Track Listing

1. Reconsider Me
2. You Can Depend On Me
3. Kiss The Hurt Away
4. I Won't Cry
5. Proud Woman
6. The Tender Side Of Me
7. Release Me
8. Too Much Pride
9. Real Live Hurtin' Man
10. If I Could See You One More Time
11. I Can't Be All Bad
12. In A Moment Of Weakness
13. I Don't Worry Myself
14. You Made A New Man Out Of Me
15. Down By The River
16. Lonely Man
17. I Have No One
18. A Losing Battle

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78011 in Music
• Released on: 1996-08-27
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The Tan Canary - A "Big Easy" Icon
Considered by many to be the most important quality soul singer to hail from New Orleans, never did Johnny Adams give a bad performance - or even a mediocre one.

With just one exception [1978's After All The Good Is Gone - # 75 R&B for the Ariola America label], on this CD you get his other five charted hits as well as the flipsides for three of them.

Listening to him, you will hear a powerful, soulfully smooth voice that easily soars above the full orchestrations and choruses on classics like A Losing Battle [# 27 R&B in 1962 for the Ric label], Release Me [the old Country standard which he took to # 34 R&B/# 82 Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 b/w You Make A New Man Out Of Me], Reconsider Me [his top hit at # 8 R&B and # 28 Hot 100 in the summer of 1969 b/w If I Could See You One More Time], I Can't Be All Bad [# 45 R&B/# 89 Hot 100 late in 1969 b/w In A Moment Of Weakness] and I Won't Cry [# 41 R&B in 1970 - all recorded for SSS Int'l].

Highly recommended. And if you can find his Come On - recorded in 1960 for Ric - by all means get it. Although uncharted, it has to go down as one of his all-time best performances.

Sadly, Johnny passed away after battling cancer at the age of 66 on September 14, 1998.

MR JOHNNY ADAMS (THE TAN CANARRY) OF NEW ORLEANS
THE FIRST TIME I HEARD JOHNNY ADAMS SING I KNEW GOD GIVES JUST A FEW PEOPLE THE GIFT JOHNNY HAD.LIKE JOHNNY ACE OTIS REDDING LITTLE WILLE JOHN JACKIE WILSON MARVIN GAYE SMOKIE ROBERSON TO NAME A FEW.JOHNNY COULD CAPTIVATE HIS PEOPLE AT A NIGHT CLUB OR JAZZ FEST.IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT HEAVEN MUST HAVE ONE HELL OF A BAND.R I P JOHNNY WE MISS YOU.A FAN FROM NEWORLEANS DIAMONDHEAD DENNIS

RECONSIDER THIS BABY !
I just know Johnny Adams is up in "Soul Heaven", along with his fellow peers: Frankie Lymon, Roy Hamilton, Donnie Elbert, Ronnie Dyson, Johnnie Taylor, Billy Preston. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Where Did Our Love Go", "One Man Band", "God Is Standing By", "That's The Way God Planned It". God has one fabulous band up in "Soul Heaven" !!