Wish Someone Would Care / Take A Look

Irma Thomas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables Records
• ASIN: B000K7UFNA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,724 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wish Someone Would Care

2. I Need Your Love So Bad

3. Without Love (There Is Nothing)

4. Please Send Me Someone to Love

5. Another Woman's Man

6. Sufferin' with the Blues

7. Time Is on My Side

8. While the City Sleeps

9. Straight from the Heart

10. I've Been There

11. I Need You So

12. Break-A-Way

13. Take a Look

14. Teasing, But You're Pleasing

15. I Haven't Got Time to Cry

16. You Don't Miss a Good Thing (Until It's Gone)

17. Some Things You Never Get Used To

18. Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)

19. It's Starting to Get to Me Now

20. Times Have Changed

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!!, January 30, 2009

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Stephen Espinola "obsessive music" (Brooklyn NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wish Someone Would Care / Take A Look (Audio CD)

Irma's 1964 and 1966 albums for Imperial/Liberty records, on one CD. No-frills mastering & packaging, vintage mixes, non-brickwalled (!!!!), and apparently from original or at least decent master tapes. Some of the fades seem to end abruptly, but checking against the same mixes released elsewhere, no music is missing--I think this is the way the songs were mixed back then! (60's faders had their limitations.)

If you are discovering Irma's early recordings, I'd buy one of the best-of's first, perhaps. The Kent set "Time is On My Side" is my favorite, and an out of print 1992 EMI set ("Vol. 1") has some additional Ron Furmanek remixes that actually sound better than some of the original bounced-down 1964 stereo mixes. The "Take A Look" album seems to have always had a slightly hazy sound in its original mixes, too.

But collectors and fans have been waiting to hear most of this stuff on CD for a couple decades...or they've paid top dollar for other CDs just to get another one or two of the deep tracks featured here.

The "Take a Look" album is probably better sequenced and selected than her first album, and weirdly, a bunch of Irma's best performances of the era didn't make it to either of these albums back then (four great songs weren't released at all until 1992). Most of this material is in a different, more bombastic, high-production vein than her earlier New Orleans-styled stuff for Minit. You will want to do some additional exploring.

No complaints about this CD. Fans will need it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded my Expectations, May 25, 2009

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Mark Ligget (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wish Someone Would Care / Take A Look (Audio CD)

This CD exceeded my expectations. One of my top five albums ever(really, it's two albums). I wasn't that familiar with Irma Thomas except from "Break-a-way" and "Time Is On My Side". Well, there's more where that came from. Most of the album is more in the "Time is on my Side" vein,(but with a bit smaller choir). Irma embodies the best aspects of the 'gospel/girl group' styles but is never self-indulgent or distracting here. She soars. The arrangements are perfect for the songs, except I do prefer Tom Jones' interpretation of "Without Love (I Have Nothing)". The rest of the songs are well chosen and I wish I knew the musicians playing, they rock, especially the drummer who is always doing a fill or a turn that fits. Drummers, take a lesson! Did I mention the sound quality is excellent (altho there might be a slight degradation on the 'Take a Look' cuts). Highly recommended.