Kent 359 - The Complete Jackie Day - Dig It the Most (2011) + Booklet - Rare Soul (FLAC)

One of the true legends with a voice to match of the soul/northern scene. Jackie’s first recordings were made for Music City, a label run by Ray Dobard, a stubborn entrepreneur who didn’t have much time for white music business operators as Kent/Ace. Ray was not helpful to kent when they tried to compile this CD and consequently her Music City tracks were unlikely to be licensable nor was her ‘Naughty Boy’ 45, which she cut for a company owned by Johnny Cochran (the father of the lawyer who got O.J. Simpson acquitted). A continued lack of response from the Cochran office indicated that they were not remotely interested. It was particularly frustrating as Jackie’s sessions for Modern had produced three stunning singles and one unissued track. Then there was a 45 and at least one unreleased title for Specialty and two very good sides for the Paula label. Kent were getting closer to gathering enough material but needed some good fortune to fill this  CD. The first break came with Ace’s purchase of Music City following Ray Dobard’s death. As Jackie had indicated to Kent, among the tape boxes were two excellently sung proto soul recordings of country standards. Secondly a little more research into the Specialty tapes revealed not one but two similar and equally fine unissued titles. Then, on another tape, they discovered ‘Get To Steppin’’, a fabulous unreleased on-the-fours northern dancer from Jackie’s Modern sessions thathad been previously overlooked. As a DJ at the longest ever running Northern Soul all-nighter, Ady Croasdell should have been hammering it on the decks for the past decade to the audience’s undoubted delight. With eight Modern tracks, two Music City titles, four Specialty plus two easily licensable Paula sides, it was just the pesky Cochrans holding back a potentially great CD. Eventually, via one of Ace,s US friends and super sleuths, who looked at the family records managed to get a couple of contact numbers. Lo and behold, one call didn’t get a disconnected line, an answering machine, or an operator telling the guys in london that their call could not be put through because they had no caller ID, but a real person who was a close member of the Cochran family, and asking how she could help us? The full story is in the liner notes. Noted LA musicologist Jim Dawson who has written Jackie’s story, Ady and a cast of hundreds have put together a glorious package on a terrific soul singer that they think everyone will dig the most....Wow ! can she belt out a tune!

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