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Oscar Jr Toney
Loving You Too Long: The Contempo Sessions
Genres: Pop, R&B, Classic Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird) - Oscar Toney, Jr., Bacharach
2. Everybody's Needed - Oscar Toney, Jr., Toney, O. Jr.
3. The Thrill Is Gone - Oscar Toney, Jr., Benson, Arthur
4. Everything I Own - Oscar Toney, Jr., Gates, David [1]
5. My Girl - Oscar Toney, Jr., Robinson, Smokey
6. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Oscar Toney, Jr., Butler, Jerry [1]
7. Make It Easy on Yourself - Oscar Toney, Jr., Bacharach
8. Is It Because I'm Black - Oscar Toney, Jr., Johnson, S.
9. For Your Precious Love - Oscar Toney, Jr., Brooks
10. Kentucky Blackbird [45 Version] - Oscar Toney, Jr., Bacharach
11. Everything I Own [45 Version] - Oscar Toney, Jr., Gates, David [1]
12. Chicken Heads - Oscar Toney, Jr., Carter, Calvin

CD Details

All Artists: Oscar Jr Toney
Title: Loving You Too Long: The Contempo Sessions
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: SHOUT
Release Date: 11/26/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, R&B, Classic Rock
Styles: Soul, Southern Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929504028

Synopsis

Album Description

First time on CD for this extremely rare Soul album, originally released in the mid '70s, featuring bonus alternate mixes and a previously unreleased track. Oscar Toney Jr scored a major crossover R&B and Pop hit with his version of the classic Soul ballad 'For Your Precious Love' in 1967. He toured the UK frequently after his hit, and signed with Contempo in 1973 to record a notable LP of great Soul ballads. These tracks were described by reviewer Alan Lewis as "Possibly the best Deep-Soul recordings ever made in London" in Black Music magazine 1975. Shout. 2007.

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CD Reviews

Emotional ballads by a great singer

Christopher Enzi | San Francisco | 07/15/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album was recorded in London in 1971 for CONTEMPO Records, did hardly any business and disappeared. Oscar Toney went back to supporting himself with whatever "real job" he earned his keep with. He may not have been the most successful singer or the best educated (sometimes his words are mispronounced or idiomatically accented) but the man sings from his heart with great clarity of feeling.

Maybe you've never heard of Oscar Toney Jr. but you know some of these songs. I've never heard anyone sing them with more direct or deeper emotional involvement. These days, singers avoid expressions of emotion by limiting their output to a range of 2 or 3 notes. Oscar soars. You'll feel like your heart just got plugged into an electric outlet. Amazing!

Many thanks to SHOUT! Records for reissuing this 1971 classic LP on CD or I would never have been able to afford it.

Highly recommended!"