favor, and by the 1980s he was driving a school
bus in Cleveland, Ohio.
Elektra Records 'rediscovered' him in the early 1990s, and released the
brilliant "Lonely Just Like Me" album. Like Roy Orbison about five
years earlier, Arthur Alexander died just as his comeback was really
getting in gear.
Alexander's main significance is that he is the songwriter of "Anna (Go
To Him)", and "Soldier Of Love" both covered by the Beatles. He's also
the author of "Go Home Girl" recorded by the Rolling Stones. And Elvis
Pressley also recorded Alexander's "Hunk Of Burning Love".
This album is one that I've really enjoyed for the last 15-years. And
I'm glad it was re-release on CD because my cassette tape went bad a
couple years back. Fantastic album that bridges the worlds between
Stax Soul, Country & Western, and Beatle's style Power-Pop.
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