WILSON PICKETT/IT'S TOO LATE DL 2300 (-63) US MONO PROMO

One of the founders of the "American Soul" genre. As a member of "The Falcons", he helped bring gospel into the more lucrative secular market in the fifties, making way for other artists. This was his only album on L-Double label with title track '45 becoming a hit, high on the US R&B charts and the UK list. His composition "If You Need Me", first a hit with Solomon Burke and later considered a soul classic, wasn't a block buster in his own version but still good on this. Later he would write more classics for Stax records as "Land Of The 1000 Dancers" and "In The Midnight Hour", but this is still the beginning. I'm very fond of this debute since it's one of the first with an agenda that helped black music to a household breakthrough in the sixties. His style in singing and songwriting 1963 is the same that would bring many other arists - as Otis Redding, Percy Sledge and Arthur Conley - fame a few years later. Some of the backing may be -63, but the power and the songs sounds years later. In my opinion one of the first modern soul albums. I can not pick a favorite track from it. All are good songs with a very natural and direct sound and top audio. This is a white label "Audition Record" copy. I don't know exactly what that means, but guess it's a promo or maybe a test press. Also issued in stereo (SDL 8300). (YZÄ*) (ÖXCÅ*)(ÖRJ*)(PÖC*)