The title is a little misleading. If you're expecting traditional '50s/'60s or '70s R&B on this labor of love, you're going be disappointed because none of that is here. This is '40s R&B, which is really easy listening; the kind of music bands and singers perform in club scenes in those old black-and-white movies (as some of these were). Dipper compiled singles by Churchill that originally appeared on those big, fragile 78 rpm records in the various settings she made them with: The Four Tunes, the Striders, King Odom Four, ...
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The title is a little misleading. If you're expecting traditional '50s/'60s or '70s R&B on this labor of love, you're going be disappointed because none of that is here. This is '40s R&B, which is really easy listening; the kind of music bands and singers perform in club scenes in those old black-and-white movies (as some of these were). Dipper compiled singles by Churchill that originally appeared on those big, fragile 78 rpm records in the various settings she made them with: The Four Tunes, the Striders, King Odom Four, the Five Kings, and the Ray Charles Singers. Fans of this genre and era of music are probably drooling as they read that a CD like this is available because if they had the original 78s, they probably don't now; but if they still do, most likely, they don't have anything to play them on. ~ Andrew Hamilton, Rovi
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