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Format: CD
Mar 1996
Record Label: Charly (UK)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 5031731001221 |
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Track Listing
1. What Good Am I Without You
2. Rebecca
3. Shake a Hand - (with Linda Hopkins)
4. Georgia on My Mind
5. Heart of Love, A
6. No More Goodbyes
7. Let Me Build
8. Think Twice - (with LaVern Baker)
9. Deep Down Love
10. 3 Days, 1 Hour 30 Minutes
11. No Pity (In the Naked City)
12. I'm Going Crazy (Gotta Get You Off My Mind)
13. Lonely Teardrops - (version II)
14. Baby Workout
15. Everything's Gonna Be Fine
16. I'm So Lonely
17. Teardrop Avenue
18. Alone at Last
19. Down by the Riverside - (with Linda Hopkins)
20. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
| Details | | Distributor: | Bayside Record Dist. | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Producers include: Harry Goodman, Eddie Singleton, Bob Mersey.
Includes liner notes by Steve Bryant.
Digitally remastered by Peter Rynston (Charly Studios, London, England).
THE NEW YORK YEARS VOL. 2 is a cannily chosen overview of Jackie Wilson's album work between 1962 and 1966. It demonstrates once again that that what some have termed his artistic schizophrenia (a seeming inability to distinguish between sweaty R&B and pop schlock) was not simply a case of a bad mix between singer and producer, or a commercially motivated, artistically misguided attempt at crossover.
Yes, the music here is often schizophrenic, with terrific proto-soul and rock songs such as "No Pity in the Naked City " and "Baby Workout" brilliantly sung, but saddled with cornball, TV variety show orchestral and choral backing. Nevertheless, the fact is Wilson genuinely liked schmaltz (nobody held a gun to his head to get him to record Al Jolson songs), and in the context of the times this attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience didn't spell sellout; it was more like buying in.
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