Saturday, June 18, 2022

Linda Jones - I Who Have Nothing

Linda Jones had one of the most immediately recognisable voices of the Soul Music genre. There's Soul and then Deep Soul where the singer reaches to deeper emotional depths, but I think Linda needs a further , deeper category of classification. The circumstances of her death were both traumatic and sad for her many fans. She went to her mother's apartment for a short rest between the afternoon and evening performances at the nearby Apollo Theater in Harlem but slipped into a state of insulin shock and was pronounced dead that evening. The news was relayed to a packed Apollo as fans waited for her to appear. She was just 27 years old. Here she brings her unique style to a song also performed by Dame Shirley Bassey.

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GLORIA JONES - IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN

This was a big hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips but here it is sung by the Co writer who brought this out first, Gloria Jones, who was als...