Oh Please! The Complete Singles As & Bs 1951-1962 CD

Carmen Taylor
Oh Please! The Complete Singles As & Bs 1951-1962 CD

Carmen Taylor wrote hit songs for R&B giants The Clovers, Clyde McPhatter and The Cookies, and she recorded with some of the best musicians and arrangers of her era.
After her career as a rhythm and blues singer ended, she went on to enjoy an even more successful second career in the Latin music market as Elena Madera.
Despite making records for a decade and a half, very little is known about Carmen Taylor.
No photos of her from the 1950s are known to exist, and most people with whom she would have worked are no longer around to share their memories of her.
Fortunately music lasts longer than memories and Oh Please! brings together all the surviving masters that Carmen is known to have cut between 1950 and 1962, for the first time in one collection.
Although Carmen never scored a hit – and when you heard some of the recordings here you will wonder why that was so – but at her considerable best she could hold her own with any of her more successful contemporaries such as Atlantic Recrds label mates Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker.
A quality 27 track collection from a quality artist who deserved a far greater level of success than she achieved, and a must for all fans of great female rhythm and blues.