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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
HELP
John Lennon
The Complete Home Recordings
[Unreleased]
HELP ME
Ray Sharpe w/the King Curtis Orchestra feat. Jimi Hendrix
Atco : 1966
Available on: Blues & Soul Power
Atlantic : 2003
[Buy It]
HELP THE BEAR
Ted Taylor
Atco : 1966
Available on: Blues & Soul Power
Atlantic : 2003
[Buy It]
WATCH THE DOG
Sandy Gaye
Moonshot : c.1969
[Out of Print]
DO THE HAWG
Eddie Kirk
Volt : 1963
Available on: The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
Atlantic : 1991
[Buy It]
PASS THE HATCHET
Roger & The Gypsies
Sevem B : 1969
Available on: The Instant & Minit Story
Charly : 2005
[Buy It]
SKIN THE CAT
Jimmy Merchant
Bo-Mar : ?
Available on: Shakin' Fit
Candy : 1992
[Out of Print/Download it here]
SPILL THE WINE
 Live
Eric Burdon & War
Eric Burdon Declares "War"
MGM : 1970
[Buy It]
WRAP IT UP
Sam & Dave
Stax : 1968
Available on: The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
Atlantic : 1991
[Buy It]
PATCH MY HEART
The Mad Lads
Stax : 1966
Available on: The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
Atlantic : 1991
[Buy It]
CLOSE THE DOOR
The Holmes Brothers
State of Grace
Alligator : 2007
[Buy It]
. . . . . . . . . .
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
John & Sean Lennon
The Complete Home Recordings
[Unreleased]Labels: alex, soul, soul/garage-core
posted by Alex
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Here's a nice quote about love:
Love: we are those beings who must, at all times, give our all. To be decieved has no real meaning for us, for we act under immense pressure and the object has the sole functionof unleashing this. Thus we are as naive as children when it comes to judging the loved one. Even when a lover only desires flirtation and a touch of sentiment we are so dazzled that we want to give her everything - our very soul. We are ridiculous, but for good reason.
- Robert Musil, Diaries 1899-1944
And a few tracks from the mix cd I'm working on:
I'M STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
The 5 Royals
Todd 7" : 1963
[Criminally Out of Print]
THAT'S HOW I FEEL
The Soul Clan (Solomon Burke, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Ben E. King, Don Covay)
Soul Meeting
Atlantic : c. 1968
Available on: Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Brothers
Atlantic : 2006
[Buy It]
WHEN YOU TOUCH ME
The Reigning Sound
Too Much Guitar
In The Bed Records : 2004
[Buy It]
PEGGY
Toots & The Maytals
BMN 7" : 1965
Available on: Pressure Drop The Definitive Collection
Trojan : 2005
[Buy It]
LOVE POTION #9
The Coasters
The Coasters on Broadway
King : 1973
[Even More Criminally Out of Print]/Courtesy of Soul Sides
CRIMSON & CLOVER
The Uniques
Available on: The Best of Slim Smith & The Uniques 1967-1969
Trojan US : 2003
[Buy It]
A TASTE OF HONEY (LIVE)
James Booker
Spiders on the Keys: Live at the Maple Leaf Bar
Rounder : 1993
[Buy It]
(THE LOVE I SAW IN YOU WAS) JUST A MIRAGE
The Uniques
Available on: The Best of Slim Smith & The Uniques 1967-1969
Trojan US : 2003
[Buy It]
SEARCHING THE DESERT FOR THE BLUES
Blind Willie McTell
Available on: The Best of Blind Willie McTell
Yazoo : 2004
[Buy It]
GOODBYE BOOZE
The Delmore Brothers
Available on: Classic Cuts 1933-1941
JSP : 2004
[Buy It]
FUEL FOR LOVE
Wrinkers Experience
Available on : EMI Super Hits
EMI Nigeria : c. the early '70s
[Out of Print]/Also courtesy of Soul Sides
There's no theme yet, except that a few friends are getting married this year, so it's pretty heavy on the love songs. And not all of the squares are in place, but a few of these songs - Crimson & Clover, Love Potion # 9, James Booker's Rachmaninov- flavored Taste of Honey - will make it on by dint of their awesomeness. So this is more or less what I've been walking around in the sunshine listening to. And now, in entirely unrelated (but somewhat more timely) news:
