Margie Alexander - Can I Be Your Main Thing (1971)

[1408alan]

Wonderful track from a golden era. Breathtakingly good.

[walterwaydanilo1]

yessssir!!!

[sicbrick]

Great track! Thanks a lot for uploading

[wally1435]

@sicbrick You are welcome.

[nialldcrowley]

Had the pleasure of interviewing Margie Alexander a few years ago for UK soul magazine In The Basement. What a treat! Lovely, modest and interesting woman and one of the best singers I've ever heard. I hope she's doing well.

[ddotc1]

wow.

[DVRBS]

Great track, she absolutely nails this.... I used to play this a lot when I was doing a soul & blues show on air near Philly 1997-2002..... if my memory is correct she also did a great job with Bobby Patterson's HOW DO YOU SPELL LOVE,

[wally1435]

@DVRBS Thanks for commenting/sharing your memories. NIce to see that some other tracks by her are showing up on You Tube & more people are learning about this underrated artist.

[mrgoldie54]

thanks wally 1435 for posting this...i used to call the radio station every night to request this song...thanks mellow joe back in the day....i love this song. I still have the 45!

[wally1435]

@mrgoldie54 You're welcome.

[Swaggletail]

Tell Aunt Margie that I still play her record. I was making my own charts out back then, and "Keep On Searching" was my # 1 song for two weeks! I first heard it on WYLD Am in New Orleans.

[willayyc92]

haha She's my aunt!

[Swaggletail]

@willayyc92

Tell Aunt Margie that I still play her record. I was making my own charts out back then, and "Keep On Searching" was my # 1 song for two weeks! I first heard it on WYLD Am in New Orleans.

[wally1435]

@willayyc92 Tell her about this video and that she's still loved and appreciated by lots of folks. Thanks for letting us know.

[Swaggletail]

I have a 45 of hers called "Keep on Searching." It was written by Clarence Carter also. It's on the Future Stars label. It was out in early 1975. I still have it.

[irie1tes]

Wow, yes you can

[calwaite]

If I knew how to upload a song to YT, I'd be happy to put "It's Worth A Whippin" up.

[drwhatson]

The mighty mighty Margie Alexander! - and If you think THIS is powerful stuff, just have a listen to "It's Worth A Whippin" and "What 'Cha Tryin' To Do To Me" on Chi-Sound...!

In my humble opinion, Margie Alexander was/is one of the best female Soul singers of her generation - bar none!

[lemontarsier]

Good luck-- I've loved her voice since I first heard this song on the Atlantic Soul Sisters CD in the mid- 1990s. Now, almost 16 years later, I've only ever found two other tracks by her, both on other compilation CDs. All three songs are AMAZING. What a shame she's so little known-- I too would love to hear more by her. I believe that at some point she stopped recording secular music and only sang gospel afterward.

[wally1435]

Thanks for the comments. I got this off the old Atlantic Soul Sisters cd that I bought way back then & is now out of print (but many of those songs were re-issued on the newer Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Sisters from 2006, however Margie was left off that one)

[calwaite]

lemon, send my your email address and I'll send you "It's Worth A Whippin" as an email attachment...great song. The flip ain't worth a shit.

[fannycraddock99]

Oh my, love this. So glad that I found your channel. Must track down more of this lady's work.