NY Night Train;s Daily Party Platter YouTube just kicked into gear this week! Visit the playlist every day to see what’s cookin’…

From the original 1958 vinyl 45 MISS LA-VELL (LaVelle White) “TEEN-AGE LOVE” on DUKE Records

So far this YouTube playlist has featured relatively new acquisitions, but this one is an old New York Night Train classic that I’ve turned so many times over the years that its downright embarrassing! But I can always count on this hot little pepper and its one of the few tracks I never get bored with. I planned on highlighting another track for today but when I turned this last night I felt in my gut that this one had to go up today!

And take a listen! That’s how you start a song! A strong fast blow right to the head! The screaming intro slides right in after only a couple of seconds and glides across rocky terrain for two minutes of pure bliss! The fluidity of her vocals melt across the top of the coarse rhythm like the perfect grilled cheese! Feel her power and hear that band go! It’s over so fast! A sonic whippit! Play it again!

If you haven’t seen thee fantastic LaVelle White play live, she’s still got it! Everything! Pipes, showmanship, style… the entire package. Its hard to imagine that such a dynamic contemporary entertainer was making records nearly six decades ago. Though born in Louisianna, she moved to Houston, TX and started singing in blues clubs in the 1940s. She made this, her first record on local/international entertainment don Don Robey’s legendary Duke Records – the most commercially successful black-owned record label of the 1950s and one of the most consistently solid imprints of all time. “Teen-Age Love” kicked off a small but mighty string of supreme and highly underestimated Miss LaVell Duke sides that are hands-down some of the finest raw rockin’ late rhythm and blues/early soul you’ll find anywhere – including NYNT favorites “Stop These Teardrops,” “Stolen Love,” and “Why Men Go Wild.”

Supreme and highly underestimated!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavelle_White
http://www.ponderosastomp.com/music_more/271/Lavelle+White