Madeline Bell “Don’t Cross Over To My Side Of The Street” (Columbia 7257, 1964)
Stepping out of the shadows of gospel choir and background singing in the UK, here we have the flipside of Madeline Bell’s debut solo single for Columbia from the spring of 1964.
It’s an interesting hybrid that lyrically borrows a lot of themes from “Walk On By” (with the explicit instructions not to even bother occupying the same parcel of sidewalk as Madeline) but surrounded with the kind of perky brill building-esqe surroundings that you’d expect of a Shirelles record.
