Ruth Love

For the first time on CD, Rev-Ola is proud to present the best of Ruth Brown's and LaVern Baker's original mid-1950s recordings which became so successful and influential to the first wave of white pop and rock singers such as Georgia Gibbs and Patti Page.
Including Top 5 R&B smashes "Oh, What A Dream", "Jim Dandy", "Mambo Baby", "Bop Ting-A-Ling", "Wild, Wild Young Men", "Play It Fair", "As Long As I'm Movin'", "Tweedlee Dee" and "It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)"… together with minor classics like Ruth's sexy duet with Clyde McPhatter on the old country tune "I Gotta Have You". Wild, wild women indeed!

Before Ruth Brown became an R&B and rock legend in the '50s, she was a jazz, blues, and gospel stylist. She shows that aspect of her talent on The Songs of My Life, a fine set produced by guitarist Rodney Jones, who also did the arrangements and conducted the backing band. While she displays her timing, interpretive skills, and still-impressive delivery and enunciation throughout, Brown also demonstrates on her rendition of Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven" that she retains an interest in and awareness of contemporary songs that fit her style. Ruth Brown proves that it's not the song or the lyric but the singer who makes a tune work.