Time Was When

Hadda Brooks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 1996)
• Original Release Date: February 20, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000WAS
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,577 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time Was When

2. My Romance

3. You Won't Let Me Go

4. I Must Have That Man

5. I'm a Fool to Want You

6. I Feel So Good

7. Miss Brown to You

8. Can You Look Me in the Eye?

9. You Go Your Way and I'll Go Crazy

10. Close Your Eyes (And I'll Be There)

11. The Thrill Is Gone

12. Mama's Blues

13. How Do You Speak to an Angel?

14. I Hadn't Anyone Till You

15. Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great voice is reborn, March 23, 2001

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Carlos Torres Moura (Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Was When (Audio CD)

Hadda Brooks is phenomenal. She was eighty in 1996, when this CD was produced. When almost all artists are retired, she went back (her first records were made in the forties) to a studio to play and sing with a teenager's strength and disposition, giving us amazing performances. Her voice remembers Alberta Hunter's last recordings but Hadda's has a personal style besides playing the piano herself (and what a piano! ). The CD is a flawless collection of standards with some themes from Billie Holiday's universe ("I'm a fool to want you", "Miss Brown to you" ) and a superb and dramatic version of "Close your eyes", a Carter&Desmond's masterpiece from the thirties. With her powerful strikes on the piano, some tracks have brilliant contribuitions of Richard Dodd on the cello. There's no drums, no strings orchestra, no excess. Only "Senator" Eugene Wright on bass, Al Viola on guitar and Dodd. And, of course, the incomparable Hadda's swing and emotion. Buy it fast!

1.0 out of 5 stars Hadda Brooks - Time Was When, August 25, 2011

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This review is from: Time Was When (Audio CD)

The recording is excellent. Unfortunately this was done in 1996 when Hadda Brooks was 70+ years old. She must have been something when she was younger (see Humphrey Bogart 1950 movie where she sang) but this CD is an old tired woman singing 1950's blues. Good historically but not very entertaining.