Bruce Channel - This Is Bruce Channel '2022

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       Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby" — a classic one-shot, number-one hit
from 1962 — is one of the many records proving that, during a period in
which rock has sometimes been characterized as near death, the form was
continuing to evolve in unexpected and delightful ways. An irresistible
mid-tempo shuffle from the first few bars of homespun harmonica (played by
Delbert McClinton), it was a seemingly effortless blend of rock, blues, country,
and Cajun beats, featuring Channel's lazy, drawling vocals and an instantly
catchy tune. It was perhaps too much of a natural; Channel could never recapture
the organic spontaneity of the track, failing to re-enter the Top 40 despite
many attempts.

The Texan had written "Hey Baby" around 1959 with his friend Margaret Cobb, and
had already been performing the tune for a couple of years before recording it
amidst a series of demos for Fort Worth producer Major Bill Smith. First
released locally on Smith's label, it was picked up for national distribution by
Smash. Channel would continue to write most of his own material (sometimes in
collaboration with Cobb) for a series of moderately enjoyable follow-ups that
echoed the riffs of "Hey Baby" too closely.

McClinton played his immediately identifiable harmonica on several of these, and
made his own contribution to rock history in 1962, when he was touring as a
member of Channel's band in Britain. On one of their shows, they were supported
by a then-unknown Liverpool group, the Beatles, who had yet to cut their first
record. John Lennon was smitten by McClinton's style of playing, and picked up
some pointers that he put to use on the Beatles' very first single, "Love Me
Do"; in fact, McClinton's influence can be easily detected in Lennon's harmonica
playing on many early Beatles tracks from 1962 and 1963.

Channel did get another Top 20 hit in Britain in 1968, "Keep On," which was
written by Wayne Carson Thompson (famous for penning the Box Tops' "The
Letter"). Nothing else clicked in a big way on either side of the ocean, and by
the late '70s he was working in Nashville as a songwriter. ~ Richie Unterberger

Tracklist:
1.01 - Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby (2:17)
1.02 - Bruce Channel - Run Romance Run (1:58)
1.03 - Bruce Channel - Don't Leave Me (2:38)
1.04 - Bruce Channel - Slow Down Baby (2:02)
1.05 - Bruce Channel - Will I Ever Love Again (2:15)
1.06 - Bruce Channel - Breakin' up Is Hard to Do (2:12)
1.07 - Bruce Channel - Now or Never (1:55)
1.08 - Bruce Channel - Sorry Baby (2:01)
1.09 - Bruce Channel - Chantilly Lace (1:53)
1.10 - Bruce Channel - Baby It's You (2:13)
1.11 - Bruce Channel - Somewhere in This Town (2:24)
1.12 - Bruce Channel - Boy! This Stuff Kills Me (1:52)
1.13 - Bruce Channel - Since I Met You Baby (2:39)
1.14 - Bruce Channel - Dream Baby (2:11)
1.15 - Bruce Channel - If Only I Had Known (1:59)
1.16 - Bruce Channel - Dream Girl (2:29)
1.17 - Bruce Channel - Love Me (2:11)
1.18 - Bruce Channel - Hully Gully (2:22)
1.19 - Bruce Channel - Ain't Got No Home (2:45)
1.20 - Bruce Channel - Number One Man (2:15)
1.21 - Bruce Channel - Baby You've Got What It Takes (2:12)
1.22 - Bruce Channel - Stand Tough (2:02)
1.23 - Bruce Channel - Let's Hurt Together (2:39)
1.24 - Bruce Channel - Come on Baby (2:15)
1.25 - Bruce Channel - Mine Exclusively (2:10)
1.26 - Bruce Channel - Oh! Baby (2:00)
1.27 - Bruce Channel - Cherry Wine (1:52)
1.28 - Bruce Channel - Night People (1:51)
1.29 - Bruce Channel - No Other Baby (1:59)
1.30 - The Two Smith Brothers - Let Your Mind Roll On (2:03) 

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