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Jackie Day - Dig It The Most CD Kent

Jackie Day - Dig It The Most CD Kent magazine cover

Brand new release from Kent Records.

The Complete Jackie Day: Dig It The Most.

Most of us should know at least one Jackie Day song. even though she more or less failed to hit Stateside several 45's have hit with Northern Soul lovers. Two on Modern, "Before It's Too Late" and "Oh What Heartaches", both considered classics, the monster Stafford spin "Naughty Boy" to the recent discovery that has been getting major plays on the scene "Get To Steppin'"

An essential buy for lovers of Rare Soul Music.

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Here's what Ady Croasdell has to say......

It has been at the back of my mind to compile an album of tracks by Jackie Day, a charming and elegant woman I met in the 80s, for many years. Back then I wanted to promote her singing talents in any way I could and some live performances were arranged overseas, but personal matters intervened, preventing her from visiting the UK. I could see that an LP of her recordings would have been viable, but there just didn’t seem to be enough material for a CD.

Jackie’s first recordings were made for Music City, a label run by Ray Dobard, a stubborn entrepreneur who didn’t have much time for white music business operators like me or my colleagues. Consequently her Music City tracks were unlikely to be licensable nor was her ‘Naughty Boy’ 45, which she cut for a company owned by Johnny Cochran (the father of the lawyer who got O.J. Simpson acquitted). A continued lack of response from the Cochran office indicated that they were not remotely interested. It was particularly frustrating as Jackie’s sessions for Modern had produced three stunning singles and one unissued track. Then there was a 45 and at least one unreleased title for Specialty and two very good sides for the Paula label. We were getting closer to gathering enough material but needed some good fortune to fill a CD.

The first break came with Ace’s purchase of Music City following Ray Dobard’s death. As Jackie had indicated to me, among the tape boxes were two excellently sung proto-soul recordings of country standards. Secondly a little more research into the Specialty tapes revealed not one but two similar and equally fine unissued titles. Then, on another tape, I discovered ‘Get To Steppin’’, a fabulous unreleased on-the-fours dancer from Jackie’s Modern sessions that I’d previously overlooked. As a DJ at the longest-ever running Northern Soul all-nighter, I should have been hammering it on the decks for the past decade to the audience’s undoubted delight. With eight Modern tracks, two Music City titles, four Specialty plus two easily-licensable Paula sides, it was just the pesky Cochrans holding back a potentially great CD.

Eventually, via one of our US friends and super-sleuths, who looked at the family records, we managed to get a couple of contact numbers. Lo and behold, one call didn’t get a disconnected line, an answering machine, or an operator telling us that our call could not be put through because we had no caller ID, but a real person who was a close member of the Cochran family, and asking how she could help us?

The full story is in the liner notes. Noted LA musicologist Jim Dawson who has written Jackie’s story, me and a cast of hundreds have put together a glorious package on a terrific soul singer that we think everyone will dig the most.

By Ady Croasdell

1. Before It's Too Late

2. Without A Love

3. Oh, What Heartaches

4. If I'd Lose You

5. As Long As I Got My Baby

6. What Kind Of Man Are You

7. Get To Steppin'

8. I Dig It The Most

9. Guilty

10. I Can't Wait

11. Naughty Boy

12. I Want Your Love

13. Free At Last

14. What's The Cost

15. Step Aside

16. What Happened

17. Don't Fence Me In

18. You Are My Sunshine

19. Without A Love (Alternate; Take 1)

20. What Kind Of Man Are You (Alternate Vocal Take)

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Looks a cracking cd Chalky,as you say An essential buy.

wondered why Come on and try me on Tuff is not on though.

one of her best.

Kev

I can only assume they couldn't get the necessary rights? Maybe Ady if he reads this will give you the reason?

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Looks a cracking cd Chalky,as you say An essential buy.

wondered why Come on and try me on Tuff is not on though.

one of her best.

Kev

a) because it's a different Jackie Day and

b) because the Jackie Day on Tuff is a MAN! :D:rofl::wicked:

...not because we can't get the rights to Tuff (in fact we can and have used Tuff material on Kent CDs before...)

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a) because it's a different Jackie Day and

b) because the Jackie Day on Tuff is a MAN! :D:rofl::wicked:

...not because we can't get the rights to Tuff (in fact we can and have used Tuff material on Kent CDs before...)

Ah did wonder that,in fact when I have played that record out people have asked if

that was a man or women on the Tuff record.

thought she had a wide vocal range :D

still see that record for sale billed as soul legend Jackie Day.

thanks for clearing that up.

Kev

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sorted that, I can't even remember last time I listened to Jackie Day on Tuff and can't remember what it even sounds like. I've just dug out the Tuff CD and the male Jackie Day does sound a bit effeminate.

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What're you saying Chalky? That the "TUFF" Jackie Day has the voice of a woman, or that he's a bit cuddly?

1. (of a man or boy) displaying characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; not manly

2. lacking firmness or vigour

[from Latin eff"ž"min"žÂre to make into a woman, from f"ž"mina woman]

:-)

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Had a review copy of this maybe two weeks ago, and got to say it's the best thing Kent have put out (or at least that has found it's way to me from the editor) in a long time. It's been getting some heavy abuse in this househild :)

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Had a review copy of this maybe two weeks ago, and got to say it's the best thing Kent have put out (or at least that has found it's way to me from the editor) in a long time. It's been getting some heavy abuse in this househild :)

Where can we read your review, tried the links in your signature but get the message failed to open the page all the time.

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Scootering magazine Chalky. Not the issue hitting the newsagents next week, the one after - I think......

Must get round to removing those links!

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Scootering magazine Chalky. Not the issue hitting the newsagents next week, the one after - I think......

Must get round to removing those links!

Cheers Nik.

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