OH NO NOT MY BABY - UK Pye International USA Normar/Wand
ALL IN MY MIND - 1961
SINCE I FOUND YOU
I CRY ALONE
ONE IN A MILLION - USA WAND 1966
Something You Got - (Duet with Chuck Jackson)
Baby Take Me - (Duet with Chuck Jackson)
IF You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
(UK Freddie and The Dreamers had the UK hit)
All great tracks played at Manchester Allnighters - the lesser known ones got an airing at the Blue Note Club where DJ Dave Lomas bought every record he could by Maxine including his import copy on Wand of Maxine's One In A Million.
"Oh No Not My Baby" was written by Carol King for Maxine but became a bigger hit for Manfred Mann in the early 1960's. However, it was Maxine Brown that recorded it first and hers was played at Manchester soul clubs. Her Duets with Chuck Jackson are also rare items, e.g. - Something You Got on the UK Pye label 1967.
Torture"was not released in the 60s but in the mid 1980s. It certainly is a fabulous recording and quite rightly highly praised on the current Northern Soul Scene.
Yet another Former gospel singer, Maxine was from South Carolina (Kingstree) She sang in Gospel groups in new York.
1960 she signed with Normar for 'All in My Mind'
1961 'Funny'
1962 ABC-Paramount
1963 Wand - 'Oh No Not My Baby','It's Gonna Be Alright', 'Something You Got' (with Chuck Jackson) ,'Hold On I'm Coming', 'Daddy's Home' "Baby Take Me" (With Chuck Jackson). This track was covered in the UK by the Steam Packet (Rod Stewart) who used it in their live appearances at the Twisted Wheel Club.
The big star female vocalist on Wand was Dionne Warwick, consequently Maxine was always overshadowed in the areas of artist promotion.
1969 she signed with Commonwealth United - 'We'll Cry Together' and 'I Can't Get Along Without You'.
1971 Avco Records.
UK Releases:-
London HLU9286 1961 All In My Mind/ Harry, Let's Marry
HMV POP1102 1962 Am I Falling In Love/ Promise Me Anything
Stateside SS188 1963 Ask
Me/ Yesterday's Kisses
Pye 7N25272 1964 Oh No Not My Baby/ You Upset My Soul
Pye 7N25299 1965 It's Gonna Be Alright/ You Do Something To
Me
Pye 7N25317 1965 One Step At A Time/ Anything For A Laugh
Pye 7N25410 1967 I've Got A Lot Of Love Left In Me/ Hold On
Pye 7N254341967
Since I Found You/ Gotta Find A Way
UK artist Karol Keyes did (a fair) version of Maxine's 'One In A Million', and so did a group called Chapter Five.
