Gripsweat is shutting down. Starting on February 1st, 2025 the site will no longer be doing daily updates, adding any new items, or accepting new memberships. The site will continue to run in this "historical" mode until January 1st, 2026, when the site will go offline. More information is available here.
SUPERB ROCKING R&B NAPPY BROWN 78 LITTLE BY LITTLE UK LONDON HLC 8384 E/E-
Sold Date:
March 5, 2023
Start Date:
January 5, 2023
Final Price:
£25.00
(GBP)
Seller Feedback:
13782
Buyer Feedback:
0
This item is not for sale. Gripsweat is an archive of past sales and auctions, none of the items are available for purchase.
GREAT POP ROCKING R&B FROM EX-GOSPEL MAN NAPPY BROWN
LITTLE BY LITTLE
b/w I'M GETTING LONESOME
Nobody sounded much like Nappy Brown during the mid-'50s. Exotically rolling his consonants with sing-song impunity (allegedly, Savoy Records boss Herman Lubinsky thought Brown was singing in Yiddish), bellowing the blues with gospel-inspired ferocity, Brown rode rock & roll's first wave for a few glorious years before his records stopped selling. But in the early '80s, Brown seemingly rose from the dead to stage a comeback bid. He became ensconced once again as a venerable blues veteran who'd stop at nothing (including rolling around the stage in sexual simulation) to enthrall his audience.
Napoleon Brown's sanctified screams come naturally -- he grew up in Charlotte, NC, singing gospel as well as blues. He was fronting a spiritual aggregation, the Heavenly Lights, who were signed to the roster of Newark, NJ's Savoy Records when Lubinsky convinced the leather-lunged shouter to cross the secular line in 1954. Voilà, Nappy Brown the R&B singer was born.
Brown brought hellfire intensity to his blues-soaked Savoy debut, "Is It True," but it was "Don't Be Angry" the next year that caused his fortunes to skyrocket. The sizzling rocker sported loads of Brown's unique vocal gimmicks and a hair-raising tenor sax solo by Sam "The Man" Taylor, becoming his first national smash. Those onboard New York session aces didn't hurt the overall ambience of Brown's Savoy dates --Taylor's scorching horn further enlivened "Open Up That Door," while Budd Johnson or Al Sears took over on other equally raucous efforts. Rocking Novelty-tinged upbeat items such as "Little by Little" and "Piddily Patter Patter" defined Brown's output.
DISC DETAILS
UK LONDON HLC-8384 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
SIDE A:- LITTLE BY LITTLE
SIDE B:- I'M GETTING LONESOME
CONDITION - E-
Two great R & B Sides from NAPPY BROWN
ONE ONLY ON OFFER
SO DON'T MISS OUT
BUY NOW
