Concerto Tell Mama al Rex Cafè di Firenze. Riprese Katia Ceccherini, fotografia Cristina ki Casini. Marzo 2009. Alessia Alessandri, Marco Superti, Andrea Celli, Riccardo Innocenti.

"You have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music, believe me. It's a new dawn!"

primo video dei Tell Mama su "you tube" solo grazie a Marcello Dubla, che ha fatto le riprese, il medley, etc... e a VeroRock che ha pensato a pubblicarlo in rete!

un solo refuso: alla batteria quella sera c'era il nostro amico massimo conti, che salutiamo!

GRAZIE!!!!!!!

Tell Mama is a 1968 album by Etta James, and the eighth LP release for the blues singer. Released through Chess Records, the album marked the continued deviation by James from her early mainstream R&B recordings toward traditional blues and soul. The album was recorded over several sessions in the famous FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
producing over two dozen tracks, of which twelve were selected for the
album. The album marked an upsurge in James' career. The title track
became her most successful single, reaching #23 on the Pop Singles chart. Though its B-side, "I'd Rather Go Blind", was never serviced to radio, it became one of James' signature songs.

The record was reissued on CD in 1990 through Chess Records. All of the recordings from the Tell Mama sessions at Muscle Shoals were released in 2001. That version included the hit non-album tracks "I Got You Babe" and "Almost Persuaded"

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Janis' "Tell Mama" version (Calgary '70 - live)

Alright!!!
Alright!!!
I'm ready, man!
Whoaa yeah!!!

You thought you had found
yourself a good girl,
One who would love you and
give you the world.
Then you find, babe, that
you've been misused,
Come to me, honey, I'll
do what you choose.

I want you to
Well, tell mama
All about it.
Well, tell mama
What you need
Tell your mama, babe,
What you want.
Tell your mama, babe.

What you need
What you want.
What you need
What you want
Whoa! an' I'll make
everything alright.

That girl you didn't
have no sense, babe,
Wasn't worth all the
time that you spent.
That same man he throwed you outdoors,
I just heard that he
quartered your clothes, hey!

Well, tell mama
All about it.
Tell mama
What you need.
Tell your mama, babe,
What you want
Tell your mama, babe.

What you need
What you want
What you need
What you want,
Whoaaa! an' I'll make
everything alright, babe.

Whoaa... rock & roll!

... baby,
Wasn't worth all the
time that you spent.
And that same man that
throwed you outdoors,
I just heard that he torn
all your clothes, hey.

Well, tell mama
All about it
Tell mama
What you need
Tell your mama, babe
What you want
Tell your mama, babe

What you need
What you want
What you need
What you want
Anything I can do
Anything I can do for you.

Tell your mama, babe!
Your mama, babe!
Your mama, babe!
Your mama, babe!
Hey your mama, babe!
Tell your mama, babe!
Tell your mama, babe!
Tell your mama, babe!

Hey!

Every time you get
lonely, lonely, lonely,
Every time you get lonely sometime.
Every time you get
lonely, lonely, lonely,
Every time you get lonely sometime.

Every time you got to cry, cry,
Every time you gotta cry.
Every time you got to cry, cry, cry,
Every day, Lord.

And I'd figured
I'll tell you, when you
go lonely, an' I figure
everybody does, right ?
Because as a matter of
fact everybody does.
I figure if you're a woman
Man if you're really a woman
You already know what you need, man.
You already know what
you're looking for,
Man, i found out out at
fourteen years old
And I been lookin' for it
every since, too, man.

But, if you happen to be a young cat,
You know like about seventeen
years old, just about
If you happen to be a
young cat and you ain't
figured it out yet,
I'll tell you what you need, baby,
When you got those strange
thoughts in your head
You got those strange
little weirdenesses
happening to you, you
don't know what they are
I'll tell ya what you need —

You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe,
Honey, sweet talkin' mama, babe.
You need a sweet lovin' mama, babe.
Honey, sweet talkin' mama, babe.

You need someone to listen to you,
Someone to want you,
Someone to hold you
Someone to need you
Someone to use you
Someone to want you
Someone to need you
Someone to hold you
Someone to want you
Someone to hold you

You need a mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, baby
Lordy, mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, mama.
Mama, mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, mama,
mama, yeah!
Mama, mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, yeah!
Mama, mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, mama, yeah!

Tell mama all about it
Tell mama all about it
What you need, what you want
What you need, what you want
Anything I can do
Anything I can do
Tell your mama, babe

Yeah your mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whoa mama babe!
Whaa mama babe!

