this version battle comes courtesy of a suggestion from longtime member @Kegsy

It's a three way one this time 

I Have No Choice

The three versions to choose from...

Johnnie Mae Matthews

Sharon McMahan aka Audrey Matthews version

Black Nasty

 

 

Johnnie Mae Matthews

 

 

 

Sharon McMahan aka Audrey Matthews version

 

 

 

Black Nasty

there you go, all you need to do now is just voice your choice

and yes you do have one!

 

 

 

So hard to choose! All brilliant.

Went with the Nasty just for its modern feel, but would love to own all of them.

Ed

Black Nasty 45 took me by suprise thought it was lp only, little bit of investigation shows its a photo shop  

 

Defo Audrey Matthews (especially for the dodgy Classiest Rarities CD cover design courtesy of me/Carne Whitney Partners!) - I'm sure everyone knows by now but Black Nasty were Johnnie Mae's kids.

Dx

Edited July 25, 20186 yr by DaveNPete

11 minutes ago, concrete said:

Black Nasty 45 took me by suprise thought it was lp only, little bit of investigation shows its a photo shop  

 

hah yep that caught me out

have put in a different video now 👍

Johnnie Mae Matthews - but only just. The rawness in her voice makes me believe that she really means it.

 

1 hour ago, tomangoes said:

So hard to choose! All brilliant.

Went with the Nasty just for its modern feel, but would love to own all of them.

Ed

Same for me, its just more polished in production terms.

I feel that Johnnie Mae Matthews  is the safe option but I voted the Black Nasty version,

amazing production,works perfectly for my mood this time of the year

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, mike said:

this version battle comes courtesy of a suggestion from longtime member @Kegsy

It's a three way one this time 

I Have No Choice

The three versions to choose from...

Johnnie Mae Matthews

Sharon McMahon aka Audrey Matthews version

Black Nasty

 

 

Johnnie Mae Matthews

 

 

 

Sharon McMahon aka Audrey Matthews version

 

 

 

Black Nasty

there you go, all you need to do now is just voice your choice

and yes you do have one!

 

 

 

How do you vote on this ? Three simply sublime pieces of soul music all produced and arranged with passion. 

Audrey Matthew's ( I think  )

But the Black Nasty version is a brilliant modern take on it. 

Johnnie Mae Matthews version simply blew me away when I first heard it at a nighter. 

Steve 

 

The  Sharon McMahon version from Heyley records is different from the one posted,

all the versions are excellent

 

28 minutes ago, RC166 said:

The  Sharon McMahon version from Heyley records is different from the one posted,

all the versions are excellent

 

Nice version.  Very two step-ish. . Not quite as strong as the other takes in my humble opinion 

Steve 

Edited July 25, 20186 yr by Winsford Soul

Myself and Graham Finch spent an afternoon at Johnnie Mae’s house on Santa Barbara in September 2001.

When the ‘so called’ version by Audrey was played to JM she declared that she had no idea whose voice it was.

JM’s son Artwell appeared later and gave the same opinion.

Unfortunately Audrey was out of town that day but we do have another track to make comparison with under her pseudonym Kaiya.

 

JMM has the edge definitely here the other two or nice JMM s is excellent

ML

This was a night to remember....a real chance in a million

 

Ed

Someone must release this soon,I only have the Jimmy Delphs version,

video clip is mine

 

Back when JMM started it's domination of the rare soul scene, I remember some of the boys playing the Black Nasty version at venues like Albrighton etc and I was completely dismissive of it, because I was doing a straight comparison. I will always adore JMM, but these days I understand the Black Nasty and how it's different approach has something to offer. 
Older & Wiser maybe, but still voted JMM

Johnnie Mae Matthews for me. 

The others are good but Johnnie Mae Matthews is exceptional - beautiful piece of music. 

 

2 hours ago, tomangoes said:

This was a night to remember....a real chance in a million

 

Ed

what a great night it was....

 

Without doubt the BEST version, properly produced by Ollie McLaughlin, arranged by Mike Terry and featuring the Funk Brothers.

Christ tough one for me , changed my mind three times lol between jm and Bn , went for black nasty . 

all over...  so you most defintely have no choice now

Johnnie Mae Matthews take is the most popular choice with over 77% 

and so plays us out...

 

thanks to all who took part in the discussion and voting 

 

On 26/07/2018 at 20:35, Colnago said:

Christ tough one for me , changed my mind three times lol between jm and Bn , went for black nasty . 

I went for jm but on listening to black nasty of which I hadn't heard before 😮 I'm swerving over now to black nasty😂 one on its way as we speak 👍 atb baz

Johnnie mae all the way.......please can someone get in touch if they have a copy to sell, thanks!