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RHYTHM
& BLUES, SOUL & DOO-WOP
The Tokens
-> The Tymes
| THE TOKENS |
Crystal Ball 1038 |
Tonight I Fell In Love With The Tokens |
● CD $17.98 |
29 tracks, 70 mins, highly recommended
Excellent collection
of sides from the 60s and 70s by this fine, talented, versatile and long
lived vocal group. The arrangements range from straight ahead doo-wop to
Beach Boys type sound all performed with class. The recordings are mostly
from their less familiar post-RCA period and features a number of
previously unissued songs, alternate takes and demos including a fine live
acapella version of That's My Desire and an adventurous reworking
of the Everly Brothers' Cathy's Clown. There are fine covers of
vocal group classics like Little Girl Of Mine/ Get A Job/ Barbara Ann
and others. Also includes Tonight I Fell In Love/ Right Or Wrong/
Arlene/ I'll Never have To Dream Again/ Every Breath I Take/ Please Say
You Want Me, etc. Good sound, brief notes and some nice vintage photos
in booklet. (FS)
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| OSCAR TONEY, JR. |
Sundazed 11093 |
For Your Precious Love - The Bell Sessions |
● CD $16.98 |
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| ALLEN TOUSSAINT |
Bear Family BCD 15641 |
The Complete 'Tousan Sessions |
● CD $21.98 |
Bear Family hereby reissues Allen Toussaint's 1958
instrumental LP for RCA The Wild Sound Of New Orleans (LPM-1767),
and, for good measure, throws in the rare recordings he cut for the
Seville label between 1960-63. The RCA stuff is good, not great, with only
Whirlaway/ Tim Tam/ Nashua/ Pelican Parade deserving of the titular
adjective "wild." The rest is pleasant if somewhat
undistinguished despite featured artists like Alvin 'Red' Tyler on
baritone sax, Roy Montrell on guitar, and Frank Fields on bass. The
Seville material includes all four singles, a few unreleased songs, a
couple of alternate takes. The best of it is as good as the best RCA stuff
- and why not, the line up is essentially the same. Some songs suffer from
an ice rink organ sound which is far, far from wild. Excellent notes and
pics. (JC)
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| ALLEN TOUSSAINT |
Kent CDKEND 036 |
From A Whisper To A Scream |
● CD $18.98 |
Reissue of what some consider to be Allen's best solo LP -
the songs have been re-arranged so that side 1 has all the vocal sides
& 2 has the instrumentals - originally released in 1970, the music
sounds somewhat dated, but if you're a fan you'll want this - with
personnel listing, LP discography & liner notes - Sweet Touch Of Love/
What Is Success/ Chokin' Kind, etc.
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| ALLEN TOUSSAINT |
NYNO 9601 |
Connected |
● CD $17.98 |
Infused with the spirit of New Orleans - how could it not
be? - Toussaint's new album features 15 originals, combining deceptively
simple-sounding songs with complex rhythms, that can only be described as
joyous. From such sure-fingered instrumentals as Get Out Of My Life,
Woman and Funky Bars to the beauty of Sweet Dreams to
the paean to peace We're All Connected, the album has an undeniable
optimism. Added attractions include Dave Bartholomew's trumpet on Oh My,
Leo Nocentelli (ex-Meters) on All Of It, and Tricia Boutte's
vocals. Computer Lady, which takes an already weak metaphor and
jumps up and down on it, is the only sin here - the rest is instant
expiation. (JC)
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| ALLEN TOUSSAINT |
Reprise 26549 |
The Allen Toussaint Collection |
● CD $12.98 |
70's solo waxings by Toussaint, who many would claim did his
best work in the studio for other New Orleans R&B and pop artists. At
any rate, there are smooth soul senders here, particularly From A
Whisper To A Scream/ Southern Nights/ What Do You Want The Girl To Do/
Night People/ With You In My Mind - 16 total. (MB)
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| THE TRAMMPS |
Collectables 5117 |
Golden Classics |
● CD $11.98 |
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| T.N.T. TRIBBLE |
Collectables 5328 |
Volume 2 |
● CD $11.98 |
CD reissue of Krazy Kat 828. Second volume of twin trumpet
blowin' T.N.T. Tribble's great Gotham sessions from the early 50's.
Tribble and band are, by turns, swingin', jumpin' and smoky sounding.
