Release 2017
Songwriter & Singer between Soul & Jazz.,wrote for Mahalia Jackson.
Nina Simone, Nashville Teens, Georgie Fame, Mark Leeman 5, Boots &
many more recorded his songs.
After his Columbia recordings (presented here), he got signed to Atlantic in
the mid 60s.

Style: Jazz ; Soul ;

Musicians:
Oscar Brown jr. - vocals, lyrics, songwriting;
Bernhard Purdie; Richard Tee; Cissie Houston;

DISC 1 :
Work Song   (O.Brown Jr.-Nat Adderley)  1961
But I was cool  (Brown jr.) 1961
It ain't necessarily so   (I.&G.Gershwin-Bose-Heyward)  1962
Hymn to Friday
Somebody buy me a Drink
Where or when
Brown Baby
Hey There
Hazel's Hips  (O.Brown jr.)  1962
Forbidden Fruit
Humdrum Blues  (Brown jr.)  1961
When Malindy sings  (Brown Jr.-Paul Lawrence Dunbar) 1962
Love is like a new born Child
Please send me Someone to Love
God bless the Child
Mood Indigo
Excuse me for living  (Brown Jr.)  1962
Oportunity please knock  (Brown jr.)   1962

DISC 2 :
Mr. Kicks  (O.Brown Jr)  1962
Afro Blue  (Mongo Santamaria-O.Brown jr.) 1961
Bid Em In
Signifying Monkey  (Brown jr.)  1961
Straighten up & fly right  (Nate Cole-Irving Mills)  1962
Watermelon Man  (O.Brown jr.)  1961
Sixteen Tons  (Merle Travis)  1962
Dat Dere  (O.Brown jr.-Bobby Timmons)  1961
Sleepy
Nobody knows you when youre down and out
Elegy (Plain black Boy)  (Brown Jr.-G.Brooks)  1962
Go down Moses
Sams Life
World full of Grey
Lucky Guy
One for my Baby  (Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen)  1962
Rags and old Iron
Work Song  (2nd alternate version)  (Brown Jr.-N.Adderley)  1962