Buddy & Ella Johnson - A Family Affair

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:40
Size: 116.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:51] 1. One More Time
[2:40] 2. I Don’t Want Nobody Baby
[2:42] 3. Gotta Go Upside Your Head
[3:05] 4. A Pretty Girl Cadillac And Some Money
[2:35] 5. Someday
[2:49] 6. Aint'cha Got Me
[2:51] 7. Doot Doot Dow
[2:22] 8. Well Do It
[2:47] 9. Alright Okay You Win
[3:06] 10. Thats The Stuff You Gotta Watch
[3:02] 11. Mush Mouth
[2:36] 12. Any Day Now
[3:11] 13. That’s How I Feel About You
[3:06] 14. Hittin On Me
[2:26] 15. My Old Man
[3:03] 16. Aint But One
[2:48] 17. Its About To Break My Heart In Two
[2:31] 18. Crazy Bout A Saxophone

Ella Johnson made her mark as the vocalist with her brother Buddy Johnson's big band during the '40s and '50s, and that is the context where she really shines. Her later solo sides for Mercury are pale imitations of her work with the band. Although many of Ella's hits are uptempo (e.g., "I Don't Want Nobody"), it is on ballads and torchy blues that she really brings it together. In fact, her earliest work for Decca during the mid-'40s (much of which has not been reissued) is uncannily good. At her best, Ella sounds pouty, vulnerable, and very sexy. Like so much of her life, it was no affectation. The comparison to Billie Holiday is inevitable, but Ella was her own singer. Ella Johnson passed away February 16, 2004, in New York City. ~bio by Hank Davis

A Family Affair

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