Even the Krazy Kat sleuths are at a loss to pindown many of the band
members, including the dynamic guitar player on Red Hot Boogie , Rockin'
Mama and others, although their best guess is Mauzette Graham. 14 cuts
here, mostly unreleased. Hey Everybody/ Cadillac Blues/ TNT Stroll/ She
Walked Right In , etc. (AE)
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| THE TUNE WEAVERS/
THE BLENDS |
Official 6015 |
The Tune Weavers Meet The Blends |
● CD $18.98 |
This CD features 14 tracks by Boston based group The Tune
Weavers recorded between 1957 and 1960 featuring the lead vocals of Margo
Sylvia. Includes their only hit, the classic Happy Birthday Baby
plus I Remember Dear/ There Stands My Love/ Little Boy/ My
Congratulations Baby/ I Hear The Mission Bells, etc. There are also 9
tracks by excellent group The Blends from the early 60s - Someone To
Care/ Music, Maestro, Please/ Hey, Little Fool/ Graduation Time, etc.
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| THE TURBANS |
Castle 1003 |
These Golden Rings |
● CD $17.98 |
Fine selection of 22 tracks by this excellent Philadelphia
group, featuring the fine lead vocals of Al Banks, recorded between 1958
and 1962 including a 1961 remake of their hit When You Dance. Also
includes These Golden Rings/ I'm Not Your Fool Anymore/ All She Wants
To Do is Dance/ Clickety Clack Clack/ Do You Feel Like I Feel/ Six
Questions and others including excellent covers of doo-wop classics This
Is My Story and This Is My Story.
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| THE TURBANS |
Collectables 7511 |
The Complete Herald Recordings, Vol. 1 |
● CD $13.98 |
18 tracks including When You Dance/ Sister Sookey/ I Am
Lonely/ Miss Thing/ I'm Nobody/ All Of My Heart/ Valley Of Love, etc.
THE TURBANS: All Of My Heart/ B.i.n.g.o./ Bye And Bye/ Bye And Bye/
Congratulations/ Farewell To Arms (take 1)/ Farewell To Arms (take 3)/ I Am
Lonely/ I'll Always Watch Over You/ I'm Nobody's/ It Was A Night Like This/
Let Me Show You Around My Heart/ Miss Thing/ Sister Sookey/ The Wadda Do/
Valley Of Love/ When You Dance/ Zaki Sue
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Collectables 5107 |
Golden Classics |
● CD $11.98 |
A dozen early Sue classics, 1960-62 - It's Gonna Work Out
Fine/ A Fool In Love/ Poor Fool/ Tra La La La La/ I Idolize You (GM)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Collectables 5298 |
Dynamite! |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of Sue album - 12 storming sides - You Should'a
Treated Me Right/ A Fool In Love/ I Idolize You/ Sleepless/ Won't You
Forgive Me/ I Dig You, etc
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Collectables 5763 |
Don't Play Me Cheap |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of the duos last Sue album
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
DBK Works 530 |
The Ike & Tina Show Live, Volumes 1 & 2 |
● CD $16.98 |
22 tracks, 71 min., highly
recommended/recommended
Is it safe yet to say that while Tina was the star, Ike was more talented?
Is it sexist and politically incorrect to suggest that, as exciting as their
live show could be, actually seeing Tina perform was half the fun? Thought
so. To be sure, the show is a barely controlled frenzy of horn blasts and
guttural screams, rendered here with sound as good as it's likely to get,
but it does feel a little frantic at times (especially on volume 1), as if
the whole band needs to hurry up and catch a plane. Tracks 1-12 were
originally released on Warner Brothers (#1579) and 13-22 on the Loma label
(#5904). Volume 1 emits enough pure rock 'n' soul energy to power a former
Soviet block country for six weeks, while volume 2 is less frenetic and
better for repeated listening. Guest vocals from Jesse Smith and Vanetta
Fields. This fine release includes the original liner notes from the WB
album--quaint if useless--but lacks new notes or anything that could be
called information. (JC)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Disky 901782 |
"Live" In Paris |
● CD $11.98 |
Two CDs, 15 tracks, 66 mins, highly recommended
Previously
available on EMI at a slightly higher price, Exciting two CD set featuring
15 tracks recorded live at Paris's famed Olympia Theater in January 1971
with the Ikettes and the hot Kings Of Rhythm. The show opens with a brief
