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