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THE PETS - I SAY YEAH 26 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
(originally posted 12/3/11) If one were to judge this record simply by the intro, it may be a turn off. While the girls sing the "yeah's" in cool harmony, it may lead the listener to think the record...
LEE MAYE - FOOLS RUSH IN 25 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Lee Maye was not the modest type; while he had far more success as a major league baseball player, he had a parallel career as a singer and he was quoted as saying, "I am the best singing athlete that...
RICHIE HAVENS - INDIAN ROPE MAN 24 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
"Indian Rope Man" and the LP that it was drawn from (Richard P. Havens) was released in the spring of 1969; just a few short months before his triumphant opening set at the Woodstock Festival, capture...
JOHNNY NASH - I'M MOVIN' ON 23 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
"I'm Movin' On" was originally written an recorded by country artist Hank Snow in 1950; Hank's original version was a straight blues but performed in a style that was far more western swing than the a...
ROSCO GORDON - YOU GOT MY BAIT 21 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
(originally posted 6/9/11) Legendary Memphis bluesman Rosco(e) Gordon DID NOT give up the music business when he moved to Queens, NY in 1962 as stated on Wikipedia. Rosco made fewer records during th...
THE REALISTICS - IF THIS AIN'T LOVE 20 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
While Loma was a Los Angeles label (in fact, it was a Warner Brothers offshoot specifically set up for soul releases), this particular group seems to have been from Ohio (perhaps their two releases we...
ANNA KING - IN BETWEEN TEARS 19 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Anna King's time spent singing secular music was incredibly brief (1961-1965), but she cut some incredible records on her own, in addition to working side by side with James Brown. This was her debut,...
GIN AND THE GENTS - BOY AND GIRL 18 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
(originally posted 8/28/11) The only things I know about this group is that they were from Greensboro, North Carolina, and that female singer Gin (Virginia Massey) joined up with a group called The A...
13TH POWER - I SEE A CHANGE IS GONNA COME 17 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
The details of this group/ record are completely unknown, all signs point to it being an L.A studio musician concoction... Whatever the story, it's an excellent example of the folk-rock-morphing-into-...
ROSA LEE BROOKS - MY DIARY b/w UTEE 16 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
This record has been a holy grail of sorts for me since, oh, around 1990 when I first read about it in the book Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. In those days, of course, there was no internet so the pos...