instrumental featuring Ike followed by three fine Ikettes songs and then the
"star of the show" Tina come on stage and treats to a selection of great
songs including their recent hits I Want To Take You Higher and
Proud Mary as well as Sweet Soul Music/ Come Together/ I Smell
Trouble/ Honk Tony Women/ Land Of 1000 Dances and others. This would
have easily fit on one CD but, what the heck it's still a good deal. (FS)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
EMI (Holland) 39145-2 |
The Very Best Ike & Tina Turner Album Ever |
● CD $11.98 |
23 tracks, 78 mins, highly recommended
Great collection of
some of this loving duo's finest work spanning a number of labels and
ranging from their first hit A Fool In Love from 1960 to their last
hit Baby Get It On from 1975. Other hits featured include I
Idolize You/ It's Gonna Work Out Fine (my favorite)/ Poor Fool/ You
Should'a Treated Me Right/ Proud Mary/ Come Together, the Phil Spector
written and produced River Deep-Mountain High and others. There are
also great non-hits like their take on The Stones' Honky Tonk Women,
the fine soul ballad A Love Like Yours, the Tina original Funkier
Than A Mosquita's Tweeter that sounds like it might have been written
with hubby in mind. The disc ends with great live versions of I Wanna
Take You Higher and I've Been Loving You Too Long. A winner from
beginning to end! (FS)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Fuel 2000 61181 |
The Gospel According To Ike & Tina |
● CD $15.98 $10.98 |
10 tracks, very good
Ike & Tina Turner doing a collection of traditional gospel songs? Hard to
believe but true. This is a reissue of an obscure 1973 United Artists album
with about two-thirds of the lead vocals by Tina and the rest by Ike. Tina's
vocals are particularly nice and the vocal backup is fine. Ike's vocals are
less convincing and it seems that he had just acquired a new synthesizer and
quite a few of the tracks feature electronic bleeping, blooping, gurgling
and farting that are really out of place. Includes Father Alone
(sic)/ Glory Glory/ What A Friend We Have In Jesus/ Nearer The Cross
(probably the finest track here)/ When The Saints Go Marching In,
etc. Not exactly essential Ike & Tina but worth a listen. (FS)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Kent 182 |
The Kent Years |
● CD $18.98 |
27 track collection featuring some of the great sides
recorded by the duo for Kent between 1964 and '67 including five
previously unissued.
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| IKE & TINA
TURNER REVUE |
Kent CDKEND 102 |
Live!!! |
● CD $18.98 |
18 tracks, 70 min., recommended About half the songs were
recorded live at Club Imperial and Harlem Club, St. Louis, Missouri in
1964, and feature a true taste of the I &K revue, complete with the
Kings Of Rhythm Orchestra. Jimmy Thomas, Venetta Fields, Bobby John,
Stacey Johnson, Robbie Montgomery, and Vernon Guy all step forward to do
their respective thangs. The rest of the numbers are from a 1967 show that
let Tina be her histrionic self. (Note: This was issued as a Japanese
import last year on P-Vine PCD 3029.) (JC)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Stateside 537 960-2 |
Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter |
● CD $11.98 |
21 tracks, recommended. A collection of 21 hot sides recorded
for United Artists and Liberty between 1969 and 1974. Avoiding the
frequently reissued hits this includes obscure but fine album tracks, often
with a funk flavor. Include the title song plus What You Don't See Is
Better Yet/ Young And Dumb/ I Love Baby/ Too Much Woman (For A Hen Pecked
Man)/ (Long As I Can) Get You When I Want You/ Tell The Truth/ The Chopper/
Doin' It and others. Also includes one side of the rare Ikettes single
I'm Just Not Ready For Love. (FS)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Stateside 571 492-2 |
The Soul Of Ike & Tina/ Dynamite |
● CD $16.98 |
This reissues Ike & Tina's first two albums from 1961 & 1962
plus four bonus tracks only issued as singles. Since the original second LP
duplicated half the tracks from the first this CD ends up with a total of 21
tracks. It includes most of their Sue singles hits like A Fool In Love/ I
Idolize You/ Poor Fool and Tra La La plus other fine songs like
I'm Jealous/ Letter From Turner/ Sleepless/ You're My baby/ Won't You
Forgive Me/ Mind In A Whirl, etc.
