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Helene Smith

I Am Controlled By Your Love

    Teenage melancholy from the original Miami Sound Machine. Backed by the infamous FAMU Marching 100 Band and Frank Williams’ crack shot players The Rocketeers, I Am Controlled By Your Love compiles sides from Helene Smith’s ’60s tenure with the Deep City, Lloyd, Reid, and Blue Star labels. A sweltering album of 12 deeply soulful, alternate universe hits from the First Lady of Miami Soul!

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    1. I Am Controlled By Your Love
    2. Sure Thing
    3. True Love Don’t Grow On Trees
    4. Pain In My Heart
    5. Willing And Able
    6. Wrong Or Right He’s My Baby
    7. You Got To Do Your Share
    8. Thrills And Chills
    9. What’s In The Lovin’
    10. The Pot Can’t Talk About The Kettle
    11. Gossip Don’t Worry Me
    12. China Melody

    Helene Smith

    True Love Don't Grow On Trees / Sure Thing

      A Deep City Records release (one of five for Helene Smith) that originally came out in 1965 on the Miami-based label, ‘True Love Don't Grow On Trees’ is a gorgeous mid-tempo soulful heartbreaker, while the flipside and its wandering guitar line sounds like girl group buried treasure that would have sounded fantastic covered by Dusty Springfield. In the hands of Helene Smith, both tracks are nothing short of magnificent. These two tracks only previously appeared as a long-lost single that goes for £300 a pop these days. Acclaimed as the First Lady Of Miami Soul, Helene Smith came back into prominence with the issue of Numero’s 2006 ‘Eccentric Soul’ album of Deep City cuts.

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      Helene Smith - True Love Don’t Grow On Trees
      Helene Smith - Sure Thing


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