Celebrating International Women's History Month Focus on Emily Remler and Johnnie Mae Matthews / Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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Real Name: Lesley Sue Goldstein / The song's lyrics became an inspiration for younger women, and are sometimes cited as a factor in the so-called "second wave feminist movement". // Click the Link above, left to view the original single, with a picture sleeve.
"The Queen of Soul" was also _BORN_ on Woman's Month: March 13, 1942 // Click on Link above/ left, to view the single, with a partial _color_ picture sleeve
Possibly Koko Taylor or Cookie Jackson, attribution is unknown. It has been at times attributed to Johnnie Mae Matthews but it is not her.
Apparently some DJ at an English "Northern Soul" club got hold of an unreleased acetate recording by a US female soul singer, and covered up the inner label with the name "Johnnie Mae Matthews", to hide the true identity.
Best-known by Nina Simone's version, as 'I Wish I Knew'; recorded by many people, including Solomon Burke, Marlena Shaw, Glenn Yarbrough and John Denver(!!). / Click on Link above/ left, to read all 99 different versions.
"The Queen of Soul" was also _BORN_ on Woman's Month: March 13, 1942 / Franklin and session background vocalists "The Sweet Inspirations" were singing the song for fun while rehearsing for the "Aretha Now" album, and they reinvented Dionne's original, mainly through the prominence of Clayton Ivey's piano. // This was originally the B-side of Aretha's 'The House That Jack Built' single.
Atlantic's 1st release that was made available on the then-new 7"/ 45 rpm format, Jan 1951 {previously all recdordings were issued on 10", 78rpm shellac} - Click on Link above/ left, to view the single.
Recorded at the Rainbow Room, Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia on February 22nd 1972 for broadcast on WMMR-FM. // Click on Link above, left, to view the CD / * - BITD we called 'em "bootlegs"
Ranked #56 in "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. // The term "Guyville", comes from a song of the same name by Urge Overkill. Phair explained that "For me, Guyville is a concept that combines the smalltown mentality of a 500-person Knawbone, KY.-type town with the Wicker Park indie music scene in Chicago, plus the isolation of every place I've lived in, from Cincinnati to Winnetka". There's much more, just click the link above, left to read it all. // Phair commented in interviews that the album was a song-by-song reply to 'Exile on Main St.'
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The Slits [Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Ariane Forster, Ari Up and Paloma Romero *]
* - including The Dream Syndicate, The Three O'Clock, Rain Parade and The Bangles (Susanna Hoffs) / ** Live at CBGB's, NY, NYC - 1978 // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original album
* - Recorded live: April 11th, 1972 in Cleveland, OH; // ** - as 'Fanny: Live In 1972'; limited to 100 CD copies, as part of an Indiegogo fund raising campaign.
The Shangri-Las lead singer, Mary Weiss, died Jan 15th, at age 75. / * - This was the _only_ Shsangri-Las re-make on her CD. // Click on Link above/ left, to view the CD
