(R&B, Chicago soul, Northern soul) Billy Stewart - One More Time: The Chess Years (Compilation) - 1990, MP3, 320 kbps

01. Billy's Blues, Pt. 2 (02:26)
02. Fat Boy (02:45)
03. Reap What You Sow (02:26)
04. Sugar and Spice (02:54)
05. Strange Feeling (02:09)
06. Count Me Out (02:34)
07. I Do Love You (03:02)
08. Keep Lovin' (02:24)
09. Sitting in the Park (03:17)
10. Love Me (02:55)
11. Summertime (04:56)
12. How Nice It Is (03:09)
13. Because I Love You (02:08)
14. Every Day I Have the Blues (02:55)
15. Secret Love (03:01)
16. Cross My Heart (03:02)
17. One More Time (02:50)
18. Golly Golly Gee (02:59)
19. Tell Me the Truth (02:50)
20. I'm in Love (Oh, Yes I Am) (02:59)

Billy Stewart (March 24, 1937 – January 17, 1970) was an American musical artist, with a highly distinctive scat-singing style, who enjoyed popularity in the 1960s.
Stewart was 12 years old when he began singing with his brothers Johnny 11, James 9 and Frank 4 as the 4 Stewart Brothers, and later went on to get their own radio show every Sunday for five years at WUST radio station in Washington, D.C.
He made the transition to secular music by filling in occasionally for The Rainbows, a D.C. area vocal group led by the future soul star, Don Covay. It was also through The Rainbows that Stewart met another aspiring singer, Marvin Gaye. Seminal rock and roller Bo Diddley has been credited with discovering Stewart playing piano in Washington, D.C. in 1956 and inviting him to be one of his backup musicians.
This led to a recording contract with Diddley's label, Chess Records and Diddley played guitar on Stewart's 1956 recording of "Billy's Blues". A strong seller in Los Angeles, "Billy's Blues" reached the sales top 25 in Variety magazine. Stewart then moved to Okeh Records and recorded "Billy's Heartache", backed by the Marquees, another D.C. area group which featured Marvin Gaye.
Back at Chess in the early 1960s, Stewart began working with A&R man Billy Davis. He recorded a song called "Fat Boy" and then had additional success with his recordings of "Reap What You Sow" and "Strange Feeling", both making the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 30 in the R&B charts. Major chart success was not far away and in 1965, Stewart recorded two self-written songs, "I Do Love You" (#6 R&B, #26 Pop), which featured his brother Johnny Stewart as one of the backing vocalists, and "Sitting in the Park" (#4 R&B, #24 Pop). His idiosyncratic improvisational technique of doubling-up, scatting his words and trilling his lips made his style unique in the 1960s.[citation needed]
In 1966, Stewart recorded the LP Unbelievable. The first single released from that album was Stewart's radical interpretation of the George Gershwin song, "Summertime", a Top 10 hit on both the pop and R&B charts. The follow-up single was Stewart's cover version of the Doris Day hit "Secret Love", which reached the Pop Top 30 and just missed the Top 10 on the R&B chart.
While Stewart continued to record throughout the remainder of the 1960s on Chess without major success, his weight problem worsened and he developed diabetes. He suffered minor injuries in a motorcycle accident in 1969 and died the following January, just two months prior to his 33rd birthday. It happened when the car he was driving plunged into the Neuse River in Smithfield, North Carolina, killing him and three members of his band.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, his music was popular among Latino, specifically Chicano, youth on the West Coast.[citation needed] Stewart was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 1982.
His version of "Summertime" was one of the songs featured on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show and was one of the few artists Bob actually responded about during his mainly fictitious email responses to listener questions.
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