Clyde McPhatter - Spotlight on Clyde McPhatter: The Voice of R&B

Clyde McPhatter fronted Federal Records super-group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, his career at Atlantic Records began when he helped form The Drifters and he then gained international solo fame while signed to the label.

The album explores key performances for MGM and Mercury Records. McPhatter was blessed with a distinctive high tenor vocal with heavy use of melisma and sang with gospel fervor and, every recording is embellished with finesse. His "crying tenor" vocal has been imitated but never bettered! McPhatter has several posthumous awards. He was inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist in 1987, and then as a founder member of The Drifters in 1988. The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor in 1993. As a member of Billy Ward and The Dominoes, he was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2006. His home state inducted him into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly.

    1 That's What You're Doing to Me
    2 Have Mercy Baby
    3 I'd Be Satisfied
    4 Such a Night
    5 Honey Love
    6 Bip Bam
    7 Hot Ziggity
    8 What 'Cha Gonna Do
    9 Rock and Cry
    10 Come What May
    11 A Lovers Question
    12 That's Enough for Me
    13 Lovey Dovey
    14 Twice As Nice
    15 Let the Boogie Woogie Roll
    16 Heartaches
    17 One Right After Another
    18 All About Love
    19 Ta Ta
    20 Who's Worried Now
    21 Honey Hush
    22 Take a Step
    23 I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
    24 What'd I Say
    25 (You've Got Everything) from a to Z
    26 Don't Let Go
    27 Pretty Girls Everywhere
    28 Lover Please
    29 Sixty Minute Man
    30 Happy Good Times
    31 Love Has Joined Us Together