Larry Williams - My Baby's Got Soul download song

One of the great underrated songs of the 50's. Don Dillard used to play this on WDON in Wheaton, MD, one of the many B sides he made into local hits in the DC area.

Chess LP-1457 was never released. Maybe a promo? There’s also no CD of his Chess records. Who knows more?

This song is so progressive for it's time. It has flute like a late 60's Van Morrison album, and he howls like Eric Burdo would years later.

Besises Ray Charles this is in the same vein as the great Bobby"Blu" Blands I'll Take Care Of You.

Well, I don't understand why this song was not a massive hit, I was stunned by the emotional power of this song the first time I heard it in a BLUES compilation of the Chess label.

yeah for sure, when i 1st heard it i thought it was from at least 5 or 6 years later than it turned out to be...1959, wow

The lip curling, hip swinging truth of this highly moral tale will ring down through the years, down through the ages..

A great rare song,too bad it's not a Hit & that's a shame.

I came across this 45 in a cutout bin in the early 60s and it sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before. Speciality Records supposedly dropped Williams because he has been caught dealing drugs, but I remember reading somewhere that he had blown out his vocal chords due to endless one-night-stands promoting his hits. And if you compare his voice on this single with his earlier voice on Speciality, you'll hear quite a difference -- much more "gravel" here but also much more soul.

Did Art Rupe at Specialty prevent Larry Williams records from being played on radio?.  He put out 4 great 45's on Chess.  This one should have been a hit.

Larry, of Short Fat Fannie and Bony Moronie fame, was ahead of his time. He could wail, which came into R&B vogue in the sixties (Wilson Pickett...the Wicked Pickett, Bobby Peterson, James Brown...ouwe!) Chess Records was releasing songs around this time that were recorded in other studios, such as the Miracles from Detroit. This may actually have been recorded by Specialty in L.A., but some of theirs were recorded in New Orleans too. Kinda like how cars are made and labeled now.