Mickey Murray - People Are Together

TRACK LIST/AUDIO SAMPLES Side A Fat Gal Try A Little Harder Ace of Spades Ace of Spades Going Back to Alabama I Wanna See My Baby Money Side B People Are Together The Buzzard Explosive Population Fever I Found Out I Don't Know Why Throughout the sixties, Mickey Murray made a name for himself as a hard working entertainer viewed by many as a cross between James Brown and Otis Redding. He held a regular gig with Dyke and The Blazers on Broadway in NYC, toured with Wilson Pickett and The Staple Singers, and also performed sporadically with the queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. All of his hard work finally paid off (though not financially) when he recorded his first single, “Shout Bamalama” in late 1967. It sold a million copies!In 1969 Murray was signed to King Records. The label was preparing for the inevitable loss of James Brown. Since they obviously couldn’t afford to sign another act of Brown’s caliber, they decided to develop their own. Mickey was groomed by the lab