Cat. No. BCD 17302: MARGIE SINGLETON ~ PLEDGING MY LOVE. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17302. (IMPORT).

MARGIE SINGLETON, BORN MARGARET LOUIS EBEY IN COUSHATTA, LOUISIANA IN 1935. WHEN MARGARET WAS 11, THE FAMILY MOVED TO SHREVEPORT FORTY-FIVE MILES NORTH OF COUSHATTA. MARGIE (AS SHE WAS NOW KNOWN) DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN MUSIC WHICH WAS NOT SURPRISING AS MUSIC WAS SEMINOL IN THE EBEYS FAMILY. WHEN THE “LOUISIANA HAYRIDE” BEGAN IN 1948 MARGIE COULD BE FOUND THERE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT. DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE EBEY FAMILY HOME LIVED THE SINGLETONS, HOME OF THE FUTURE ENTREPRENEUR SHELBY SINGLETON. WHEN MARGIE WAS 13 AND SHELBY WAS 17, THEY SNUCK OFF AND GOT MARRIED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN LEWISBURG, ARKANSAS. MARGIE BECAME A REGULAR ON THE LOUISIANA HAYRIDE” AND IT WAS HERE THAT SHE MET BENNY BARNES WHO PLAYED A ROLE IN MARGIE LANDING A CONTRACT WITH STARDAY RECORDS. HER FIRST RELEASE ON STARDAY WAS “NOT WHAT HE’S GOT” (AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION) / “ONE STEP (NEARER TO YOU)”. OVER THE YEARS MARGIE TRIED HER HAND AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC INCLUDING A POP-LEANING, STRING BACKED VOCAL VERSION OF “TELSTAR” CALLED “MAGIC STAR” AS WELL AS HER VERSION OF “WALKIN’ BACK TO HAPPINESS”, A PERFECTLY UPBEAT POP NUMBER THAT WAS A NUMBER ONE HIT FOR HELEN SHAPIRO. MARGIE’S INVOLVEMENT WITH OTHER ARTIST’S RECORDINGS ALONG WITH HER SONGWRITING IS TOO COMPREHENSIVE TO DETAIL HERE, HOWEVER, A COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY CAN BE FOUND IN THE INNER NOTES. SUFFICE TO SAY THAT MARGIE SINGLETON PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE COUNTRY ARTISTS IN THE 1960s AND 1970s. EXCELLENT ****

TRACK LISTING: Chained To A Promise / Forget Me Not (remix) / Living In The Danger Zone / Her Image Keeps Getting In The Way / I Don’t Have To Look Pretty (To Stay Home And Cry) / I Knew I Would See Him Again / It’s Too Much / How Lonely She Must Be / There You Go / Sincerely My Friend / Poor Man’s Roses / Your Old Love Letters / Pledging My Love / I’ll Just Walk On By / I Don’t Want You This Way / No Thanks, I Just Had One (with Faron Young) / Magic Star (Telstar) / Walkin’ Back To Happiness / Don’t Be Good To Me / Another Woman’s Man, Another Man’s Woman (with Faron Young) / The Cypress Tree / Only Your Shadow Knows / Burnt Fingers / How Do You Celebrate Goodbye / Are You Ever Too Young? / She Will Break Your Heart / Voices Of Love / Destination Love / Toss A Pebble In The Water. BONUS TRACK: I Don’t Have To Look Pretty (To Stay Home And Cry) (single vocal).

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