1967-1968 - Oscar's Winners-Papa Don [Import]

Oscar Toney Jr. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Westside UK
• ASIN: B00000AGGB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,572 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For Your Precious Love

2. Turn on Your Love Light

3. Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)

4. That's All I Want from You

5. No Sad Songs

6. Unlucky Guy

7. You Can Lead Your Woman to the Altar

8. The Dark End of the Street

9. Down in Texas

10. Moon River

11. Ain't That True Love

12. He Will Break Your Heart

13. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man

14. Until We Meet Again

15. Just for You

16. Never Get Enough of Your Love

17. A Love That Never Grows Cold

18. Without Love (There Is Nothing)

Editorial Reviews

Every single on of this southern soul greats late 60's bell recordings all making theur CD debut herein.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of southern souls greatest balladeer's, July 10, 2003

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"swampshaka" (New Orleans, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1967-1968 - Oscar's Winners-Papa Don (Audio CD)

southern soul don't git no finer than this! pleading, passionate and thouroughly persuasive is Oscar Toney Jr.'s performance throughout these recordings. These tracks initially cut for Bell Records in 1967-1968 find Toney primarily backed by Chips Moman's American Studio house band, who never fail to deliver the goods. I suppose my attraction to these recordings lie in my taste for good ol' fashioned deep soul balladry which Oscar serves up in hearty portions here, check out Oscar's renditions of Dan Penn's "Dark End Of The Street" and "Do Right Woman-Do Right Man", also check out the reworking of Jerry Butler's gospel tinged "For your Precious Love", and if that don't do it for ya you can dip into "A Love That Never Grows Cold" or the heart wrenching "Never Get Enough Of Your Love". Oscar Toney Jr. may never have reached the popularity level which Otis Redding reached in his short career, but was every ounce as important of an artist to his generation and genre of music.