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Artist: James And Bobby Purify Title: I'm Your Puppet - The Complete BELL Recordings 1966-1969 Label:   Soulmusic Country: UK Date: 14 Jun 2019 Catalogue: CMCR 5185D Barcode: 5013929088535 Format: Double CD Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
James And Bobby Purify
1-01	James And Bobby Purify	I Wish You Didn't Have To Go	Dan Penn, Lindon Oldham	Rate
1-02	James And Bobby Purify	So Many Reasons	Marlin Greene, Dan Penn	Rate
1-03	James And Bobby Purify	Knock On Wood	Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd	Rate
1-04	James And Bobby Purify	I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)	Jerry Butler, Otis Redding	Rate
1-05	James And Bobby Purify	Hitch Hike	Marvin Gaye, Clarence Paul, William Stevenson	Rate
1-06	James And Bobby Purify	I've Got Everything I Need (I've Got You)	Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell	Rate
1-07	James And Bobby Purify	I'm Your Puppet	Linden Oldham, Dan Penn	Rate
1-08	James And Bobby Purify	You Left The Water Running	Dan Penn, Cesar Franck, Rich Hall	Rate
1-09	James And Bobby Purify	A Change Is Gonna Come	Sam Cooke	Rate
1-10	James And Bobby Purify	Blame Me (Don't Blame My Heart)	Steve Cropper, Alvertis Isbell	Rate
1-11	James And Bobby Purify	You Can't Keep A Good Man Down	Bob Montgomery, Don Schroeder	Rate
45 Only BELL Releases 1967-1969
1-12	James And Bobby Purify	Do Unto Me	Gary L. Illingworth, Morris Levy, Richard Grasso	Rate
1-13	James And Bobby Purify	Everybody Needs Somebody	Dave Crawford, Don Schroeder	Rate
1-14	James And Bobby Purify	I Can Remember	Gary L. Illingworth, Myrna Fox March, Richard Grasso	Rate
1-15	James And Bobby Purify	I Was Born To Lose Out	Moses Dillard, Don Schroeder	Rate
1-16	James And Bobby Purify	Help Yourself (To All Of My Lovin')	Scott English, Jerry Ross, Mark Barkan	Rate
1-17	James And Bobby Purify	Last Piece Of Love	Jesse Boyce, Gail Schroeder	Rate
1-18	James And Bobby Purify	Untie Me	Joe South	Rate
1-19	James And Bobby Purify	We're Finally Gonna Make It	Jesse Boyce, Don Schroeder	Rate
The Pure Sound Of The Purifys
2-01	James And Bobby Purify	I Take What I Want	Isaac Hayes, Teenie Hodges, David Porter	Rate
2-02	James And Bobby Purify	Hello There	Dan Penn	Rate
2-03	James And Bobby Purify	Sixteen Tons	Merle Travis	Rate
2-04	James And Bobby Purify	I Don't Want To Have To Wait	Don Culver	Rate
2-05	James And Bobby Purify	When Something Is Wrong (With My Baby)	Isaac Hayes, David Porter	Rate
2-06	James And Bobby Purify	Let Love Come Between Us	Joe Sobotka, Johnny Wyker	Rate
2-07	James And Bobby Purify	Shake A Tail Feather	Otha Hayes, Zephire Williams, Verlie Rice	Rate
2-08	James And Bobby Purify	Soothe Me	Sam Cooke	Rate
2-09	James And Bobby Purify	Goodness Gracious	Don Schroeder, Spooner Oldham	Rate
2-10	James And Bobby Purify	I Love You (Most Of All)	Bob Withers	Rate
2-11	James And Bobby Purify	You Don't Love Me	Willie Cobbs	Rate
45 Only BELL Releases 1967-1969
2-12	James And Bobby Purify	I Don't Know What It Is You Got	Jessie Boyce, Don Schroeder	Rate
2-13	James And Bobby Purify	Section C	Richard Holler	Rate
Not Originally Issued From Above Sessions
2-14	James And Bobby Purify	Keep Pushin' Me	Otis Redding	Rate
2-15	James And Bobby Purify	Just Like Old Times	Spooner Oldham, Don Schroeder	Rate
2-16	James And Bobby Purify	My Adorable One	Irral Berger, Clara Thompson	Rate
2-17	James And Bobby Purify	The Weeper	Jesse Boyce, Moses Dillard, Don Schroeder	Rate
2-18	James And Bobby Purify	She Ain't Gonna Do Right	Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn	Rate
2-19	James And Bobby Purify	Somebody Cares	Harver Weisenfeld, Richie Cordell, Bo Gentry	Rate

Notes

Issued under license from Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
Marketed and distributed by Cherry Red Records Ltd.

Compiled, annotated and produced for reissue by Bob Fisher
Executive Producer John Reed
Special Thanks to Red Kelly - souldetective.com
John Lias "Spinning Around - History Of The Soul LP Vol 2 L-Z"

Disc 1 - Tracks 1-11 issued in The USA as a vinyl LP in 1967 on BELL 6003

Disc 2 - Tracks 1-11 issued in The USA as a vinyl LP in 1967 on BELL 6010
Disc 2 - Tracks 14-19 first issued on CD in 2002 on Sundazed SC 11096

20 page booklet with essay and track annotations.

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Comments and Reviews

PhilMH SUBS 25th Jun 2019		I'll be getting this ASAP, to render the Sundazed and Camden UK collections redundant; those two overlap, but still don't give the complete contents of the two original albums (which both came out on digital last year). This collection still has the incorrect writer credit to Bob Withers on "I Love You (Most Of All)", just as the original album did, because this is actually Sam Cooke's song, but it seems that Mr. Withers copyrighted a song of the same title in 1967 or 1968. Anyhow, J & B's version is better than Sam's, so I don't know how it got left off either of the previous collections.
RogerFoster 25th Jun 2019		Review This is a nifty collection from James Purify and his cousin Robert Lee Dickey (aka "Bobby Purify) that brings together all of their Bell Recordings in one place. The duo shot to fame at the end of 1966 with their US smash "I'm Your Puppet" (number 6 on Billboard's Hot 100) and had an impressive run of US hits over the next three years. A remake of "I'm Your Puppet", that was so close to the original that it can be difficult to tell them apart, was eventually to get to Number 12 in The UK in 1976. Although none of their '60s singles made it into the UK National Charts they did pick up quite a following in Britain and their three follow-ups to "I'm Your Puppet" got heavy airplay on offshore "Pirate Station" Radio London (check my list on 45Cat of records that made The Big L Top 10 without making the national charts for more details) and their version of The 5 Dutones "Shake A Tail Feather" is a perennial "Northern Soul" and "Party" spin. The 20 page booklet that comes with the CD chronicles the story of the duo and how they fitted in with other popular Soul duos of the day such as Mel & Tim, Eddie & Ernie etc. etc. etc. and also addresses the thorny issue of suggestions that they sounded too similar to Sam & Dave for comfort (seven of the thirty-eight tracks on this collection are Stax songs and that isn't including two Sam Cooke compositions that were also recorded by Stax artists!!). Although it would be easy to dismiss the duo as merely being a more "polished" version of Sam & Dave they were really much more than that; some tracks have a snappy (almost Motown) feel, others veer into "Country/Soul" and "Section C" (Disc 2, Track 13) comments on overcrowded ghettos. Incidentally, in the booklet we learn that "Bobby Purify" on "Section C" wasn't Robert Lee Dickey at all … it was a stand-in who went by the name of "Buddy Grubbs"!! 7 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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