Name: Heavy Soul: Old Town & Barry's Deep Down & Dirty Sides
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Album: Heavy Soul: Old Town & Barry's Deep Down & Dirty Sides
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Won't Give Up My Man - Thelma Jones
2)	I Got the Right - Lester Young
3)	Nobody Knows - The Flambeaus
4)	Sugar - Bobby & Betty Lou
5)	She's a Woman - Jesse Gee
6)	It Ain't Right - Roscoe & Barbara
7)	I Love My Baby - Lester Young
8)	Heartbreak Avenue - Bobby Long/The Dealers
9)	I'll Be Standing By - Bobby Long/The Dealers
10)	Crazy Little Girl - Donald Height
11)	I Wonder Why - Tommy Andre
12)	Marie - John Standberry, Jr.
13)	Just Loving You - Irene Reid
14)	Gotta Find a Way - Thelma Jones
15)	Making Love to My Mind - Peggy Scott
16)	Tribute to Sam, A - Donald Height
17)	Stop - Lester Young
18)	I'm Sorry for You - Frank Howard/Commanders
19)	All Alone - Bobby Adams/The Serenaders
20)	Don't Mess with My Money - Jesse Gee
21)	Dirty Old Man - Irene Reid
22)	Never Leave Me - Thelma Jones
23)	I'll Never Forget You - Donald Height
24)	Fool in Love, A - Lester Young

Album: Heavy Soul: Old Town & Barry's Deep Down & Dirty Sides
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Won't Give Up My Man - Thelma Jones
2)	I Got the Right - Lester Young
3)	Nobody Knows - The Flambeaus
4)	Sugar - Bobby & Betty Lou
5)	She's a Woman - Jesse Gee
6)	It Ain't Right - Roscoe & Barbara
7)	I Love My Baby - Lester Young
8)	Heartbreak Avenue - Bobby Long/The Dealers
9)	I'll Be Standing By - Bobby Long/The Dealers
10)	Crazy Little Girl - Donald Height
11)	I Wonder Why - Tommy Andre
12)	Marie - John Standberry, Jr.
13)	Just Loving You - Irene Reid
14)	Gotta Find a Way - Thelma Jones
15)	Making Love to My Mind - Peggy Scott
16)	Tribute to Sam, A - Donald Height
17)	Stop - Lester Young
18)	I'm Sorry for You - Frank Howard/Commanders
19)	All Alone - Bobby Adams/The Serenaders
20)	Don't Mess with My Money - Jesse Gee
21)	Dirty Old Man - Irene Reid
22)	Never Leave Me - Thelma Jones
23)	I'll Never Forget You - Donald Height
24)	Fool in Love, A - Lester Young

Performer Notes

Performers include: Bobby Adams, Tommy Andre, Lester Young, Bobby & Betty Lou, Jesse Gee, Irene Reid, Frank Howard & The Commanders, Peggy Scott, Thelma Jones.
Liner Note Author: John Ridley.
Run by brothers Hy Weiss and Sam Weiss, New York City's Old Town Records label and its subsidiary imprint Barry Records specialized in deep soul and R&B sounds during their run in the 1950s and '60s. While they were based on the East Coast, Old Town's best material was very much in the vein of Southern soul, and Heavy Soul: Old Town & Barry's Deep Down & Dirty Sides collects two dozen of the stronger recordings they released between 1962 and 1969. The Weiss brothers were not above lifting arrangement and production styles from other popular artists of the day, and "Sugar" by Bobby & Betty Lou sounds like a lost classic from Stax's glory days, while Lester Young (no relation to "Pres") is a dead ringer for Otis Redding on a couple of cuts, both in his performance and the work of his backing band. But what these tunes might sometimes lack in originality, they more than make up for in pure passion, and Bobby Long's driving "Heartbreak Avenue," the anguished "Nobody Knows" (Bobby Byrd recording undercover as "the Flambeaus"), John Standberry, Jr.'s slinky "Marie," and the wild and funky "Dirty Old Man" from Irene Reid are superb examples of '60s soul obscurities that deserve wider circulation. While a few cuts sound as if they were rescued from old vinyl pressings, for the most part the remastering on this set sounds quite good, and John Ridley's liner notes are informative and well researched. If you're looking for hits, they're in short supply on Heavy Soul: Old Town & Barry's Deep Down & Dirty Sides, but fans of classic soul will find plenty to savor here. ~ Mark Deming