Artist Guide

"Do You Want Somebody?"

Alonzo Reid (Best Ballad! w/ LaKeisha)

January 28, 2018:

Daddy B. Nice Announces THE WINNERS of the 2017 (11th Annual) SOUTHERN SOUL MUSIC AWARDS.

Best Ballad

Top Contenders:

“She Don’t Want Me No More” ----- Mr. Sam
“Do You Want Somebody?” ----- Alonzo Reid & LaKeisha
“Going Down Slow” ------ Sir Charles Jones & Wendell B.
“Naked” ----- Louisiana Blues Brothers feat. Big Pokey Bear & Tyree Neal
“All The Time Groovin’” ---- Lady Di
“Darkest Hour” ---- Big G
"We Belong Together" ---- Big Pokey Bear & Lacee
“Somewhere” ----- Uncle Wayne
“Three Rounds” ----- Tre’ Williams
“C’Mon, C’Mon” ---- Gentry Jones
“Spacey Love” ----- Nellie “Tiger” Travis
“Please Don’t Leave My Woman Alone” ---- Lomax
"In The Mood" ----- Pokey Bear & Cupid
"I Got Your Back" ----- Sweet Angel
“Sexy Swing” ---- Candice G.
"Sweet Tooth" ---- Tucka
"Groovin' Together" ----- Arthur Roland
"I'll Pay The Shipping Cost" ---- Ronnie Bell
"Walking In The Rain In Memphis" ---- Nellie "Tiger" Travis

Best Ballad: "Do You Want Somebody?" by Alonzo Reid & LaKeisha

Listen to Alonzo Reid & LaKeisha singing "Do You Want Somebody" on YouTube.



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About Alonzo Reid (Best Ballad! w/ LaKeisha)

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For. . .

-------APRIL 2017-------

1. ”Do You Want Somebody?”-----Alonzo Reid feat. LaKeisha Burks

I think of this as Alonzo’s “Struggling Lady” song. The guitar riff, the cradle-rocking tempo, the lead and back-up vocals are all perfect and could have been recorded around the turn of the century, when your Daddy B. Nice was blinded by the light of southern soul music. Alonzo was playing guitar for Marvin Sease at the time and LaKeisha was one of Marvin’s background singers. LaKeisha--who went on to sing with fellow Montgomery, Alabaman and most famous Sease alumnus Sir Charles Jones--had a vocal style as distinctive and important to southern soul’s legacy as Jackie Neal’s, and her superb, double-tracked singing here sounds just like she did then, the perfect foil for Alonzo’s similarly sophisticated country pleading. (Apologies to Alonzo for using LaKeisha’s drawing, one of my old favorites. DBN)

Listen to Alonzo Reid singing "Do You Want Somebody?" on YouTube.

Striving 4 Perfection Track List

1. I Need a Woman That Can Bring Dat Fire


2. Can't Stand a Lyin' Azz Man


3. Your Tongue Alone Can't Do the Job


4. Your Loving Is so Good


5. Three Wishes


6. I'm Having a Party


7. Is It Real Love


8. I Tried


9. Do You Want Somebody 2 Love You

Buy Alonzo Reid's STRIVING 4 PERFECTION album at CD Baby.

Honorary "B" Side

"Hush Money"