P. P. Arnold

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Please note that this is NOT the preferred and most commonly used spelling for this artist. Please scrobble as PP Arnold. Pat Arnold (born Patrica Ann Cole, 3 October 1946, Los Angeles, California), professionally known as P.P. Arnold, is an American born soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and beyond. Born into a family of gospel singers, Arnold married early and had two children, working a series of menial jobs until the early 1960s, 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 and Tina Turner Revue. Smith and Scott had been stood up by a third girl, and desperate from someone to make up the trio, Smith contacted Arnold, whom she knew to be a singer. At the audition the three girls were offered the job on the spot, but Smith convinced 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 struck her. Arnold left him immediately and, placing her children in the care of her parents, she joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. After several years touring the United States with the Revue, she came to England in 1966 when the Revue toured there in support of The Rolling Stones. Impressed by her powerful and

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The First Cut

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Greatest Hits Of The 60's CD3

Electric Dreams

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Rock The Boat

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Once On This Island (Original London Cast)

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pitchfork's 200 greatest songs of the 1960s

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The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter ...Ever! - CD1

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The Blues Anthology CD3

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Huge Hits Of The 60s & 70s [Digital Edition]

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Pop Goez Immediate - CD1

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Greatest Hits Of The 60's

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The First Cut: the Immediate Anthology

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