Yeah
An' I'll make
everything alright,
yeah!
Hey! Yeah!

"THE BLUES IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD" ETTA JAMES

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FROM:

http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/etta-james

Etta James

",
Atlantic Records’ legendary producer, describes Etta James as “the
greatest of all modern blues singers...the undisputed Earth Mother.”

Her raw, unharnessed vocals and hot-blooded eroticism has made
disciples of singers ranging from to .
James’ pioneering 1950s hits - “The Wallflower” and “Good Rockin’
Daddy” - assure her place in the early history of rock and roll
alongside , and . In the Sixties, as a soulful singer of pop and blues diva compared with the likes of and , James truly found her musical direction and made a lasting mark.

James was born Jamesette Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938. Though brought
up in the church, she was drawn to rhythm & blues and rock and
roll, and by her midteens had formed a vocal trio that worked up an
answer song to Hank Ballard’s “Work With Me Annie” entitled “Roll With
Me Henry.” The trio caught the attention of bandleader ,
who recorded “Roll With Me Henry,” which was retitled “The Wallflower”
and topped the R&B chart for four weeks in 1955. James toured the
R&B circuit with Otis and other artists and recorded for Modern
Records until 1958.

It was at the Chicago-based Chess label (where she recorded for Chess
and its Argo and Cadet subsidiaries) that she molded her identity as a
singer of both modern blues and pop-R&B ballads. She was signed by in 1960 and had her talent nurtured by producer and mentor Harvey Fuqua (of ).
James crossed over to the pop market as an interpreter of soulful,
jazz-tinged ballads such as “All I Could Do Was Cry,” “My Dearest
Darling,” “Trust in Me” and “Don’t Cry, Baby,” which she sang without
sacrificing her bluesy and churchy vocal mannerisms. In 1968, she
adapted a grittier Southern-soul edge, cutting “Tell Mama” and “I’d
Rather Go Blind,” which remain among the most incendiary vocal
performances of the era. All totaled, James launched thirty singles
onto the R&B singles chart and placed a respectable nine of them in
the pop Top Forty as well.

For much of her career James battled heroin addiction, which has added
to her aura as a survivor. A cleaned-up James made a successful
comeback in the Seventies, re-signing with Chess in 1973 and opening
for in 1978. In 1984, she sang “When the Saints Go Marching In” at the
opening of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. James has subsequently
remained active on the touring and recording fronts, cutting the
Grammy-nominated albums Seven Year Itch and Stickin’ to My Guns and
reuniting with to record 1993’s The Right Time with the simpatico Southern-soul musicians at Muscle Shoals Recording Studios.”

TIMELINE

January 25, 1938: Etta James was born.

1955: Etta James hits #1 on the R&B chart with “The Wallflower” and
#6 on the R&B chart with “Good Rockin Daddy”. Both singles are
released on the Modern label.

1960: Etta James makes her Chess Records debut.

June 13, 1960: Etta James hits #2 on the R&B chart and #33 on the pop chart with the Modern single “All I Could Do Was Cry.”

December 5, 1960: Etta James hits #34 with the Modern single “My Dearest Darling.”

April 17, 1961: Etta James hits #30 with “Trust In Me”.

1961: Etta James hits #2 on the R&B chart with “At Last”, #4 on the
R&B chart and #30 (4/17) on the pop chart with “Trust In Me” and #6
on the R&B chart and #39 (9/04) on the pop chart with “Don’t Cry,
Baby”.

September 4, 1961: Etta James hits #39 with “Don’t Cry Baby”.

April 14, 1962: Etta James hits #4 on the R&B chart and #39 on the pop chart with “Something’s Got A Hold On Me”.

September 15, 1962: Etta James hits #34 with “Stop the Wedding”.

September 1, 1974: stages a music festival in Zaire, Africa, with boxing promoter Don King. The event attracts 120,000 people and offers , B.B. King, Etta James, Bill Withers, the Spinners and others.

January 12, 1993: Etta James is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

January 19, 1994: is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ninth annual induction dinner. Etta James is his presenter.

Grazie a Lions '68 che spesso ci scrive - e lusinga -, vorremmo segnalare, anche in questa sezione, l'uscita di un libro curato da Massimo Cotto (per saperne di piu' su di lui si legga l'intervista http://www.bielle.org/Interviste/CottoAsti_int.htm), gia' padre dello spettacolo "Cry Baby - L’ultima notte di Janis Joplin"- che abbiamo potuto apprezzare due anni fa a Pistoia Blues (http://www.musicalnews.com/articolo.php?codice=6498&sz=3).

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