Soul Perfection

• First UK reissue in over 50 years
• Pressed on pink vinyl, this edition includes a printed inner sleeve featuring sleeve notes by Dean Rudland
• Highly prized with Northern and Deep Soul Collectors Worldwide.
• Featuring the very best of Allen Toussaint’s arrangements paired with one of Soul music’s most highly regarded rich and distinctive vocals
• Includes “Mean Man” as featured in the “GoodnessKNOWS” cereal bar campaign

BETTY HARRIS (born 1939, in Orlando, Florida) is an American Soul Singer with a reputation that far exceeds her commercial success of the 1960s. Her recordings for the Sansu record label are highly sought after by fans of both Northern and Deep Soul.

In 1964, Betty Harris switched record labels from Jubilee to Sansu, a New Orleans label, where she was introduced to and produced by the legendary New Orleans producer Allen Toussaint. Her recordings with Sansu produced 20 singles. Of those, only ”Nearer to You” charted (Billboard Hot 100 # 85), an atmospheric, dramatic soul ballad, now considered one of the milestones of deep soul. However, practically all of her recordings for Sansu featuring Allen Toussaint’s raw yet sophisticated Southern Soul arrangements are considered prime specimens of the classic soul era. Notable recordings include ”I’m Evil Tonight”; “Show It”; ”I Don’t Want To Hear It” and ”Twelve Red Roses”, favored among Northern Soul fans, plus ”Can’t Last Much Longer” and ”What’d I Do Wrong”.

In 1969 her Sansu recordings were compiled into a U.K. album—Soul Perfection—now highly prized around the world and reissued here in its original form for the first time.

SIDE A

Ride Your Pony
What A Sad Feeling
Bad Luck
I’m Gonna Git Ya
Show It
Can’t Last Much Longer
I Don’t Wanna Hear It
Sometime

SIDE B

Mean Man
Lonely Hearts
Hook Line ’N’ Sinker
What’d I Do Wrong
Trouble With My Lover
Nearer To You
I’m Evil Tonight
12 Red Roses