650 Garnet Mimms (1933- ) and the Enchanters “Cry Baby” 1963

“Garnet Mimms didn’t see himself as a musical trailblazer when he cut the career-making ‘Cry Baby’ in 1963. ‘No, not really, but they told me I was,’ the 74-year-old gospel-soul singer says with a laugh…’ ‘They’ include R&B expert Robert Pruter…Pruter writes…’The song was a gospelized production so full of the soul-saving, fire-and-brimstone ecstasies of the black sanctified church that it singularly stood apart…Never had the public heard anything so intense and so emotional on top 40 radio’” (Nick Cristiano, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/10/2008).

Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters “Cry Baby”