Tucker, Anita
True And Real
Somewhere along that well travelled road, she crossed paths with Gerard Akueson, a Togolese musician and record producer
and founder of the first African music label, in Paris in 1962, Akue. Tucker released a couple of singles with Akue in
1966; she performed often in Paris in clubs like the Cabana Rhythm and the Parisienne and also appeared on French TV. It
appears that she used Paris as a base for her work throughout parts of Europe and the world. These singles seem to be
her last two recordings, firstly Lonesome Road b/w try a Little Tenderness, followed by I Cried For You b/w Youre Nobody
Till Somebody Loves You. The tracks were big band Jazzy, Rhythm & Blues and Blues. Anita displays confident control of
the material and there are shades of Dinah Washington in the tone and phrasing.
Listening to this body of work from Anita Tucker, one word springs to mind: "underrated". She was a singer with power, a
range of colour to her voice and the ability to convey Soul, Blues and passion. Though she enjoyed a long and varied
career as a singer, actress, and model, she never achieved the success of some of the other female R&B singers of the
1950s, which was maybe the material, possibly support or just plain old luck. She stayed true to the music she loved, to
her the songs were: ".real blues -earthy, sometimes dirty. But even when they were dirty, they were real.Everything
about them was true and real".
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
31-07-2020
Label
Item-nr
542601
EAN
9303195322867
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
RING-A-LING
2
A MILLION THANKS
3
I NEED LOVE
4
SLOW, SMOOTH AND EASY
5
SHIVER MY TIMBERS
6
I CRIED FOR YOU
7
LONESOME ROAD
8
HOP, SKIP AND JUMP
9
HEARTACHES AND TEARS
10
HE'S AN EVIL MAN
11
TRYING TO GET YOU
12
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
13
LET'S MAKE LOVE
14
YOU'RE NOBODY (TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU)
15
HANDCUFFED HEART
16
I'LL GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU
17
ONE AND TWO
18
IF YOU GO