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Women's Love Rights / I Can't Make It Alone / Two Sides of Laura Lee
Laura Lee
Women's Love Rights / I Can't Make It Alone / Two Sides of Laura Lee
Genres: Pop, R&B
 
  •  Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (15) - Disc #2

Digitally remastered two CD collection from the Soul vocalist containing a trio of albums (A Woman's Love Rights, I Can't Make It Alone and Two Sides Of Laura Lee) plus six bonus tracks. After five R&B hits on Chess, ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Laura Lee
Title: Women's Love Rights / I Can't Make It Alone / Two Sides of Laura Lee
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Label: Edsel Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 2/16/2010
Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered
Genres: Pop, R&B
Style: Soul
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 740155205034

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Digitally remastered two CD collection from the Soul vocalist containing a trio of albums (A Woman's Love Rights, I Can't Make It Alone and Two Sides Of Laura Lee) plus six bonus tracks. After five R&B hits on Chess, Laura Lee signed to the Hot Wax label in 1971. She charted five R&B and Pop hits on Hot Wax, including the #3 hit, 'Rip Off'. 31 tracks. Edsel. 2010.

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"...If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)..."
Mark Barry at Reckless Records, Lon | UK | 05/23/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This superb 2CD overview of US soul singer Laura Lee was released January 2010 in the UK (February 2010 in the USA) on Edsel EDSD 2050 and is part of a series of reissues Edsel are doing to extensively cover Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus and Hot Wax labels. It features her 3 albums for H-D-H in their entirety, rare single sides too and breaks down as follows...



Disc 1 (71:29 minutes):

Tracks 1 to 10 are her 1st album "Women's Love Rights", released November 1971 in the USA on Hot Wax HA 708

Tracks 11 to 16 are 6 of the 8 tracks from her 3rd album "I Can't Make It Alone", released 1974 in the USA on Invictus KZ 33133 (see Note below)

Track 17 is "Since I Fell For You", Mono Promo-Only Single Edit, 1974 on Hot Wax (no catalogue number)

Track 18 is "I Need It Just As Bad As You" (Unedited Version), originally on Deep Beats CD DEEPD 025



Disc 2 (55:07 minutes):

Tracks 1 to 10 are her 2nd album for the label "Two Sides Of Laura Lee", released 1972 on Hot Wax HA 714

Track 11 is "Crumbs Off The Table", USA 7" Single Re-Edit on Hot Wax HS 7210

Tracks 12 and 13 are the A&B sides of a 1973 USA 7" single on Hot Wax HS 7305 (both tracks are non-album)

Track 14 is "Since I Fell For You" (Mono Commercial Single Edit)



Note: Two tracks were duplicated on her 2nd and 3rd albums - they are "Every Little Bit Hurts" and "Crumbs Off The Table". Edsel have put them on Disc 2 in their proper sequence for the "Two Sides Of Laura Lee" album, however, if you want to sequence the 8 tracks of her 3rd album "I Can't Make It Alone" in proper order, then it runs as follows...

Side 1 is tracks 11 to 13 on Disc 1 + Track 3 on Disc 2

Side 2 is track 2 from Disc 2 + tracks 14 to 16 from Disc 1



Using the album cuts and the six bonus tracks across the 2CDs, you can now also sequence her US Hot Wax 7" singles output as follows...



1. "Wedlock Is A Padlock" b/w Her Picture Matches Mine", Hot Wax HS 7007, January 1971

2. "Women's Love Rights" b/w "Wedlock Is A Padlock", Hot Wax HS 7105, August 1971

3. "Love And Liberty" b/w "I Don't Want Nothing Old (But Money)", Hot Wax HS 7111, December 1971

4. "Since I Feel For You" b/w "I Don't Want Nothing Old (But Money)", Hot Wax HS 7201, February 1972

5. "Rip Off" b/w "Two Lovely Pillows", Hot Wax HS 7204, June 1972

6. "If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)" b/w "If I'm Good Enough To Love (I'm Good Enough To Marry)", Hot Wax HS 7207, October 1972

7. "Crumbs Off The Table" b/w "You've Got To Save Me", Hot Wax HS 7210, January 1973 [Note: A was originally a hit for The Glass House (another HDH act) in September 1969 on Invictus IS 9071]

8. "(If You Want To Try Love Again) Remember Me" b/w "If I'm Good Enough To Love (I'm Good Enough To Marry)", Hot Wax HS 7302, 1973

9. "I'll Catch You When You Fall" b/w "I Can't Hold Out Much Longer", Hot Wax HS 7305, 1973 [Note: both A&B are non-album tracks]



Remastered by PETER RYNSTON at TALL ORDER, the sound quality is great - alive and jumping out of your speakers. The 20-page booklet has very detailed liner notes by soul expert TONY ROUNCE who also provides photos of those rare 7" singles and LP labels - it's brilliantly informative and researched with both affection and care (his top class work features on most of Edsel's soul releases).



The music is upbeat floor-filling soul with a message of breaking free, standing up for yourself and street smarts. Track after track is great stuff. One of my all time favourites and a criminally forgotten gem is her declaration to other women about her loving prowess in the brilliantly funky single "If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)" - expect to see it in a movie any day now.



Costing less than six sterling pounds in the UK, this is a whole lot of great Seventies soul for not a whole lot of wedge (even as an import).



Superb - recommended."