Similar initial reaction here .. and the Youtube excerpt from the "Fallin Love" album at first made me think "So Pee Wee Marquette is singing now too??"
For a slightly different and more grittier setting the below CD would merit some listening too:
https://www.discogs.com/master/1041704-Little-Jimmy-ScottPaul-Gayten-Band-With-Special-Guest-Sam-Butera-Regal-Records-Live-In-New-Orleans
Somehow I feel the somewhat more youthful Jimmy Scott doesn't sound quite so "female" there, but rather like a sort of grown-up Sugar Chile Robinson.