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01. YOUNG JESSIE - I Smell a Rat
02. YOUNG JESSIE - Lonesome Desert
03. YOUNG JESSIE - Oochie Coochie
04. YOUNG JESSIE - Don't Happen No More
05. YOUNG JESSIE - Mary Lou (Modern)
06. YOUNG JESSIE - Lula Belle
07. YOUNG JESSIE - Hit, Git & Split
08. YOUNG JESSIE - Big Chief (King of Love)
09. YOUNG JESSIE - The Wrong Door
10. YOUNG JESSIE - Teacher Gimme Back
11. YOUNG JESSIE - Brown Eyes (Come On Home)
12. YOUNG JESSIE - You Were Meant for Me
13. YOUNG JESSIE - Make Me Feel a Little Good
14. YOUNG JESSIE - Mary Lou (Mercury)
ARTIST
TITLE
Don't Happen No More
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
JMAN 068CD JMAN 068CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/8/2014

Young Jessie is one of the unheralded greats of the R&B, rock & roll and soul eras. Beginning his career as a young teenager in L.A. vocal group the Flairs (with schoolmate Richard Berry, later of "Louie Louie" infamy), he then signed on with Modern Records and cut several high-quality R&B sides through the mid-1950s. Never quite achieving the level of fame and fortune of some of his immediate peers, the closest Young Jessie got to a hit was 1956's "Mary Lou," which sold well regionally and was later on covered by the likes of Bob Seger and the Steve Miller Band. Meanwhile, Young Jessie busied himself recording demos with Leiber & Stoller for one of their regular artists, Elvis Presley. Flitting between labels at the end of the '50s and into the '60s, his own output remained consistently of a very high quality, and always in step with the changing times -- from doo-wop in his beginnings through blues, R&B, rock & roll and into soul. Throughout all of that, Young Jessie always considered himself a jazz singer first and foremost, and this influence underpins all of his vocal performances. Don't Happen No More is a retrospective collection of some of the finest moments of Young Jessie's career, between 1953 and 1963. Includes notes written by Liam Large based on new interviews with Obie Jessie.