Nella Dodds Discography of CDs

Nella Dodds albums Both sides of all six singles Nella Dodds released on Wand in the mid-'60s are on this compilation, along with three outtakes from the same era. When you add in the thorough liner notes (with quotes from Dodds herself), it amounts to a definitive job on what's likely to be the only Nella Dodds album ever issued, as she didn't record again, though she was only in her teens at the time. Though all of this material was cut in Philadelphia, more often than not it's uncannily similar to the mid-'60s Motown sound, and particularly similar to Mary Wells and the Supremes. Such similarities aren't coincidental; Dodds covered some of the same Eddie Holland-Lamont Dozier-Brian Holland compositions Wells and the Supremes did, including "Come See About Me," which made it up to number 74 in the charts (though the Supremes' version was far more successful, going all the way to number one). While Dodds might have fit in well on the Motown roster, many of these tracks suffer the ...