Manchester Soul Jukebox
One More chance
by Doris Troy
ATLANTIC AT. 4020 One More Chance / Please Little Angel This is a fairly hard to find song these days. It’s only listed upon one Doris Troy CD Compilation and only from the USA costing over £40. At the Brazennose Street Twisted Wheel in 1965 and 66 it was one of the most popular tracks from Doris Troy and was heavily played alongside her other three great Soul records: ‘I’ll Do Anything’, ‘Just One look’ and ‘What’cha Gonna Do About It’. On the black Atlantic vinyl label, it was owned by most of the Soul Mod ‘Wheel’ goers at that time. It has a great gospel feel and a horn section sounding like they’ve played with Otis Redding. Doris was born in New York (6th January 1937) she toured England frequently in the 1960s and liked the appreciative audiences and even lived in England for long periods in the 1970s. Her tracks were constant favourites at the main soul clubs in Manchester and London in the sixties and they were all played constantly throughout that decade. She wrote most of her own recordings and under her songwriter pseudonym ‘Payne’ and she also wrote for other artists, and sung backup with Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and Cissy Houston and with others at the Atlantic studios. She never obtained the chart success in the UK that she deserved and it did’nt help when The Hollies covered What'cha Gonna Do About It on their first album as well as having a big chart singles hit with their version of Just One Look. In 1970 she recorded for Apple with help from George Harrison and Billy Preston. She sang backup vocals for British rock groups, even Pink Floyd. In the eighties she starred in Mama I Want to Sing - a musical based on her life story. She died on the 16th February 2004. A GREAT Lady of Soul.
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