28 tracks, recommended Fine collection of soul rarities
originally issued in the late 80s on two LPs. It includes lots of good
Southern soul sides. Among the highlights are Andre Williams's 1966 hit
Rib Tips, Pts 1 &2, Dobie Gray's See You At The Go Go which
sounds like Phil Spector producing The In Crowd, Fontella Bass & Tina Turner
dueting on Poor Little Fool, Tommie Young's great Everybody's Got
A Little Devil In Their Soul, the original (?) version of Lickin'
Stick by George Torrence And The Naturals, Bobby Marchan's 1966 hit
Shake Your Tambourine , I'll Do Anything by Doris Troy, written
by Gamble & Huff, Clyde McPhatter's Everybody Loves A Good Time
written by Van McCoy, Ann Mason doing Wilson Pickett's You Can't Love Me
plus cuts by Vernon Garrett, Freddy Scott, Wilmer & The Dukes, Sam Dees,
Tommy Neal, Bobby Patterson, Leon Haywood, Roy Lee Johnson and others. Sound
quality is satisfactory. (GM/ FS) WILMER ALEXANDER JR. & THE DUKES: Give Me More More Chance/ FONTELLA BASS &
TINA TURNER: Poor Little Fool/ HAROLD BETTER: Funky Soul/ SAM DEES: Soul
Sister/ THOMAS EAST & FABULOUS PLAYBOYS: I Get A Groove/ VERNON GARRETT:
Shine It On/ DOBIE GRAY: See You At The Go Go/ CLAY HAMMOND: Dance Little
Girl/ LEON HAYWOOD: Mellow Midnight/ Soul Cargo/ ROY LEE JOHNSON: Nobodydoes
Something For Nothing/ BOBBY MARCHAN: Shake Your Tambourine/ ANN MASON: You
Can't Love Me/ CLYDE MCPHATTER: Everybody Loves A Good Time/ FLOYD MORRIS: A
Mellow Mood/ CLARENCE MURRAY: Dancing To The Beat/ TOMMY NEAL: Goin' To A
Happening/ THE PAC-KEYS: Diggin/ WILLIE PARKER: You Got Your Finger In My
Eye/ BOBBY PATTERSON: If You Took A Survey/ PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Let Me Do My
Thing/ FREDDY SCOTT: Pow City/ ROSCO SHELTON: Easy Going Fellow/ GEORGE
TORRENCE & THE NATURALS: Lickin' Stick/ DORIS TROY: I'll Do Anything/ ANDRE
WILLIAMS: Rib Tips (parts 1 & 2)/ BOBBY WILLIAMS: Baby I Need Your Love/
TOMMIE YOUNG: Everybody's Got A Little Devil In Their Soul
Two CD set featuring 50 tracks of New Orleans R&B and rock &
roll recorded for Andrew Blanco's Drew-Blan labels between 1959 and 1963.
Artists featured include Jay Nelson, Peter Buck & The Dondeleers, Jimmy
Dale, Wayne & The Velvetones, The Vikings, Skinny Dynamo (a Fats Domino
imitator - surprise, surprise!)Charles Leman, Gilbert Giroir, Earl King,
Allen Orange and The Drew-Blan All Stars. 20 of the tracks are unissued
studio recordings, demos or rehearsal tapes. Some good stuff here along with
some pedestrian material and it would have made a better single CD.
29 tracks, good
A collection of 29 tracks recorded in New
Orleans between 1963 and 1968 under the guidance of the remarkable Sax Kari
- a figure who appears prominently as a musician, producer, songwriter and
more from the late 40s through to the present day. His work is represented
on dozens of labels including important independents as well tiny labels
some of them run by himself. The music here represents the full range of
Kari's eclectic talents from the down home bllues of Polka Dot Slim to the
lounge music of Kari himself with The Codes. We also hear urban blues
(Warren Lee Taylor), funky New Orleans R&B (Chris Kenner), soul (Charles
"Soul" Brown) and more. There's lots of good music here that's not available
elsewhere but I find it hard to recommend this because of the poor sound
quality. Tracks are presumably mastered from worn 45s and the sound is
frequently distorted. I know these records are not that easy to come by but
I think with greater effort to track down better copies and with more care
in remastering it could have been much better. (FS)
A collection of 23 tracks recorded between 1959 and 1981 and
produced by underrated New Orleans producer/ arranger Wardell Quezerque
(pronounced "keh-zare" - hence the rhyming album title). The music is a mix
of New Orleans R&B, soul, funk and a bit of pop. 13 tracks were on
previously issued LPs/ CDs on Night Train/ Funky Delicacies or Soulville
albums. The rets are from rare singles or unissued. Artists include Elliot
Small, Wardell & The Sultans, Warren (Lee) Taylor, Irma Thomas, Reggie Hall,
Donald Lee Richardson, Joe Wilson, Tommy Val, Joe Wilson, June Gardner, Jim
Cotton and others.
