CD of the Month: Timmy Thomas on Henry Stone Music |
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013 15:06 |
Timmy Thomas is a musician, singer
and song writer, whose signature recording is “Why Can't We Live Together". He was born in Evansville,
Indiana, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee
in the 1960s as a session musician. By 1972 he had relocated to Miami Florida
and his recording “Why Can't We Live
Together" was released on Glades records. The song was recorded in one
take and featured Timmy Thomas
singing and playing the keyboards without any other musicians. This was a big
hit and went up to No. 1 on the R&B charts. Glades released his freshmen
album that year and named after his first big hit. They followed that up with his
sophomore album You're the Song I've
Always Wanted to Sing in 1974. The third LP released by Timmy Thomas was
titled The Magician in 1976 and then
in 1977 the LP Touch to Touch album was
released.
Henry
Stone Music has reissued two of the classic Timmy Thomas albums from the 1970s and they are digitally
re-mastered. The first one is the 1974 LP called “You're the Song I've Always Wanted to Sing”. Joining Timmy Thomas
on this outing were other Henry Stone Music musicians and vocalists who
recorded on Glades, TK and Cat. They were Betty Wright, George Chocolate Perry,
Robert Furgeson, Jerome Smith, Willie "Little Beaver" Hale and Willie
Clarke.

The
tracks include:
1.
You’re The Song
2.
I’ve Got To See You Tonight
3.
Sweet Brown Sugar
4.
Deep In You
5.
Spread Us Around
6.
One Brief Moment
7.
What Can I Tell Her
8.
Ebony Affair
9.
Let Me Be Your Eyes”
The
1977 album Touch To Touch has also
been reissued by Henry Stone Music. This is a funky delivery by Tommy Thomas and he is joined by Betty
Wright as a guest vocalist. The project was produced and arranged by King Sporty
and the horn section was a group called the Deep Roots Band. For the most part
this is a dance album.

The
tracks include:
1.
Touch To Touch
2.
Africano
3.
When A House Got Music
4.
Game Of Life
5.
Love For The People
6. Torrid
Zone
7.
Diane
8.
Sweet Music
Style: R&B, Funk, Disco
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