Varetta Dillard - Essential Varetta Dillard - Easy, Easy Baby - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rated by many pundits as the equal of singers like Dinah Washington, LaVern Baker, and Ruth Brown, Varetta Dillard was blessed with a powerful, versatile voice, and her recorded legacy remains seriously impressive. But the downside was that she was physically handicapped, which seriously compromised her career, most notably with regard to live performances. And although Varetta registered a trio of Top 10 R&B hits during the early 50s, she failed to achieve significant Pop success, and has largely remained a cult figure, little known outside of collectors' circles. Her recording career spanned eleven years, between 1951-62, during which she released thirty singles, across five different record labels, and also sang on a couple of other rarities. This 2-CD set comprises at least one side of each of those releases (in many cases, both sides) plus a dozen or so tracks which were not released the first time around. Album Tracks 1. Please Come Back to Me 2. Hurry Up 3. Easy, Easy Baby 4. A Letter in Blues 5. Here in My Heart 6. Them There Eyes 7. Double Crossing Daddy (With H-Bomb Ferguson) 8. Tortured Love (H-Bomb Ferguson, Featuring Varetta Dillard) 9. I Cried and Cried 10. Double Crossing Daddy 11. Three Lies 12. Mercy Mr Percy 13. I Love You 14. I Ain't Gonna Tell 15. Send Me Some Money 16. Love 17. Johnny Has Gone 18. You're the Answer to My Prayer (With the Roamers) 19. Promise Mr Thomas 20. I'll Never Forget You 21. I Can't Stop Now 22. Mama Don't Want (What Poppa Don't Want) 23. Darling, Listen to the Words of This Song (With the 4 Students) 24. I'm Gonna Tell My Daddy (With the 4 Students) 25. That Old Feeling (With the 4 Students) 26. See See Rider Blues 27. Got You on My Mind 28. I Miss You Jimmy 1. If You Want to Be My Baby 2. One More Time (With the Nitecaps) 3. Pray for Me Mother 4. Leave a H