artist:Vicki Brown 12 notes
Vicki Brown, the Liverpool-born singer who graced groups like The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways throughout her career, passed away in 1991, but her legacy lives on through compilations like 2005's *Ode To Joy*.
May 18
Crying Game
Vicki Brown · 1987 Spin it Again - Vicki Brown had a voice that made every session musician in the room play like they were trying to prove something, and then she disappeared before anyone was paying attention.
 decade:1980s
May 16
The Shuttered Palace
Vicki Brown · 1994
 decade:1990s
May 16
Composition
Vicki Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 soul record so precisely composed and beautifully produced that you wonder how it disappeared almost entirely from conversation.
 decade:1990s
May 9
Soulville
Vicki Brown · 2019 Spin it Again - Decades of session work, and this is the record where she finally gets the room to herself.
 decade:2010s
May 7
Cutie Pie
Vicki Brown · 1985 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best voice in someone else's room, and they only let her make one record of her own.
 decade:1980s
May 7
Vicki Brown
Vicki Brown · 1987 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years making other people's records sound better, then made one of her own, and almost nobody noticed.
 genre:Pop
May 4
It's a Game
Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - Forty-one years old, one shot at a solo album, and she phrased every line like she'd been thinking about it since the session before.
 decade:1970s
May 1
Luxury Cohassan
Vicki Brown · 1979 Spin it Again - One of the best voices in British pop spent twenty years making everyone else sound good, then made this, and the world looked the other way.
 decade:1970s
May 1
Dreaming My Dreams
Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - Joe Brown's wife went to Munich and made a soul record that splits the difference between Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse, then died at 48 before anyone noticed.
 decade:1970s
Apr 24
Nightjar
Vicki Brown · 1977 Spin it Again - She sang on half of London's hit records in the seventies, and almost nobody knew her name until this.
 genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 24
Songbird
Vicki Brown · 1978 Spin it Again - She spent twenty years being the best thing on other people's records, then made one of her own, and nobody noticed.
 genre:Soft Rock
Apr 24
Quiet Life
Vicki Brown · 1982 Spin it Again - One of Britain's most in-demand session singers gets a Biddu production and forty minutes to herself — and sounds like she's been saving this up for years.
 genre:Singer-Songwriter

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