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At his best Clyde McPhatter was glorious. Here's some of what he was doing in 1960, six years after going solo from The Drifters. He had just switched from the Atlantic to MGM to the Mercury label.

1) Ta Ta (Just Like a Baby) - US Billboard #23 in the fall, his first on the Mercury label. That year Mercury was producing some great arrangements like this for Brook Benton and Dinah Washington. This is the original single, with digital cleanup.
2) What's Love To Me - from the Ta Ta album, written by him and Jimmy Oliver.
3) Not Me - album
4) I'll Stop Anything I'm Doing - apparently this was unreleased. Sounds like a mid 1960 Mercury recording. I like it very much. Do you think it could have been a hit?