I have to admit that, prior to putting the albums together from this festival, I'd never heard of Lattisaw. But she had a fairly successful music career in the 1980s, with several Top 40 hits in the U.S. None of them were big hits, but she had a Top Five hit in Britain in 1980 with the song "Jump to the Beat." Oddly, that song isn't included here. It's possible though that parts of her set are missing. Perhaps the reason I'd never heard of her is that her career was cut short. She retired from soul music in 1990 to raise her family. She's only done occasional gospel music since.
Maybe the most surprising thing about her music career was just how young she was when she first got famous. She put out her first album in 1979 at the age of 12! Her big hit in Britain mentioned above came one year after that. By the time of this concert, she was still only about 15 years old.
If you want to know more about her, here's here Wikipedia page:
This isn't really my kind of music, but she certainly sounds musically talented and not just a teenage novelty. Note that three of the songs are classics from the 1960s: "Hey There Lonely Boy" (originally "Hey There Lonely Girl"), "Love on a Two-Way Street," and "Attack of the Name Game," which is a modified version of "The Name Game."
This album is 43 minutes long.
21 talk (Stacy Lattisaw)
22 Dynamite (Stacy Lattisaw)
23 Spotlight (Stacy Lattisaw)
24 Let Me Be Your Angel (Stacy Lattisaw)
25 talk (Stacy Lattisaw)
26 Hey There Lonely Boy [Hey There Lonely Girl] (Stacy Lattisaw)
27 Attack of the Name Game (Stacy Lattisaw)
28 talk (Stacy Lattisaw)
29 Don't Throw It All Away (Stacy Lattisaw)
30 Love on a Two-Way Street (Stacy Lattisaw)
31 Sneakin' Out (Stacy Lattisaw)
32 talk (Stacy Lattisaw)
The cover photo is from this exact concert.
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