Lost Soul Queen [Extra tracks, Import]

Betty Harris | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Aim Records
• ASIN: B000AMUUGC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cry to Me

2. I Don't Want to Hear It

3. The Trouble with My Lover

4. Nearer to You

5. I'm Evil Tonight

6. What Did I Do Wrong

7. I'm Gonna Get You

8. Mean Man

9. Hook Line and Sinker

10. Twelve Red Roses

11. Lonely Hearts

12. Ride Your Pony

13. I Can't Last Much Longer

14. I'll Be a Liar

15. Sometime

16. All I Want Is You

17. What a Sad Feeling

18. Bad Luck

19. Break in the Road

20. Take Care of Your Love [*]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This collection of Allen Toussaint-produced works includes recordings from Jubilee Sansu and SSS International also featuring two rare bonus tracks with Lee Dorsey. Harris’s very first Jubilee release, Cry to Me, entered Billboard’s pop Top 40 in 1963 and became the biggest seller of her career!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars jumping Jehosephat!, April 7, 2008

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Nicolas S. Martin (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Soul Queen (Audio CD)

Somehow Betty Harris escaped my attention for 52 years. My bad. Her voice is positively drenched with emotion, and this collection is solid. She could hold her own with Mavis and Ann Peebles, and even Aretha, who, it must be admitted benefitted from the very best material. Shoot, this disc is worth buying just for the amazing starter, "Cry Baby," which I am now trying to convince my 5-year-old to adopt as her torch song. Maybe someday my girl can grow up to be a lost soul queen, too!

Because I was not familiar with Betty, she isn't stale. (I admit I can hardly stand to hear the old Aretha, no insult intended. I've just heard her too much. The Supremes? Forget it!) While the production technology is not up to contemporary standards, it certainly doesn't get in the way of the emotion -- it's basic black. In fact, it may be a good thing that it is raw. Imagine how much of the power of James Brown lies in the fact that his rough edges weren't trimmed off by the likes of Clive Davis or Tommy Mottola. If there is justice -- and there isn't, of course -- Betty Harris's music will endure long after Mariah Carey and Joss Stone are forgotten.

Amazon takes you on a sort of lost soul queen treasure hunt. If you find one then up pop recommendations for another 2 or three. And listening to the song samples, they sound pretty good. But none sounds better than Betty, and it is a joy to listen to the real thing instead of the slick, mechanized product of today. We need fewer American Idols and more rediscovered soul queens.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT WAS SO DOGGONE GOOD I CRIED MYSELF!!!!, December 28, 2006

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Martin L. King "zonule" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Soul Queen (Audio CD)

betty harris had me the instant i heard her version of solomon burke's CRY TO ME. i knew that it was gonna be that elevation, and i was not disappointed. definitely buy this cd. it will be worth the purchase now!!!!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I got hooked, January 13, 2006

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COMPUTERJAZZMAN "computerjazzman" (Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lost Soul Queen (Audio CD)

I originally bought the CD "Soul Perfection Plus" and got hooked on Betty Harris. So I am trying to get everything available by her and now this CD is available. She really is the Lost Soul Queen. This CD has some of the same songs as the other CD, but I guess that's the price I've got to pay.