After leaving the Vibraharps, Donnie Elbert scored a Top 20 R&B hit in 1957 with the single "What Can I Do." This collection covers the recordings he made for the King/DeLuxe label during the years 1957-58.
Tracks:
1.What Can I Do
2.Hear My Plea
3.Believe It Or Not
4.Tell Me So
5.Leona
6.Have I Sinned
7.Wild Child
8.Let's Do The Stroll
9.My Confession Of Love
10.Peek A Boo
11.I Want To Be Loved But Only By You
12.Someone Made You For Me
13.I Want To Be Near You
14.Come On Sugar
15.Just A Little Bit Of Lovin'
16.When You're Near Me
17.Do Whatcha Wanna
18.I Keep Falling In Love
19.Lily Lou
20.Run Little Girl
21.Who's It Gonna Be
22.I Want To Be Loved (Outake)
Product Description:
Contains tracks originally released on King Records.
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Donnie Elbert's initial run as a solo artist happened in the late '50s with a series of singles recorded for the King subsidiary Deluxe. All of those sides are collected here, including his one chart hit, the soul-squeezing falsetto masterpiece "What Can I Do." Elbert spent the next decade as a soul gypsy traveling from small label to even smaller label for a single or two before moving on to the next (don't worry, he eventually found a home in the '70s with All Platinum). Added to the Deluxe label catalog here are several sides recorded for the Gateway label in 1964, including a nice ballad, "Who's It Gonna Be," and three pleasingly danceable Motown sound-alikes, "Lily Lou," "Do Whatcha Wanna," and "Run Little Girl." There's also an outtake version of "I Want to Be Loved But Only By You" with the title truncated to "I Want to Be Loved" and an unaccredited outtake from the Deluxe sessions that first appeared on a mid-'70s greatest-hits collection, "I Keep Falling in Love." ~ Wade Kergan
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