Rare R&B LP: A DATE WITH PATE - Johnny Pate. Stereo. FREE SHIPPING
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Description
Artist Biography
by Ed HoganArranger/producer Johnny Pate is an important figure in Chicago soul as well as pop/R&B music. Pate's name appears in the credits of classic hits by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions and acts on OKeh Records. He also arranged for numerous Chicago R&B labels of the '60s, including Nike Records (the Daylighters' "Cool Breeze," the Dolphins), Erman, as well as for New York-based Roulette Records (the Gifts' "It's Uncle Willie," "Treat Her Right," "Girl I Love You").
Born in Chicago Heights, IL, in 1923, Pate learned to play piano and tuba as a child. Later while serving in the Army, he picked up the bass and learned arranging. He had stints with Coleridge Davis and Stuff Smith in the '40s. During the '50s, he was the resident arranger for the in-house band of Club Delisa. Recording for Federal as the Johnny Pate Quintet, the bandleader/arranger/bassist had a hit with "Swinging Shepherd Blues," which hit number 17 R&B on Billboard's charts in spring 1958. In the early '60s, OKeh Records producer/A&R director Carl Davis (Walter Jackson, Major Lance, Ted Taylor, the Opals) wanted a unique sound and enlisted Pate to write arrangements for the label.
Tracklist
A1 A Date With Johnny Pate 2:15 A2 Lonesome Road 3:15 A3 Why Don't You Try 2:25 A4 Broadway 2:15 A5 Huff's Bluff 4:50 B1 Flamingo 2:48 B2 Have You Met Miss Jones 2:20 B3 Autumn Leaves 3:15 B4 Mean To Me 3:30 B5 They Can't Take That Away From Me 3:12Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – London House, Chicago
- Published By – Yvonne
- Published By – Paramount
- Published By – Master (26)
- Published By – Tempo (35)
- Published By – Chappell
- Published By – Ardmore
- Published By – Cromwell & Ahlert
- Published By – Gershwin
Notes
Stereo issue of King Records 611.price rating
