Sunday 22 March 2020

Annette Snell born 22 March 1945


Annette Snell (March 22, 1945 – April 4, 1977) was an American rhythm and blues singer who recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. She died in the Southern Airways Flight 242 crash.

She was born Annetta Snell in Orlando, Florida. Little is known about her childhood and the story immediately continues to where she starts a professional career in music.In the early 1960s she was a member of a vocal backing group, the Mar-Vells The members of the group were all local Florida girls and did live concerts and session work for other Florida musicians. From 1963 and until 1968 or 69 the line-up consisted of: Annette Snell, Mattie Lovett, Addie Williams and Loretta Ludlow.

The Mar-Vells
Changing their name to The Fabulettes on their first recording for Monument Records was probably a decision taken by the record company who would not have been interested in promoting yet another band named Marvels/Mar-Vells/Marvells. Even though the group still performed as The Mar-Vells in the Florida area all their recordings were, from this point on, issued under the Fabulettes moniker.

The Fabulettes
Sometime during 1968 or early 1969 Annette Snell left the group to pursue a solo career. The Fabulettes attempted to find a replacement but after cutting two more records they split up. Annette went to New York, and then to Nashville, Tennessee. Under the name Annetta, she recorded "Since There Is No More You" with Paul Kelly, whom she met when in the Mar-vells. The record, although leased by Juggy Murray for national distribution, didn't make much noise.


                             

Kelly then brought her to the attention of record producer and music publisher Buddy Killen, who was suitably impressed. More singles came, all written by Kelly, and her greatest success was achieved with the No. 19 Billboard rhythm and blues hit "You 
Annette in NYC
Oughta' Be Here With Me" in 1973. She followed it up with two more R&B chart hits, also released on the Dial label, the following year, "Get Your Thing Together" (No. 44); and "Just as Hooked As I’ve Been" (No. 71).

She then won a deal to record an album for Epic Records in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with the Swampers session musicians. The studio was unique because The Swampers, had creative control over who was able to record sessions and when sessions were recorded. They initially produced one unreleased single, "Promises Should Never be Broken", and Snell returned for a further session in early 1977.

She was returning home via Atlanta, Georgia after working on tracks for the album when she was killed with 71 others when  the flight she was on, Southern Airways Flight 242, went down in New Hope, Georgia during a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977. Sixty-three people in the plane are killed, as are nine people in New Hope. Some survive the crash. Annette Snell is one of the victims. She had just turned 32.

Annette was buried in Dade North Memorial Park Cemetery Opa-locka, Florida. She was married to Pete Jackson of Touch of Class

(Edited mainly from Wikipedia & doowopheaven)

7 comments:

boppinbob said...

There doesn’t appear to be an anthology of Annette’s work, so hopefully I have put that right. I only had a limited number of tracks from various CD’s but managed to find the remainder from You Tube. So be warned some tracks are below standard as they are taken from the vinyl sources marked (*)

So for my humble compilation “Annette Snell – Collected “ go here:

https://www.upload.ee/files/11314824/Annette_Snell_-_Collected.rar.html

The Mar-Vells (members Annette Snell, Loretta Ludlow, Mattie Lovett and Addie Williams)

1) This Can’t Go On 1964 (*)
2) Dizzy Jones Birdland – 1964 (*)

The Mar-Vells with D. Jones & The Continentals (members Annette Snell, Loretta Ludlow, Mattie Lovett, Addie Williams, Dizzy Jones,

3) Go On And Have Yourself A Ball (1963) (*)
4) How Do I Keep The Girls Away (1963) (*)

The Fabulettes (members Annette Snell, Loretta Ludlow, Mattie Lovett and Addie Williams)

5) The Bigger They Are (The Harder They Fall) (1965) (*)
6) Mr. Policeman (1965)
7) Try The Worryin' Way (1965)
8) Money (That’s What I Want) (lead Addie Williams) (1965)
9) Screamin' And Shoutin' (1966)
10) I'm In The Mood For Love (1966) (*)
11) Muddy Waters (1967)
12) Stickin’ Kind Of Man (1967) (*)

Annetta (Annette Snell)

13) Get Away Boy (1968)
14) Since There's No More Of You (1968)

Annette Snell

15) Footprints On My Mind (1973)
16) I'll Be Your Fool Once More (1973)
17) You Oughta Be Here With Me (1973)
18) Get Your Thing Together (1973)
19) Just As Hooked As I've Ever Been (1973)
20) Love Connection (1974)
21) It's All Over Now (1974)
22) Promises Should Never Be Broken (1977) (this 45 was taken from the Epic album she was recording when she died)
23) Tonight I feel Like Dancing (unreleased Epic album track)(1977)

Bob Mac said...

Many thanks for this, very interesting read and I'm looking forward to getting into these tracks later today.

Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities said...

Many thanks

pedro B said...

She did have a great voice had a couple of 45's

Manolex said...

Please if it could be put back

boppinbob said...

Hello Manolex, Here's Annette.....

https://krakenfiles.com/view/VyrvkaRFSm/file.html

Manolex said...

Muchas gracias