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Miss Rhythm by BROWN,RUTH [Audio CD] - Picture 2 of 2

Miss Rhythm by Ruth Brown (CD, 1959)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelHallmark

UPC5050457168223

eBay Product ID (ePID)18050156239

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year1959

GenreRock 'n' Roll, Oldies

ArtistRuth Brown

Release TitleMiss Rhythm

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Additional informationRuth Brown's second LP is a minor masterpiece, built around a handful of hit singles and B-sides from the prior year ("Book of Lies," "Just Too Much," "When I Get You Baby," "This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'," "Why Me") and containing a pair of current single sides, "Jack O' Diamonds" and "I Can't Hear a Word You Say." Brown is amazing in her range, from the upbeat, romantic "I Hope We Meet (On the Road Someday)" to the jaunty shouter "Why Me" -- her timbre ranges from sweetly romantic to hard and raspy, and listening to the transformations, between the smooth, quick tempo "Just Too Much" to the hard, lusty "Somebody Touched Me," one thinks of a distaff Sam Cooke. Brown's accompaniments may have lacked the polish of Cooke's sides, and she wasn't really shooting for pop-crossover success (though she saw some). Her singing even overcomes excessively pop-oriented arrangements on "When I Get You Baby." At various times, in her upper register, Brown recalls Clyde McPhatter's falsetto singing, while in her middle and lower registers, as on "I Can't Hear a Word You Say," she comes up with a power that could melt a microphone stand. ~ Bruce Eder