FIDEL CASTRO
Lord Invader
Calypso Travels
Folkways : 1959
[Buy It]Labels: african, alex, bluegrass, blues, calypso, reggae, soul, soul/garage-core
posted by Alex
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
1. THAT'S WHAT THE GOOD BOOK SAYS (UNISSUED TAKE)
The Robins
Modern : 1951
Available on: The Leiber & Stoller Story vol. 1: The Los Angeles Years 1951-1956
Ace : 2004
[Buy It]
2. FRIED NECK BONES AND SOME HOME FRIES
Willie Bobo
Uno Dos Tres 1-2-3
Verve : 1965
[Buy It]
3. OMELEBELE
Dr. Victor Olaiya's International All Stars
Available on: Lagos Chop Up: Fuji & Afrobeat, Highlife & Juju
Honest Jon's : 2005
[Buy It]
4. RESPECT
Prince Buster
Sla-Lip-Soul
Blue Beat : 1965
[Out of Print]
5. COLLAGE
The Three Degrees
Maybe
Roulette : 1970
Available on: The Roulette Years
Sequel : 1996
Courtesy of: Soul Sides
[Out of Print]
6. CRY
Johnnie Ray
Okeh : 1951
Available on: Cry!
Bear Family: 1990
[Buy It]
7. ROCOMBEY
Lord Cobra & Pana Afro Sounds
Available on: Panama! Latin, Calypso, and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-1975
Soundway : 2006
[Buy It]
8. THE CHICKEN ASTRONAUT
5 Du-Tones
One-Derful! (?): c. 1963
Available (as an import) on: 5 Du-Tones
Ringo : 1996
[Buy It]
Nice manifesto, Brian - goes good w/the Bolaño novels I've been tearing through this week. So, I'm gonna repeat myself, too, in a way, and post the second Moistworks International New Year's Mix. It'll go up in three parts today, tomorrow, & pver the weekend - just in time for your own, personal New Year's celebration - and you'll be able to download a PDF of the cover soon, though the image above works nicely, too.
Back in the USSR, New Years was the new hotness; Santa Claus - Grandpa Frost - came on New Year's, and celebrants who wrote a single wish on a tiny piece of paper, folded it twice, and swallowed it with their first sip of stroke-of-midnight-champagne found that said wish always came true. Try it yourselves - but careful what you wish for!
1. The very young Leiber and Stoller record what is maybe the first rock and roll song, and what makes it so is that the Robins manage to get each and every biblical reference back-asswards. You can tell that Leiber and Stoller are real artists from the days/night get-go:Well in the days of old King Sol
Every night was a crazy ball
The cats smoked hay through a rubber hose
And the women they wore transparent clothes... 2. 'Nuff religion; let's eat &
3. dance.
4. The mighty Prince Buster seems to incorporate verses based on "Turn, Turn, Turn," which came out just a few weeks after "Respect," into this recording of, er, "Respect." Mash-ups, too, are nothing esp. new.
5. One of the best songs Soul Sides posted this year, recorded in 1970 by Prince Charles' favorite girl group: "Wintertime is razor blade that the devil made/It's a price we pay for the summertime."
6. This song puts in an encore appearance later on in the mix, in an entirely different context. I've got lots to say about Johnnie Ray, and if my hand wasn't broken I'd say it here.
7. The Morning News singled us out as their favorite [MP3] blog this year (thanks, Morning News dudes!); they specifically mentioned my love of calypso. What can I say? I dig calypso.
NB: Vodun is the second of 4 (or 5, depending on whether you consider the Robins song Jewish or xTian) religions to appear on this mix.
8. The 5 Du-Tones - who recorded the original "Shake a Tail Feather" - are unheralded geniuses. Is there such a thing as soul/garage-core? If so, Du-Tones are the fuckin' Sonics.
to be continued....Labels: afro-beat, alex, calypso, new year's mix, prince charles, rock and roll = gospel music, soul/garage-core, spanish grease
posted by Alex
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