Maxine Brown

Maxine Ella Brown (born August 18, 1939) is an American soul and R&B singer.
Maxine Brown began singing as a child, performing with two New York City based gospel groups called the Angelairs and the Royaltones when she was a teenager. In 1960, she signed with the small Nomar record label, who released the deep soul ballad "All in My Mind" (which was written by Brown) late in the year. The single became a hit, climbing to number two on the US Billboard R&B chart (number 19 pop), and it was quickly followed by "Funny", which peaked at number three on the R&B chart and #25 on the Hot 100
Brown was poised to become a star and moved to the bigger ABC-Paramount in 1962. She left the label after an unsuccessful year recording several non-chart singles for the label, and signed to the New York-based uptown soul label, Wand Records, a Scepter Records subsidiary, in 1963.
Brown recorded a string of sizable hits for Wand over the next three years. Among these were the Carole King/Gerry Goffin songs "Oh No Not My Baby", which reached number 24 on the pop chart in 1964, and "It's Gonna Be Alright", which peaked at No. 26 on the R&B chart the following year. She also recorded duets with label-mate Chuck Jackson, including a reworked version of an Alvin Robinson hit, "Something You Got", which climbed to No. 10 on the R&B chart. However, the company turned its focus to other bigger-selling acts, especially Dionne Warwick.
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==Links to Peel==
Maxine Brown was a typical booking in the early months of Top Gear, when each week included one or more sessions by soul artists. She collaborated with Lou Rawls for her session with him for Top Gear in 1967.
On her session she was backed by the Johnny Watson Concept, who, given Musicians' Union restrictions on US performers visiting Britain, may have been a British band led by the African-American singer John L. Watson, who became resident in Britain during the 1960s. They had also backed Chris Clark on her 1967 Top Gear session, broadcast a few weeks later. Watson later formed the jazz/blues band the Web, who recorded for Deram Records at the start of the 1970s and were praised in the music press, but never did a session for Peel.
==Sessions==
1. Recorded with Lou Rawls and the Johnny Watson Concept: 1967-10-03. First Broadcast: 08 October 1967
*Hold On I'm Coming / I Was Made To Love / Oh No Not My Baby / One Step At A Time / In The Midnight Hour
==Other Shows Played==
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*11 November 1985: It's Torture (v/a LP - Mystery...Terror...Suspense! It's Torture And 15 Other Great Soul Destroyers) Kent
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*08 July 1999: 'She's Got Everything (v/a Compilation CD-Where The Girls Are Vol. 2)' (Ace)
*22 July 1999 (Radio Eins): She's Got Everything (v/a CD - Where The Girls Are Vol. 2) Ace
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists