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AARON NEVILLE - MY TRUE STORY With MY TRUE STORY, one of the world's finest singers is revisiting the music he grew up with, and adding a few new spins along the way. Neville's first release for Blue Note Records is a collection of twelve classic doo-wop numbers, performed in his utterly inimitable vocal style, and co-produced by Blue Note President Don Was and Keith Richards. The selections on the album include classics by such vocal-group giants as Little Anthony and the Imperials ("Tears on My Pillow"), Hank Ballard and the Midnighters ("Work With Me, Annie"), and the Drifters ("Money Honey," "Under the Boardwalk," "This Magic Moment"). To Neville, though, these songs weren't just the soundtrack to his youth; they became the underpinning for all of the remarkable music he has created across five decades. "I attended the university of doo-wop-ology," he says. "Anything I do has got some doo-wop in it. It’s just part of me—it’s the texture that I’m singing in, it’s the endings, it's the harmonies. At 3 o’clock in the morning, I wake up with a doo-wop song going in my head and I can’t go back to sleep because I’m singing it over and over."Yet the recordings on MY TRUE STORY aren't simply imitations of the original sessions. For one thing, some of the songs included—like the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" or "Gypsy Woman" by the Impressions—come from a slightly later time period than the classic doo-wop era, and aren't usually classified as part of the genre. But Neville explains that for him, it's not the calendar that matters, it's the vocal approach.
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TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Money Honey (2:54)
2 My True Story (2:59)
3 Ruby Baby (2:31)
4 Gypsy Woman (3:29)
5 Ting a Ling (2:47)
6 Be My Baby (3:48)
7 Little Bitty Pretty One (2:43)
8 Tears on My Pillow (3:30)
9 Under the Boardwalk (2:53)
10 Work with Me Annie (3:05)
11 This Magic Moment/True Love (4:29)
12 Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams) (3:20)
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