"Then I Woke Up" by Jimmie & Vella

Jimmie & Vella, 1972

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• soul

[SuperXavier30]

Too Beautiful for Words.Thank you.

[BeyondBodyAndSoul]

Anytime..

[thorshammer960]

Fantastic Track beautiful.Would love to own this album real shame it has never been released on CD.

Thanks for putting this up you've got great taste in music

[BeyondBodyAndSoul]

Thank you - I am glad you like it.

[blackrocknutt]

That Berry Gordy Motown comment is way off. and i'm being polite. Motown--watered down black music? pure BS. If Temptations, Gladys Knight, Four Tops, Marvin, Stevie are watered down then take me to the water. Multinational corporates bought up every R&B label in sight in 70s because R&B made money then the old fashioned way--producing masterpieces every WEEK on the cheap that folk loved w/o hype. R&B got less creative once synths replaced bands ca. 1977. Get it straight.

[GeneralTrousers]

No one goes to Church (where people learned to SING and PLAY music) AND music is NOT taught in schools in America ... this is a GENERAL problem ... most singers came out of Church or Formal Musical backgrounds ...

Music in general is not as good.

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[chillysardine]

I got to take a nature walk to this in the CHILLY COLD......silky tune for sure

[gilgamess]

I didn't know this existed! I have a single by them on Imperial that sounds nothing like this. I wonder what their version of "Nights In White Satin" sounds like?

[dividedsoulsent]

@blackrocknutt SO well Put....I'm tired of people that don't look at the whole scope of the pictures and make narrow ass comments.......MOTOWN,STAX,PHI­LLY SOUL,ETC= ALL GOOD!!!!!!

[balderrising1]

A Beautiful song... One for All mankind to consider.. It is time for All of us to come together.. In Good Consciousness,.. As One Voice and One Mind , of and for LOVE , to wipe away the darkness in this world

[mastertung7]

wowo now i see where they got the for your eyes only soundtrack from..right here

[caryllg]

just lovely x

[thisislogout]

I lost contact with Jimmie when he started getting royalty checks from his song "It's only love", which was recorded by Barry White. But when the British group Simply Red covered it, it was a hit! Jimmie told me he was going to Hawaii and I haven't heard from him since. I hope he and Vella are well and still writing beautiful songs like this. I would love to hear some current music from them.

[thisislogout]

I met Jimmie in the early 90's through a friend who was working as a security guard in the Wilshire district of Los Angeles. I met his sister, Vella, shortly afterward. Jimmie said that he and his sister were still doing music together, but as you know, the music "business" is now run by weird, powerful men with money signs in their eyes. They put out music I equate to "fast food". It's fast and it's crap!

[MrBlues2jazz]

@cybersalad Thats because when this was realeased it was sent to AM radio stations who did not broadcast in stereo

[kenneyut]

@thorshammer960

I owned this album many many many years ago, and I have no idea where it is now....it is really a nice album.......