Tommie Young - Shreveport Soulstress (2012) Backbeats ( Backbart 003) - Rare Soul (FLAC)

 Tommie Young was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She started singing in her fathers’ (Bishop T. L. Young) church, at the age of five years. Since an adolescent, she has worked and performed nationally in the Church of God in Christ. In the early Seventies, whilst singing in a Dallas nightclub, she was watched by Bobby Patterson, a producer and artist, who liked her voice, and signed her to his Soul Power (a subsidiary of the Jewel Record Company) label in 1972. Her first single was a cover of the O.V. Wright song 'That's How Strong My Love Is', which was accompanied by the Percy Sledge song 'Take Time To Know Her'. Bobby recorded the songs as instrumentals, sending them to Shreveport in Louisiana, where Tommie laid down the vocal sections to complete the recording in Bobby's studio's.
"That's How Strong My Love Is" didn't chart, but later became a Soul favourite 'Do You Still Feel the Same Way' (written by Bobby Patterson and his label co-owner, Jerry Strickland) was the follow up single. The next single, the Bobby Patterson penned 'She Don't Have to See You (To See Through You)' followed and became a minor chart hit. The song was big in the Southern States, and reached number 28 on the national R&B chart. An album called 'Do You Still Feel the Same Way' followed in 1973, it featured Dorothy Moore on background vocals. After which she released several further singles, including 'You Brought It All On Yourself', 'You Came Just In Time', 'Get Out Of My Life' and 'I'm Gonna See You Through'. There are several 45,s which were hugely popular  amongst Northern Soul fans featured on this great album. UK label Contempo issued two singles in 1972 / 3 (including 'She Don't Have To See You' b/w 'That's All A Part Of Loving Him'), plus two of the same sides on their 1975 album 'Soul Deep Volume 1'. The songs were unenthusiastically promoted, and one final 45 was released in 1975, entitled, 'Get Out of My Life', after which Tommie returned to Dallas to sing in the church at which her father was pastor leaving the music business after 3 albums and a dozen 45,s.She worked with Stevie wonder and D J Rodgers in her day & sang at many public & political gatherings.What a loss to the soul world as her voice is dynamite as this great album shows!!...Many thanks to Ricticrelic for booklet!👌

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