Barbara & The Browns [1966] - I Don't Want To Have To Wait [Cadet #5544]

Staying with the classic oldies I thought I'd have a trawl through the Cadet catalogue picking out a few more gems. "I Don't Want To Have To Wait" is a killer deep soul ballad by Barbara & The Browns with their only release on the label after leaving Stax. They did, however, record another which was never released by the label "I'm Gonna Start A War" c/w "Can't Find No Happiness". The latter side was eventually released on Atco in 1968 under her own name Barbara Brown.

Barbara is Barbara Jean Brown and The Browns are her siblings Maurice, Roberta and Betty from Memphis. They were a gospel group who were persuaded to record two R&B songs in 1964 which were a one-off release on Wil Mo (probably a private press). It sold well enough to interest Stax who leased it and then released another single by them. 

The one-off Cadet release came next in 1968. For the next few years the releases were credited to Barbara Brown with the release on Atco of the unreleased Cadet recording and another on Tower. In 1971 another as Barbara & The Browns appeared on XL ("You Don't Love Me" which you will probably recognise as it was covered in 1994 by Dawn Penn as a reggae version titled "You Don't Love Me (No. No, No" which reached #3 on UK pop chart) and was later released on Sounds Of Memphis (an MGM subsidiary). Two further releases were issued on Sound Of Memphis as Barbara Brown. The first one being the marvellous  "Pity A Fool" in 1972 which has been played on the UK rare soul scene for decades.

A couple of excellent compilations are well worth checking out "Can't Find Happiness - The Sounds Of Memphis Recordings" (2007) and "Got To Be Somebody: The XL Sessions 1960s Memphis Gold" (2019) both released by Kent.