UPGRADE from the old blog....The Jones Girls were, originally, from Detroit and were the daughters of the singer Mary Frazier Jones. They were Brenda,Shirley Valorie. They recorded seven studio albums and circa 40 45,s. on many labels. It was through their association with the Impressions, that the Girls met Curtis Mayfield who took them to his, Chicago based, Curtom label, where they recorded several sides. At this time the Girls recorded several sides that were never released. By 1978 they had sang background vocals for Aretha Franklin on the Curtis Mayfield produced outing 'Almighty Fire'. They later recorded with Linda Clifford on 'Runaway Love' before the tour that took them to a higher level with Diana Ross. The Jones Girls accompanied Diana on a marathon tour which took them to Philadelphia and to the attention of Kenny Gamble. They had also worked with Diana Ross in the studio, however, none of these sides have seen the light of day.At Philadelphia International, they provided background vocals for other artists at the label. These include Dexter Wansel, Lou Rawls and Jean Carn. Kenny Gamble recruited the Girls to his Philadelphia International label in 1979 and a series of excellent album releases followed. There they released four albums, 'The Jones Girls' in 1979, (including 'This Feeling's Killing Me', 'You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else' and 'Life Goes On'), 'At Peace With Woman' in 1980, (including 'Dance Turned Into A Romance', 'When I'm Gone' and 'Let's Celebrate'), 'Get As Much Love As You Can' in 1981, (including 'Nights Over Egypt' and 'Love Don't Ever Say Goodbye'), and 'Keep It Comin' in 1984, (including 'You Can't Have My Love' and 'Ah Ah Ah Ah', a collaboration with Keni Burke). Sadly Valorie & brenda have passed with shirly still doing back up singing. This was their third studio album. Five out of the seven fro P.I.R. This is the CD version, only ever european release in germany for some reason ?...I love these girls harmonies and will post up more by them. This is now a rare album to acquire when once easy.
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17 comments:
Brilliant group , nights over egypt is up there in my fave tracks .
Thank you for the review mate
Looking forward to listen to them ... Thanks for review, P.
Great Stuf, AMM. I love them. Shirly Jones did a solo album. One track on that album stuck on my mind ever since. I think the track was called Do you get enough love. Good choice. Thanks for the Review!
Thanks AMM for upgrade again. And more down the road by them would be fine.
Another great album... many thanks AMM.
BigD
Real nice vocals, I need to hear more. Thanks for the education AMM.
i have this too so i know you omitted some pages lol but thanks
thank you AMM for the upgrade
Thanks for this review AMM some nice vocals I can see why D ross used them for backing up Thanks for this AMM
Cheers Pedro
Thanks for the review AMM
You're breaking my heart has the classis PIR sound loving it
Looking forward to this.
A great sounding group, it would be nice to hear all the unheard music. Thank you AMM for letting us into these sounds that are sometimes overlooked. Thank AMM.
thanks for the upgrade AMM
Another one i've missed, don't know where the hell i was when you were posting these.
cheers,ELtel
Fantastic album!! Thank you AMM
I echo ELtel`s comment, great to have the chance to hear this now!
Cheers!
Bill
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