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ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE FORTE LABEL (NUMERO GROUP)

VARIOUS - ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE FORTE LABEL 146847
format:
1 CD
release:
03.09.2013
label:
NUMERO GROUP
genre:
World
item ID:
146847
barcode:
0825764104722
In 1969, after three years as Soul Sister #1 to James Brown's touring entourage, Marva Whitney came home to Kansas City, putting Ellis Taylor's Forte label back at full fighting strength.

She'd calmed aching crowds the day after MLK's death, and she'd lived the life, despite its rigors_to pour out her pain and exuberance on Forte sides including "I've Lived The Life" and "Daddy Don't Know About Sugar Bear," which made national rounds in 1972.

By then, Forte had already done more than deliver Marvelous Marva to market. Taylor worked overtime at KPRS to bring the world The Rayons, who'd stroll their girl group harmonies past Chicago's RCA studios on "Baby Be Good." In '68, The Four Darlings sauntered in with smoky-voiced soul operatics on the demanding "Give Me Love." Progressing in the middle '70s, Everyday People got "Super Black" on Forte's pine-green label.

Still powering forward some 13 years on, Forte redawned with the 1980s, essaying disco funk with Sharon Revoal's "Reaching for Our Star." Numero 047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label charts Kansas City yeoman's work, the Carpets and the Derbys, dapper clothiers mysteriously murdered, and marriages made and broken.

In 28 LP tracks or 21 on CD, plus a trove of promo headshots and every-hued label scans detailing all iterations of Forte's logo in print, this 16th Eccentric Soul sojourn hands over vivid floor shakers and lost dance craze records alike_though what moves "The Hen" required remains anyone's guess.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. GENE WILLIAMS DON'T LET YOUR LOVE FADE
  • 1.2. LEE HARRIS I'M GONNA GET YOUR THING
  • 1.3. THE TEAR DROPS I'M GONNA GET YOU
  • 1.4. LOUIS CHACHERE THE HEN PT. 1
  • 1.5. THE FANTASTICKS CRY NIGHT AND DAY
  • 1.6. MARVA WHITNEY I'VE LIVED THE LIFE
  • 1.7. THE FABULOUS RHYTHM MAKERS MINI MINI AFRO TWIST
  • 1.8. TONY ASHLEY I'LL NEVER BE SATISFIED
  • 1.9. THE RAYONS YOU CONFUSE ME BABY
  • 1.10. THE FOUR DARLINGS BABY YOUR LOVE IS AMAZING
  • 1.11. LEE HARRIS LOOKIN' GOOD
  • 1.12. MARVA WHITNEY DADDY DON'T KNOW ABOUT SUGAR BEAR
  • 1.13. GENE WILLIAMS WHATEVER YOU DO DO, DO IT GOOD
  • 1.14. EVERYDAY PEOPLE IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?
  • 1.15. THE RAYONS BABY BE GOOD
  • 1.16. TONY ASHLEY ALL ALONG I'VE LOVED YOU
  • 1.17. LEE HARRIS I'VE GOT TO HAVE SOMEBODY'S LOVE
  • 1.18. EVERYDAY PEOPLE SUPER BLACK
  • 1.19. JAMES WHITNEY WITH FUN IN MY LIFE
  • 1.20. SHARON REVOAL REACHING FOR OUR STAR
  • 1.21. MARVA WHITNEY NOTHING I'D RATHER BE
  • 1.22. THE FOUR DARLINGS GIVE ME LOVE
  • 1.23. UNKNOWN ARTIST DEAREST LOVER
  • 1.24. THE FANTASTICKS LIVE AND LET LIVE
  • 1.25. THE FABULOUS RHYTHM MAKERS YOU GOTTA BE DOING IT
  • 1.26. LEE HARRIS SKATE BOOGALOO AND KARATE TOO
  • 1.27. THE TEAR DROPS DON'T FADE AWAY
  • 1.28. MARVA WHITNEY WE NEED MORE