Carolynn Porter [2023] - I Want You [Cannonball Records #CBLL043]

The next single release on Cannonball Records is a previously unreleased song by Carolynn Porter which appeared on a compilation we posted last year "Emandolynn Music Presents: Rare Soul, Vol. 3". The compilation included four songs from her, two sides from her only released single on Monica, a Chester, PA, based label owned by Manny Campbell, and this song, "I Want You" with another unreleased song "Which Way Is Utopia".

Porter never commercially recorded anything else and continued to gig until she settled into marriage/family life. There is another artist named Carolyn Porter who released just one single in 1970 on Nashville label SSS International which doesn't sound like the same singer as that single is country soul, but we can't be certain.

The song featured on the Cannonball single was recorded at Joe Tarsia's famed Sigma Sound Studios. The masters were retrieved from the original reel tapes now preserved at the University of Pennsylvania and includes vocal and instrumental versions of "I Want You". It's feel reminds us of Fran Jefferies 1968 outing "Gone Now" on Monument, a beat ballad favourite on the Northern Soul scene.

Cannoball's Alberto Zanini tells us that Carolynn Porter grew up around Manny Campbell and was a vocalist in his jazz band from 1966 to 1969 that included jazz legends John 'Papa' DeFrancesco (father of Joey DeFrancesco) and Grover Washington Jr.

The single is due out next month (Sep '23) and is available to pre-order now from Cannonball Records. 

Check out the link to the compilation above of you wish to listen to her only other known recordings.

Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.

Details

Rating:	8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Northern Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	7" Vinyl
Label:	Cannonball Records
Cat No:	CBLL043
Date:	TBC/09/2023
Key/BPM:	5A/112
Price:	£20

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