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Cookie Jackson The Zeke Strong Band - Do You Still Love Me [2:00] [Written: Cliff Chambers] c/w Blind Love [2:24] [Written: Charles Lawrence Wilkins, Cliff Chambers] [USA Progress Records 912] Feb 1963 Arranged: Producer: James Anthony Carmichael, Zeke Strong] Progress [L.A., 1960s] Could someone help me out with some info on this track regarding the difference between the gold and orange label please. I've had em both and agree that the orange one seems to be rarer. However I decide to keep the gold version because I thought the fidelity was higher. I lived in L.A. from 1966-72. I've seen hundreds of the gold and only a much smaller amount of the orange [a ratio of about 5 to 1]. I don't really know which came first, but I didn't see the orange until a year or 2 after having seen the gold. I got the impression that the orange was a 2nd pressing, rather than a concurrent pressing plant difference [perhaps one or 2 years later]. Cookie Jackson Lorraine "Cookie" Jackson was one of those West Coast R&B singers that I love so much. Her big brassy vocals which featured such a lovely gritty tone really hit the right spot and she nver made a poor record. She started out in the early 60s working with saxophonist Zeke Strong whose band was one of the tightest in Los Angeles. "Try Love" is a simply unstoppable slab of rocking blues – no wonder the dancers can't resist it. Cookie's second release for Zeke's own Progress label "Do You Still Love Me" is very much in the same vein but slightly less dramatic. The flip Blind Love is a first class blues ballad on which Cookie shows that she can sing the down tempo tracks with as much conviction as the up-tempo ones. Her Press single "I Didn’t Lose A Doggone Thing" continues her rich vein of fine swinging R&B, helped by vocal backing from the Flares. The flip "Write A Song About Me", despite a writer credit to producer Buck Ram, is in fact a dead ringer for Millie’s ska classic "My Boy Lollipop" right down to the horn charts and the harmonica, reputedly played by Rod Stewart on the original. Try love - CYCLONE 121 Jackson's Uptown 45s are well arranged by James Carmichael, always a name to look out for on West Coast singles, and despite the claims of dancers who go for "Uptown Jerk" and "Your Good Girls Gonna Go Bad" I like the tuneful mid-pace of "Love Brings Pain" best. By the time Cookie started working with Larry Williams R&B had given way to soul and on her to Okeh singles there are a couple of outstanding deep soul tracks. Things Go Better with Love was written by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, who was Williams' partner in so many activities both savoury and unsavoury, and is a fine melodic number with a subtle blue tinge to it on which Jackson gives one of her best vocal performances. I think that Fresh Out Of Tears is even better. Williams own song has a superb chord changes and Carmichael deserves a special pat on the back for his beautiful arrangement. The way the horns come in on the second verse to give the number added impetus works very well and the support that Jackson gets from the female chorus is exemplary. Cookie herself is just sensational – full of fire, anger and despair. Cookie Jackson's final 45 for Mel Alexander took her back to her roots in the blues and the foot tapping "Need of Love", with it's attractive hook line, was a very good way for her career to finish. But what a shame she didn't carry on through the 70s. Discography Try love / Hot dog - CYCLONE 121 / PROGRESS 121 [1961] I just want to spread love / How long - DEBRA 5172 [1962] Do you still love me / Blind love - PROGRESS 913 [1963] Woman do something nice / Life ain't worth livin' - REENA 2080 [early 60s] Write a song about me / I didn't lose a doggone thing - PRESS 2814 [1964] [I’m gonna] go shout it on the mountain / Uptown jerk - UPTOWN 700 [1965] Find me a lover / Love brings pain - UPTOWN 714 [1965] Your good girl's gonna go bad / Things go better with love - OKEH 7279 [1967] Fresh out of tears / Suffer - OKEH 7292 [1967] Need of love / The reason I'm singing [the blues] - KRIS 8082 [1970]] Notes - 1. The Reena 45 is straight country - Cookie even gets a "twang" in her voice! This was quite deliberate as she has always loved country music and has said that she wanted to become the first black country music superstar! But the 45 is best avoided. 2. "Your good girls gonna go bad" can be found on the Kent UK CD "Okeh A Northern Soul Obsession Vol 2" and "The reason I’m singing [the blues]" can be found on the same company’s CD "Kris Records Los Angeles Showcase Of Soul". Thanks to Nicci Talbot-Morris