Nice 24 track collection of doo-wop rarities from the 50s
and early 60s - most making their first appearance on CD. A couple of tracks have excessive digital noise filtering
but sound is mostly fine. Cute cover too. THE CALUMETS: Every Beat Of My Heart/ HAL DAVIS: Merchant Of Love/ What Do
You Mean To Me/ THE DEL BROOKS: Darling Barbara/ THE ELGINS: Lonesome/
Pretending/ THE FIVE GENTS: I Never Told You/ THE KENTS: I Love You So/ THE
KNIGHTSMEN: Darling, Why/ SHIRLEY MCDONALD: You/ THE MONARCHS: Coming Home/
Love You, That's Why/ THE OWLS: So Lost/ GLORIA RAMSEY: My Love/ JOHNNY
REBEL: What Will You Give In Return/ Write Me A Letter/ MORRIS RODGERS & THE
CONTINENTALS: Wonders Of Love/ THE SATANS: What A Fool/ THE STINGS: Til We
Two Are One/ THE SWEET MARQUEES: I Love My Baby/ You Lied/ THE TADS: Your
Reason/ BETTE WATTS: Do Me A Favor/ Let It Be
Collection of 23 soul ballads from the late 60s and early
70s - a mix of hits and rarities. Includes Skip Mahoney & The casuals, The
Notations, Ballads, Nights, Chi-Lites, Continetal Four, Manhattans, Eddie
Holman & The Larks, The Vibrations, Billy Butler & The Enchanters, The
Futures, Delfonics and others.
25 tracks, 58 mins, highly recommended. Another fine
collection of obscure up-tempo blues and rocking R&B from the 50s and 60s -
most of it making its first appearance on CD. The opening cut How Wild
Can A Woman Be by Harold "Thunderbird" Ward is probably the weakest here
and I feared the worst but it picks up after that with fine sides by Robert
McCoy & The FIve Sins, Richard "Popcorn" Wylie (a fine version of Barrett
Strongs Money), Chris Kenner (three of his rarest sides including the
down home Don't Let her Pin That Charge On Me with harmonica), Big
Bob Dougherty, Elliot Shavers (the burning instrumental Down Home Blues),
Freddie Hall, Cledus Harrison, Rex Garvin, Larry Emmett & The Sliders,
Charlotte Cole, Lloyd Price, Baby Little & The Hardbreakers (two unissued
demos) and more. Good sound. (FS) BABY LITTLE & THE HARDBREAKERS: Baby, Baby/ Neck Bones Every Day/ CHARLOTTE
COLE: Bless You Baby/ DAVE & BOB: Whoa Bessie/ BIG BOB DOUGHERTY: Teenage
Flip/ Why/ LARRY EMMETT & THE SLIDERS: West Coast Blues/ REX GARVIN: Oh
Yeah!/ CHUCK GREY & SANDY STANTON & THE PANICS: Push The Panic Button/ Rock
And Roll Is In My Soul/ FREDDIE HALL: Little Baby's Rock/ CLEDUS HARRISON:
Broke/ THE JAGUARS: Ginny Ginny/ CHRIS KENNER: Don't Let Her Pin That Charge
On Me/ Don't Make No Noise/ Grandma's House/ LA RENE LA RUE: I'm Glad/ SLICK
LAWRENCE: Little Mama/ ROBERT MCCOY & HIS FIVE SINS: Bye Bye Baby/ KEN
MURRAY'S BLACKOUTS OF 1959: Backstage At The Blackouts/ LLOYD PRICE: Right
Kind Of Girl/ ELLIOT SHAVERS & HIS BLAZERS: Down Home Blues/ HAROLD
"THUNDERBIRD" WARD & THE JIMMY HILL COMBO: How Wild Can A Woman Be/ ERNIE
WILLIAMS: My Pretty Baby/ RICHARD "POPCORN" WYLIE: Money
We have limited stock of this out of print compilation. 23
tracks from the 1961-63 period - Harry & The Keyatas, The Willows, The
Dynamics, The Dontells, Five Satins, Mack Starr & The Mellows, Four Buddies,
Slim & The Twilights, The Diadems, Eugene Pitt & Group, etc.
The latest in the excellent series is a collection of 27
tracks of mostly black vocal group sounds from the late 40s through the mid
50s including quite a few with a strong blues flavor. Most of the tracks are
making their first appearance on CD and includes sides by The Five Wings,
The Medallions (a previously unissued demo), The Beavers, Imperials, Maggie
Hathaway & Her Bluesmsen, Lil Greenwood & The Four Jacks, Gaynel Hodge & The
Turks, The Royal Kings, Heartbreakers, Johnny Saber & Group, Rudy West & the
Five Keys, Ella Fitzgerald & Group (an unexpected doo-wop performance from
this legendary jazz singer), The Tads (the lovely unissued Glowing Moon)
and more.
