Ruth Brown - Miss Rhythm (Mono Remastered Edition) (1959/2025) [Official Digital Download]

It was the great Duke Ellington who in 1949 recommended Ruth Brown, who had once been fired from the Lucky Millinder band, to Herb Abramson and his young label Atlantic Records. Also good, because it was Ruth Brown who made Atlantic famous, here one should not confuse cause and effect. She achieved this with 24 R&B hit singles from 1949 to 1960, five of which also entered the Billboard pop charts.

Ruth Brown's second album is a little masterpiece, based on a handful of hit singles and B-sides from the previous year ("Book of Lies", "Just Too Much", "When I Get You Baby", "This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'", "Why Me") and a few current singles, "Jack O' Diamonds" and "I Can't Hear a Word You Say". Brown's range is amazing, from the cheerful, romantic "I Hope We Meet (On the Road Someday)" to the brisk shouter "Why Me" - her timbre ranges from sweet-romantic to hard and rough, and listening to her transformations, between the gentle, fast tempo of "Just Too Much" and the hard, lustful "Somebody Touched Me", one thinks of a female Sam Cooke. Brown's accompaniment may have lacked sophistication over that of Cookes and she hasn't really been able to mark pop crossover successes (although some have been there). However, her vocals even outshine exaggerated pop-oriented arrangements on "When I Get You Baby". On several occasions, in her upper register, Brown recalls the falsetto of Clyde McPhatter, while in her middle and lower registers, as with "I Can't Hear a Word You Say", she comes up with a power that could melt a microphone stand.

TRACKLIST

1. Ruth Brown - This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' (Remastered)
2. Ruth Brown - Just Too Much (Remastered)
3. Ruth Brown - I Hope We Meet (On the Road Some Day) (Remastered)
4. Ruth Brown - Why Me (Remastered)
5. Ruth Brown - Somebody Touched Me (Remastered)
6. Ruth Brown - When I Get You Baby (Remastered)
7. Ruth Brown - Jack O' Diamonds (Remastered)
8. Ruth Brown - I Can't Hear a Word You Say (Remastered)
9. Ruth Brown - One More Time (Remastered)
10. Ruth Brown - Book of Lies (Remastered)
11. Ruth Brown - I Can See Everybody's Baby (Remastered)
12. Ruth Brown - Show Me (Remastered)



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