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NUMERO / US / CD / 023CD / 2008年10月24日 / 2,510円(税込)
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60年代後半にセントルイス周辺に数多く存在したと言う男女キッズ・ヴォーカル・グループに焦点を当てた画期的なソウル・コンピレーション。同地の著名プロデューサー、ALLEN MERRY関連諸作。もちろんNUMEROですからその音源のクオリティ、レア度はお墨付き。
By 1967, East St. Louis, Illinois, once dubbed an "All American" city by the US Chamber Of Comerce, had become St Louis, Missouri's evil twin. Unemployment, drug addiction and vicious gang activity put a dark and heavy lid on a bi-state area that once cooked-up world-changing talent the likes of Chuck Berry, Josephine Baker and Miles Davis. But both cities still spawned heroes, and Allen Merry was one of them. Already a living legend for his early work with Ray Charles and Ike Turner, Merry channeled his talent into teaching, forming the Young Disciples through the South End Community Center to keep the kids off the streets, out of the gangs and into the studio, where young men and women spiraling downward could ride the spiral groove upward on Merry's YoDi, Gateway and Merry labels.
With nearly eighty local youths involved from both sides of the Mississippi, the Young Disciples (named for one of the area's most notorious gangs) encompassed solo acts, duos, male and female vocal groups, a massive horn section and a troupe of African dancers. Every sweat-drenched recording included here emerged from this grass-roots organization that changed, if not saved, lives. Former East St Louis Mayor Carl Officer had a slogan he liked to pitch: " There's A City Under Here." Here's the musical proof of that possibility.
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1. The World Is Changing - LaVel Moore
2. Crumbs From The Table - The Young Disciples Co.
3. Third Flight - Third Flight
4. Tears - The Debonettes
5. Checking Myself - Ames Harris Desert Water Bag Co.
6. I'm Not Afraid Of Love - Sharon Clark & The Product Of Time
7. Anyone Or Anything - DeDe Turner Happening
8. Girls Girls Girls - The Young Disciples Co.
9. I Love You - Dauphin Williams
10. Hard Hard - Georgettes
11. Country Loving Country Style - Bobby McNutt
12. It's Not Your Business - Sharon Clark & The Product Of Time
13. People - Ames Harris Desert Water Bag Co.
14. Would You Rather - Georgettes
15. Love Love Love Third Flight
16. Choose Me - The Debonettes
17. Outside Of Memphis - DeDe Turner Happening
18. That's A Good Reason - Sharon Clark & The Product Of Time
19. I'm Your Man - Dauphin Williams
20. Bang Bang Bang - The Young Disciples Co.
21. Homeboy Pt.1 - Eddie Fisher & Allen "Death" Merry
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