Artist: Carla Thomas
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
The Queen Alone
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
The Platinum Collection
Year: 2007
Tracks: 20
In the glorious tenner and a half of sound that was Stax in the '60s and early '70s, Carla Thomas was the Queen of Memphis Soul. She was born in Memphis in 1942, and 18 age later she recorded a duette with her forefather Rufus Thomas, giving the fledgeling Satellite label its get-go tasting of success with the regional strike "Movement I Love You." As her eighteenth birthday john Drew near, she cut her first gear mechanism solo undivided, the stripling ballad "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)." Written a few days sooner and spurned by Vee-Jay in Chicago, it gave Satellite its first national hit,
