One-derful! was a record label group in Chicago that was part of the city's famous Record Row and stood as one of the city's most prominent African-American-run music business forces. Sublabel Mar-V-Lus led the charge for scads of R&B gold, floor-filling dance grooves, heartsick ballads, and teeny-bopper pop, releasing essential cuts from Johnny Sayles, Josephine Taylor, The Blenders, Alvin Cash, Miss Madeline & The Young Folk, and honey-voiced teen R&B group The Du-Ettes.The latter's slinky single, "I Don't Know," appears on a new Mar-V-Lus compliation from Secret Stash Records, and is the second in a One-derful! series that aims to span each affiliated label's output (next up: collections from M-Pac!, Halo, Midas, and Toddlin' Town). The compilation is available to pre-order on CD and double LP, and features twenty-five vintage and unreleased tracks sure to thrill the soul connoisseur and genre novice alike.Listen to "If You Need Me" below, and lose yourself in the smooth, sulty sounds of a bygone era.
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