Pearl Woods was around on the New York music scene in the late 50's & early 60's.

She helped Horace Ott get started on the NY R&B scene by encouraging him to travel into Manhattan to work on demo recordings. From there, he went on to work with the Shirelles (he arranged their hit "Tonight's The Night" in 1960), Chuck Jackson, Gladys K & the Pips, Hank Ballard, Jackie Wilson, Doris Troy, Nina Simone, Jive Five, Helena Ferguson ("Where Is The Party"), Sam Cooke, Aretha, Don Covay, Johnnie Taylor, right through to the Softones (& including many more along the way).

Anyway, back to Lillie Pearl Woods ....... She wrote songs herself, cut demos, set up sessions, etc, etc.

In 1960 / 1961 / 1962 she was even getting 45 releases herself .......

BUT ... what became of her after the early 60's, anyone know ??

Found a bit more on her myself ............

She was recording for Dot in the mid 50's, so that must be why she was such an established figure on the NY R&B scene by 1959.

She was still recording (a 45 on Mala) in 1965, but by 1966 she had been signed up by Duke / Peacock to head their Eastern Division Production & Promotion set-up (based in NY I assume).

Her songs were soon being cut by the likes of Bobby Bland, so seems Duke were getting their full moneys worth out of her.

Are her post 1962 outings as R&B'y as her early 60's stuff ?

This one (from 65) was still quite R&B'y ...........

All the info on her 45 releases is here ..............

https://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/pwoods.htm

Nice, thanks for the infos.

I love her "Right Now/Sippin Sorrow" 45. apparently 3 different releases,

DeadWax talked about this one on 45cat, seems there's 2 Dawn issues, anyone has some more infos regarding this ?

 

Quoting him here :

" Same songs on Dawn 100, but different composers and different publishers as well... "

" But, I've since found in my archives a picture of another Dawn 100 with exactly the same credits (composers and publisher) that the ones on Charge and also the same Columbia custom number. The original publisher Valencia is associated with tiny Chicago labels. I assume that the Seg-Way distributed Charge would be the second release of Sippin Sorrow (because of the ZTSC prefix on Charge) A Chicago recording for sure."

 

link to the site, please remove if inappropriate, 

https://www.45cat.com/record/nc707612us

According to the liner notes of "The Sue Records Story- The Sound Of Soul" (1994), Pearl was working with her

husband's ministry in Arlington, Texas. 

The Pearltone label (Freddy & Sounds of Soul) was her label wasn't it?

"Im Gonna Stick With You" her best by a country mile!

Pearl was the owner of the Pearltone label. Freddy was her husband Fred Johnson.

He co-wrote Maxine Browns' "All In My Mind" along with Leroy Kirkland and Maxine.