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| From | "Mike Kropp" <mkropp@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: One of the 'great lost' CDs of the early 1990s is re-released. |
| Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:41:56 -0400 |
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GREAT album and the re-issue is expanded with extra stuff including a live performance originally broadcast on NPR's "Fresh Air".
The album was produced by my hero Ben Vaughn, who also plays in Arthur's backing band.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donnie" <largro13@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: One of the 'great lost' CDs of the early 1990s is re-released.
> 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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