Martha Bass had sung for a short time with the Clara Ward Singers, one of the most important and influential of gospel groups:įontella had been trained by her mother, but she got her start in secular music rather than the gospel music her mother stuck to. Her mother, Martha Bass, was a great gospel singer, who had been trained by Willie Mae Ford Smith, who was often considered the greatest female gospel singer of the twentieth century but who chose only to perform live and on the radio rather than make records.
So we’re going to have a Patreon bonus episode on one of the great soul-pop records of the mid 1960s - “Rescue Me” by Fontella Bass:įontella Bass was actually a second-generation singer. Today we’re going to look at a record which I actually originally intended to do a full episode on, but by an artist about whom there simply isn’t enough information out there to pull together a full episode - though some of this information will show up in other contexts in future episodes. If you like the sound of these episodes, then go to /andrewhickey and subscribe for as little as a dollar a month or ten dollars a year to get access to all those bonus episodes, plus new ones as they appear.
#BENNY WATTS ARCHIVE#
These are short, ten- to twenty-minute bonus podcasts which get posted to Patreon for my paying backers every time I post a new main episode - there are well over a hundred of these in the archive now. Every day this week, I’ll be posting old Patreon bonus episodes of the podcast which will have this short intro. This episode is part of Pledge Week 2022. Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on July 15, 2022
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