LaTasha Lee's latest offering released today digs up another dusty by
Roddie Joy (real name Rita Coleman aka Rita Fortune) from
1965.
The Mike Lewis and Earline Phillips written song is "He's So Easy To Love" that was tucked away on the B side to "The La La Song" on Leiber
& Stoller's Red Bird label.
Joy released three singles for the label before switching to Parkway in 1966 where she released another four before the label went bust in 1967. Nothing
was recorded afterwards (in that name) so perhaps she settled down and
had a family. However, Discogs states that she was also known as Rita
Fortune who released a disco single "Sisters And Brothers" (Columbia 1974),
which we're not sure sounds like her, but the connection with Mike
Lewis and Stuart Weiner (who produced all her Red Bird singles) are
there, so perhaps it is?
Joy's first single in 1965, "Come Back Baby" (also co-written by
Lewis with Ricki Lisi), has had exposure on the rare soul scene and
was covered the year after by The Stoppers on Jubilee along with a
cover of "The La La Song". It was their only release.
We posted a couple of albums by Lee earlier this year, "Compositions of LaTasha Lee & Salih Williams" consisting of material that she only appears to have released
via YouTube. The other was a reissue of her first album "LaTasha Lee & The Black Ties" in 2014. Both are no longer available as they seem to have been
withdrawn from digital platforms.
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| Rating: | 7.8 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | 60s Soul |
| Format: | Single |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Industry Music Group |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 16/05/2024 |
| Key/BPM: | 1B/103 |
| Price: | £1 |
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