This post contains two very short but sweet Kim Tolliver collections that were finally released on CD in 2008 and 2011, respectively. One contains all of the dynamite recordings that Tolliver made for Rojac and Tay-Ster
during the 1960s and 1980s. The second collection contains her fine album that was released for Chess in the 1970s: Come and Get Me I'm Ready.Kim Tolliver was born in Tennessee near Nashville in 1937, but grew up mostly in the Cleveland area, where she made her home. She cut a few records in Houston for Don Robey at Duke in the mid-1960s before being signed by Rojac records, where she was very skillfully produced by Jack Taylor. She was unfortunately only able to release a handful singles for Rojac in 1968-1969, which comprise the first precious tracks on the compilation shared here.
In 1980, Kim Tolliver fortunately had one last opportunity to record under the production of Jack Taylor for Tay-Ster records. The last three tracks of the collection here come from that session, including the very moving "Where Were You?"
Kim Tolliver had the misfortune of being struck down by Azheimer's disease in the 1990s, and died in 2007. Her legacy lives on.
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The Rojac and Tay-Ster Recordings
http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/85581581/file.html
Come and Get Me I'm Ready
http://www11.zippyshare.com/v/19442904/file.html
Hit paydirt again KC. Try To Do Better is deep, deep. She's yet another who should be much better known.. Also had an album out on Fantasy - Passing Clouds - that includes a monster version of My Whole World Ended.
Actually ceedee we must genuflect to Preslives for this post - just now getting ready to dig into this one myself, she is new to me. Thanks Pres!
Apologies Pres - tone deaf, mathematically challenged and now incapable of reading. Should have stayed in school instead of sneaking out to listen to Mavis...
No apologies needed. If you know your Kim Tolliver, you are already more literate than most. ;)
This looks great. Can't wait to hear it. Thanks Pres!
Cheers Pres. Her first record In Return For Your Love was cut in Houston as you say on the Duke subsidiary, Sureshot. I've never heard it never mind found a copy. In 1970 her last cut for Rojac, Driving Me To The Arms Of A Stranger, was written by Fred Briggs who she later married. He made a 24 carat soul masterpiece himself - Sound Off - that turned up in the UK on Goldmine's Deep Soul Inferno compilation. He produced her until they split in the early 80s. Would he have tolerated Party Lights? That's a bit unfair on producer Jack Taylor cos he also wrote the magnificent Where Were You which was labelled on the single as being by The Incredible Kim Toliver(!). Too true.
Ceedee - Thanks for that information. For your listening pleasure, here is "Return For You Love," quite a nice debut record: http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/90968231/file.html
Many thanks Pres, listening to it right now. The voice is all there, though the delivery's a little tentative ...until she cuts a bit looser in the run out. Love the out of tune horns too.
could you re up the The Rojac and Tay-Ster Recordings please please thank you
Any chance of a re-up for Come and Get Me I'm Ready? Links went down. Thanks in advance!
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