Dorothy Moore

In 1976 Dorothy Moore scored a pair of major successes on Malaco, delivering both “Misty Blue” and “Funny How Time Slips Away.” The former climbed to number two on the R&B survey and number three on the pop chart, its aching, heartfelt delivery marking it as a standout soul ballad. Although her reading of Willie Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away” lacked the definitive stamp Joe Hinton had brought to the tune, it still outperformed that earlier version commercially by peaking at number seven R&B. Moore remained with the label throughout the eighties, notching one further Top Ten R&B entry in 1977 titled “I Believe You.” Late in the decade she moved to the revived Volt imprint, where she cut the albums Time Out for Me and Winner, then came back to Malaco to complete her remaining releases of the nineties. In 2002 Farish Street issued her seasonal collection Please Come Home for Christmas.