This Is Eleanore Mills
Sequel Records NEMCD 357

Anyone remember an LP from 1975 entitled ‘This Is All Platinum’ containing various artists such as Retta Young, The Moments, Larry Saunders, The Rimshots, and one Eleanore Mills, featuring a killer mid-tempo soul delight entitles ‘Stop Accusing Me’ . This is the same lady with a straight issue of her 1975 mega rare LP on US Astroscope.

The sleeve notes on the original vinyl album finds Moments singer Harry Ray making reference to Eleanore being an original member of the sixties group the DixieCups, which appears to be a mistake as they originated from New Orleans, and apparently always maintained their original line up?

The plot thickens even deeper when other Moments group member Al Goodman claims that he can’t even remember recording her back in the seventies!

Her dubut single from 1974 can be found as the opening track on this CD with ‘Fascinating Devastating Man’ a gentle yet appealing piece of New Jersey soul which really does grown on you with each play.

The album finds a collection of sweet soul and beat ballads of the highest order despite the albums poor sales in its day, all backed by the Rimshots who were the All Platinum house band of the day and can be found on all of the labels recordings. I particularly like ‘I’m Gonna Get You’ which finds Eleanore in fine voice on a song that could have come from the Honey Cone.

There are two bonus tracks on this set in the form of ‘Singin the Blues’ and the mid-tempo ‘Something Is On Your Mind’ . Included too is an American Radio Jingle used at the time to promote this album.

In 1977 Norman Connors used Eleanore on his Romantic Journey LP where she can be heard on the track ‘You Are Everything’ and a duet with Phillip Mitchell on ‘For You Anything’

This CD contains Eleanore’s complete output for All Platinum/Astroscope for the first time ever. I very much hope that soul fans don’t miss the opportunity this time round to add this gem to their collections.

Personal rating 8/10
Expect to pay around £10.00 in the UK
Released July 2000