"Soul Singer" PP Arnold Signed 4X6 Page Mounted to 8X10 Mat JG Autographs COA

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"Soul Singer" P. P. Arnold Hand Signed 4X6 Page Mounted to 8X10 Mat.
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Patricia Ann Cole
(born October 3, 1946) known professionally as
P. P. Arnold
, is an American
soul
singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards. Arnold was born into a family of
gospel
singers, and performed as a vocal soloist for the first time when she was four years old. Her family lived in the African-American
Watts
neighborhood of
Los Angeles
.
She married early and had two children, Kevin and Debbie. Arnold worked two jobs, one in an office and the other in food manufacturing, until 1965, when Maxine Smith, an ex-girlfriend of her brother, contacted her with an offer. Maxine and her friend
Gloria Scott
had managed to arrange an audition for three girls to replace the original
Ikettes
, the dancer/singer troupe that provided vocal and dance accompaniment for the
Ike & Tina Turner Revue
.
Smith contacted Arnold, whom she knew to be a singer. At the audition the three young women were offered the job on the spot, but Smith persuaded Arnold to attend a concert in
Fresno
that night before making a final decision. When she arrived home at 6:00 the next morning, Arnold's furious husband hit her. She left him immediately, and after placing her children in the care of her parents, joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. As an Ikette, Arnold sang lead on the 1966 single "What'cha Gonna Do (When I Leave You)," backed by
Brenda Holloway
and
Patrice Holloway
for
Phil Spector
's
Phi-Dan Records
. Arnold sang backing vocals on the tracks "
River Deep – Mountain High
" and "
A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)
" in 1966. She also appeared in the 1966 concert film,
The Big T.N.T Show
. Arnold quit the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the fall of 1966 after their tour with
the Rolling Stones
in the UK. She remained in London to establish a solo career, with the encouragement of
Mick Jagger
. Arnold noted the difference between how she had been treated in America and how she was received in England, saying, "A young black woman on her own in America in a white environment would not have been treated as well as I was in England."
Her friendship with Jagger helped her land a solo contract with
Immediate Records
, a label founded by Rolling Stones manager
Andrew Loog Oldham
. Arnold enjoyed several major British hits on Immediate Records, including songs written for her by
Paul Korda
, who wrote "The Time Has Come". She also recorded songs written by
Steve Marriott
and
Ronnie Lane
from labelmates
Small Faces
, who also backed her on several recordings; Arnold had a brief romantic liaison with Marriott in 1967.
She toured with the Small Faces during 1967-68, made several TV appearances with them, and featured as backing vocalist on two of their biggest hits, "
Itchycoo Park
" and "
Tin Soldier
". Other credits in this period include her duet with
Rod Stewart
on the single "Come Home Baby" (produced by Mick Jagger on Immediate Records, with
Ron Wood
on guitar,
Keith Richards
on bass,
Nicky Hopkins
on electric piano,
Keith Emerson
on Hammond organ and the
Georgie Fame
Brass Section), as well as
Chris Farlowe
's version of the
Motown
standard "
Reach Out (I'll Be There)
" (with
Albert Lee
on guitar and
Carl Palmer
on drums). Her first backing band, the Blue Jays, had been inherited from American soul singer Ronnie Jones and included former
Bluesbreakers
guitarist
Roger Dean
. This was followed by
the Nice
, whose line-up was Keith Emerson on organ, who had just quit the VIPs (later to be known as
Spooky Tooth
),
David O'List
on guitar,
Lee Jackson
on bass and Ian Hague on drums. During this period she scored several hits, including the original version of
Cat Stevens
' song "
The First Cut Is the Deepest
"
and "
Angel of the Morning
", plus the Marriott-Lane song "(If You Think You're) Groovy".
After the collapse of Immediate Records in the late 1960s, Arnold signed a production contract with the
Robert Stigwood Organisation
and released two singles on the
Polydor
label, produced by
Barry Gibb
, but a planned album with Gibb was never completed.
Between 1969 and 1970, she recorded eleven songs which were produced by Gibb himself but only two of the songs "
Bury Me Down By the River
" and "Give a Hand, Take a Hand" were released. In February 1970, she sang harmony vocals on the song "
Born
" which was included on Gibb's debut solo album
The Kid's No Good
.