Cant Find Happiness - The Sounds Of Memphis Recordings

this memphis family group started out as a gospel unit, the brown sisters, and comprised barbara, and her sisters roberta, betty and maurice according to rob bowman. their fist disc was recorded by chips moman who persuaded them to try their hand at r & b in the studio rather than the church music they came to audition for him. big party is a plodding beat ballad that sold well enough locally to get into the top 100 r & b charts in 1964 when it was leased to stax from the one-off wil-mo label. you belong to her is a better song, and almost a barbara solo effort, so low key are the harmony singers, and so showed even more clearly how good a vocalist barbara brown was, even at that early stage of her career. possessing a deep, rich tone she was a first rate emotive stylist, full of gospel tricks and mannerisms.we cant really praise the series of 45s that barbara recorded either on her own or with her sisters highly enough. theyre up there with the very best like laura lees chess material, or mable johns stax sets. music to treasure.