The Second Time Around

Etta James | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geffen
• ASIN: B000002OAM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,836 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #36 in Music > Blues > Vocal Blues

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Etta James was just 22 when she made the recordings for this album in 1960 and '61, but she had already established herself as a youthful belter of spirited R&B numbers. Like Aretha Franklin in the same period, James felt pressure from recording executives to go in different directions. Chess was unsure whether to market her as an R&B singer or to press her toward mainstream adult pop and jazz. This CD presents both sides of the coin, with James doing rousing R&B numbers such as "Seven Day Fool" and the protosoul of "Don't Cry Baby," lounge tunes like "One for My Baby," the jazz-flavored ballad "Fool That I Am," and Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." It hardly matters, though, for James's emotional immediacy and potent delivery make all the material her own. --Stuart Broomer

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The Second Time Around by Etta James

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Etta At Her Early Best, April 24, 1999

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This review is from: The Second Time Around (Audio CD)

Her "At Last" CD is REALLY GREAT but this disc is even BETTER. Better variety of songs and more complex arrangemewents with less clutter to them. For example, both albums have a pseudo jazz/r&b novelty cut on them but "Plum Nuts" doesn't have the hokey backup vocals that ruined "Tough Mary" on the "At Last" LP. In Fact, Riley Hampton's arrangements have the class of Nelson Riddle's work for Sinatra and the earthiness of Belford Hendricks' arrangements for Dinah Washington. Etta has made more famous recordings but "The Second Time Around" will always be one of her landmark achievements.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Find this Classic Etta CD--It explodes with "Oh, Yeeeah!", April 14, 2004

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Second Time Around (Audio CD)

It has track to track excellence! From Plum Nuts to (I'll Be Your) Seven Day Fool to two of my very favorites. Her rendition of One for My Baby (One More for the Road) and the superb, smoky, sultry Fool That I Am. That tune--Fool That I Am--is perfection! Trust me.

5.0 out of 5 stars FROM LP TO CD!!!!!, November 13, 2010

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Ben R. Grego "ben1011" (COLUMBUS, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Second Time Around (Audio CD)

I bought the LP when it first came out; still have it....was so pleased to see it on CD!!!!!

This is the best of all her albums, I think!!

Saw her live in Cleveland OH back in the early 1960's; she literally rocked the small club she was appearing at.....her accompaniment was a group of high school guys; they looked pretty nervous, as who wouldn't be; at one point during the show, she turned sharply and said something to one of these poor guys; have no idea what it was, but the guy had a really surprised look on his face; did he hit a wrong note? wrong tempo? we'll never know!!
I went back to her dressing room and got her autograph..she was very nice and you could tell she was a little tired after her performance.....later I heard she was using drugs.....too bad......