[Captain Bacardi]

Tamiko Jones
I'LL BE ANYTHING FOR YOU
A&M/CTi SP-3011

Released 1968

Format: Vinyl/8-Track/Reel-to-Reel

Produced by Creed Taylor

Songs:

1. I'll Be Anything For You (Bobby Hebb) - 2:45
2. Goodnight, My Love (Mottola/Marascaico) - 2:35
3. Where Are They Now? (Brad Craich/Py Whitney) - 2:45
4. Cottage For Sale (W. Robinson/L. Conley) - 2:45
5. Black Is Black (Hayes/Wadey/Grainger) - 2:55
6. Try It Baby (Berry Gordy, Jr.) - 3:15
7. This Time Tomorrow (Dee Ervin/Yionna Watkins) - 2:40
8. Please Return Your Love To Me (Whitfield/Strong/Neely) - 2:00
9. Peace Of Mind (Nick Woods) - 2:50
10. I've Got My Eyes On You (Les Reed/Jackie Rae) - 2:40
11. Suddenly (Solomon Burke) - 2:40
12. Ya Ya (Lewis/Dorsey/Levy) - 2:10

Tracks 1, 2 & 3 - Rhythm tracks arranged by Solomon Burke; Strings arranged by Teacho Wiltshire
Tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 11 - Arranged and conducted by Teacho Wiltshire
Tracks 8 & 10 - Rhythm tracks arranged and conducted by Horace Ott; Strings arranged by Don Sebesky
Track 12 arranged by Artie Butler

Musicians:
Tamiko Jones - Vocals
Solomon Burke - Vocals (6, 8 )
Piano & Organ: Bobby Emmons, Richard Tee and Bobby Wood
Bass: Chuck Rainey
Drums: Gene Chrisman, Herb Lovelle and Bernard Purdie
Percussion: Warren Smith
Guitar: Tom Cogbill, Bill Fontaine, Eric Gale, Mike Leech, Carl Lynch, David Spinozza and Reggie Young
Trumpet: Ray Copeland, Harold Johnson, Mel Lastie, Irvin Markowitz and Marvin Stamm
Trombone: Ben Powell and Alan Ralph
Saxophone: Joe Grimm, Howard Johnson, Romeo Penque, Seldon Powell and Jerome Richardson
Violin: Ben Blumenreich, Lewis Eley, Paul Gershman, Joseph Haber, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, Joseph Singer, Irving Spice and Louis Stone
Viola: Seymour Berman, Selwart Clarke, David Sackson, Murray Sandry and Emanuel Vardi
Cello: Seymour Barab, George Ricci and Alan Schulman

Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 12 recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studio on June 4, 1968
Remaining tracks recorded at Van Gelder Studios
Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer
Recorded August 15, 29; September 17, 1968

Cover photograph by Pete Turner
Album Design by Sam Antupit
Liner notes by Peter J. Levinson



Capt. Bacardi
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[Dave]

Pretty good effort by Ms. Jones who also recorded for the obscure December label and in the '70's made a few '45's and even an LP for Atlantic...

The duet Please Return Your Love To Me, with Solomon Burke is good... The other duet, with Solomon Burke Try It, Babe, isn't...

--Wish I hadn't been told to "Turn my Volume down" while I was asleep BEFORE that one started--should'a been able to see what I'd dream during it, too; I had a hard time falling asleep AFTERWARDS...!!

Much of the album was recorded in Memphis and it was nice to see what Tamiko could do in Rudy Van Gelder's studio, as well...



Dave

[W.B.]

[seashorepiano]

Haven't had the opportunity to listen to this album yet. I'll Be Anything for You is neck-in-neck with George Benson's Tell It Like It Is in terms of difficulty in obtaining. From what I heard on her collaboration with Herbie Mann in A Mann and a Woman she has a good voice, good dynamics and diction. This A&M effort will probably be better than the other soul act by Richard Barbary.
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[Captain Bacardi]

This is an interesting, if not unusual CTi release. It hardly qualifies as jazz, but is a very 60's-sounding R&B effort. I just happened to find this a couple of weeks ago. This sounds a lot like those old Gladys Knight albums during the "Midnight Train To Georgia" period. I really enjoyed "Cottage For Sale" and "Peace Of Mind". Overall, a pretty decent album. 3 & 1/2 stars from me.

One question: Who had the hit of "Black Is Black"? I hear it on oldies stations all the time by some male vocalist. Anyone know for sure?



Capt. Bacardi
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[LPJim]

"Black on Black" was originally done by Los Bravos in 1966 and was their only hit single.
JB
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[seashorepiano]

After a few years of looking for it locally, I finally found and bought this album. I was a little disappointed by it. Jones had a lovely voice, but the songs seemed repetitive and none of them had the spark that certain tracks on Barbary's Soul Machine did. There's some good Hammond playing here, but overall it's a .
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There are some people, in fact, who equate all and any sounds with music--a piece of fallacious reasoning if I ever heard one. - Ira Gitler

[Dave]

[Dave]

This seems very unlike the Tamiko Jones/Herbie Mann, collaboration, A Man and A Woman... Though you can say in a more positive way, with Tamiko heard more up front, as with Herbie, her vocals were quite buried in the songs, coming off a bit as "a lesser Astrud Gilberto"...



Dave

[Dave]

[LPJim]

"There's a Baby" also appears on Judith Durham's GIFT OF SONG (A&M SP 4240).

JB
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