Clyde McPhatter - The Best of Clyde McPhatter album flac

A new version of Last. Deep Sea Ball: The Best of Clyde McPhatter. Overview (current section).

Those who are most familiar with McPhatter's singing from his days with the Drifters will be pleased by all 19 songs here, which represent a more mature voice and embody musical ambitions that carried McPhatter toward the same kind of expansive, pop-oriented R&B that Sam Cooke also started working toward (and would hit bigger with) a couple of years later. Treasure of Love" and "A Lover's Question" may be McPhatter's best remembered solo hits, but even the non-chart sides here, like "I Can't Stand Up Alone" (which harks back to McPhatter's roots as a gospel singer) and the big-band R&B of "I'm Lonely Tonight," are gorgeous pieces of music that demand to be heard.

Album: The Best Of Clyde McPhatter (1958). Charted: 6. Get the Sheet Music License This Song.

Clyde McPhatter was one of the great lead R&B singers of the 1950s. His emotive high tenor voice led his vocal group, The Drifters, to tremendous popularity. His subsequent solo career brought him pop chart cross-over success, and a career that prefigured the development of both the rock and roll and soul genres. It has also been cited as the first time a black band cut a rock and roll record that crossed to the popular music charts. Despite Ward’s heavy-handed dominance of the group’s billing and finance, McPhatter sang with the Dominoes for three years, fueling such further hits as The Bells, These Foolish Things Remind Me of You and Have Mercy Baby while sustaining a vigorous live performing schedule. But he remained in Ward’s shadow and was paid a meager salary. Dissatisfied, he left in 1953.