Jo Ann Campbell - I'm Nobody's Baby (Remastered Edition) (2025)

12 tracks, high-quality reprint of the sought-after END LP 306 from 1959, now also very hard to find in this Australian vinyl LP version, the Jo Ann Campbell album ' I'm Nobody's Baby contains ' Mama ( Can I Go Out Tonight)' (written by Bo Diddley), 'Wait A Minute' and 10 more Girlie Rock 'n' Roll beads.

To those who know Jo Ann Campbell, the ex-citement in this album will come as no surprise, for she is considered one of the brightest new singing stars on the popular music horizon. Blue eyed and only 4'W', Jo Ann occupies a very tall position among today's ranking vocalists—not only as a musicians favorite, but because she sings each song as though she were auditioning for a million dollar contract! She displays the legendary enthusiasm in her work that, in show business, is considered the mark of the real professional. You'll hear for yourself in every band of this album, from the plaintive 'Mama' to the coy and kittenish ren-dition of 'I Ain't Got No Steady Date,' a display of vocal versatility that is rare on today's record-ing front.

And how really unusual it is to find a vocalist today who cannot easily be dropped into a slot and labeled. At a time when every singer who fronts a five piece combo with bongoes and vibes is tagged as a 'jazz vocalist,' or, because she can caress an unfamiliar show tune is called a 'supper club sing-er,' it is a treat indeed to hear a songstress who can do all these things and still interpret today's 'big beat' with taste and restraint. While Jo Ann can handle other assignments with ease, these selec-tions showcase her singing and swinging the happy upternpo numbers she really prefers.

And now, who is Jo Ann Campbell? Jo Ann hails from Jacksonville, Florida and her deft handling of an arrangement stems in part from a thorough familiarity and interest in the rhythm and blues, and jazz idiom of the South. She first enjoyed the spotlight as a winner of top honors in the 1952 Florida State Twirling Compe-titions in Miami, as a majorette. Promptly heading for New York and a career as an entertainer, she became a member of a mod-ern jazz group called The Johnny Conrad Dancers,
and soon appeared in the nation's living rooms on the Milton Berle Show and the Colgate Comedy Hour. Bookings soon followed which took her cross country as the distaff half of a dance team called 'The Haydens.' Jo Ann and partner even made a movie short, adding a valuable credit to a budding career, but more important building the confidence with which she can handle an audience today.

But let Jo Ann continue herself 'I never really got over seeing one of Alan Freed's rock and roll shows at the Brooklyn Para-mount Theater in 1958,” she says. 'I knew right then that I had to be a singer, and I wanted so badly to be a good one.' (Jo Ann auditioned for several rec-ord companies in the months afterwards, and even recorded a tune she had written herself.) But it wasn't until she came up with a treatment of 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love' that things began to happen. 'That record won an ap-pearance for me on Jocko's Easter Show at Loew's State Theater in New York,' she is fond of recall-ing, 'and shortly after that I got another big break when I was asked to appear with Allan Freed at the same Brooklyn Paramount where I had decided to put away dancing shoes for a recording career!' gn Gone Records signed Jo Ann to a recording con-tract, and her first record, 'Wait A Minute' became a hit. Since then, it's been a steady climb—New York's Paramount Theater, the Dick Clark TV show, and a movie appearance in 'Johnny Melody' in which 'The Blond Bombshell' sings two songs. This album is dedicated to Jo Ann Campbell's many loyal fans, and to you who, upon hearing 'I'm Nobody's Baby' are sure to become fans. Listen to Jo Ann sing blue and husky in her rendition of 'I Really Really Love You.' Hear her tell a story, as on 'Rock & Roll Love.' 'I'm Nobody's Baby' will convince you that this is one of the most excit-ing and versatile vocalists who may be heard today !