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Stateside 571 493-2 |
Don't Play Me Cheap/ It's Gonna Work Out
Fine |
● CD $16.98 |
27 tracks, 66 mins, highly recommended
Ike & Tina's last two
albums for Sue from 1963 by which time they has already left the label plus
four bonus tracks. "Don't Play Me Cheap" is a bit of an oddity - apart from
the first two tracks which were issued as singles, most of the rest find Ike
& Tina in lounge mode with swing band arrangements and strings - it doesn't
really work but has its moments of interest. "Fine" is what we expect from
Ike & Tina - tough R&B including the classic title song which was their
first and biggest hit. Other winners from this album include Gonna Find
Me A Substitute/ Mojo Queen, the Little Richard flavored rocker This
Man Is Crazy and the solid blues Foolish with some great guitar
work from Ike. The four bonus cuts are singles that never made to LP
including the great Two Is A Couple and a wonderful retelling of the
Stack--Lee and Billy story Stagger Lee & Billy. Includes 12 page
booklet with informative notes by Bob Fisher. (FS)
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Time Life 19300 |
The Ike & Tina Turner Story, 1960-1975 |
● CD $39.98 |
3 CD retrospective of the battling Turners with 49 tracks in
a handsome book format package. The first two CDs cover most of the major
recordings by the duo with the exception of their Phil Spector recordings
(due to licensing restrictions) though it does include a fine live version
of River Deep, Mountain High. It also includes the great I'm Blue
(The Gong Gong Song) by the duo's superb vocal backup group The Ikettes.
The third disc is the entire live album "In Person" originally issued in
1969 on Minit. Includes 24 page illustrated booklet.
THE IKETTES: I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)/ IKE & TINA
TURNER: A Fool For A Fool/ A Fool In Love/ A Fool In Love/ Baby Get It On/
Bold Soul Sister/ Come Together/ Don't Play Me Cheap/ Early One Morning/
Everyday People/ Feel Good/ Finger Poppin'/ Funky Street/ Get Back/ Good
Good Lovin'/ Goodbye, So Long/ Honky Tonk Women/ I Can't Believe What You
Say/ I Heard It Through The Grapevine/ I Idolize You/ I Want To Take You
Higher/ I'm Gonna Do All I Can (To Do Right By My Man)/ I'm Jealous/ I'm
Yours (Use Me Any Way You Wanna)/ I've Been Loving You Too Long/ Intro-Soul
Serenade/ It's Gonna Work Out Fine/ Medley: All I Could Do Was Cry-Please,
Please, Please-Baby, I Love You/ Medley: Gimme Some Lovin'-Sweet Soul Music/
Medley: There Was A Time-African Boo's/ Nutbush City Limits n/ Ooh Poo Pah
Doo/ Poor Fool/ Proud Mary/ Respect/ River Deep Mountain High (live)/ Sexy
Ida (Part 1)/ Something's Got A Hold On Me (live)/ Son Of A Preacher Man/
Stagger Lee and Billy/ Sweet Rhode Island Red/ Tell Her I'm Not Home/ The
Hunter/ Tra La La La La/ Two Is a Couple/ Up In Heah/ Workin' Together/ You
Shoulda Treated Me Right/ TINA TURNER: Acid Queen
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| IKE & TINA TURNER |
Universe 035 |
Portrait In Blues |
● CD $48.98 |
Three CD set featuring four complete albums issued by the
duo in the late 60s on Pompeii and Blue Thumb ("Cussin,' Cryin' And Carryin'
On", "So Fine", Outta Season" and "The Hunter") plus four bonus live tracks
and five bonus tracks featuring The Ikettes. The first two albums feature
hard driving R&B and soul and the latter two features lots of versions of
blues standards and "The Hunter" album features some great guest guitar work
from Albert Collins.
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| IKE
& TINA TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM BAND |
Collectables 5759 |
Dance |
● CD $11.98 |
12 tracks, 32 mins, highly recommended
Terrific, all
instrumental set from 1962. Tina is nowhere in sight but there's lots of
great bluesy guitar from Ike featuring some rapid fire picking and his
distinctive use of the vibrato bar. There's hot instrumental work from the
rest of the Kings including his nephew Jesse Knight on bass, Eddie Silvers
& Rasheed Ishmael on tenor sax, Marvin Warwick on baritone sax and
Mack Johnson on trumpet. The tunes are mostly dance flavored numbers like The
Gulley/ Trackdown Twist/ Prancing/ The Groove and others as well as a
great instrumental version of the Ike & Tina hit It's Gonna Work
Out Fine, an electrifying version of the country tune Steel Guitar
Rag and some Duane Eddy sounding low guitar picking on The Rooster.
Excellent notes from Bill Dahl round out a much better than average
package from Collectables. (FS)
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| TITUS TURNER |
Collectables 5160 |
Golden Classics - Soulville |
● CD $11.98 |
14 cuts produced by Bobby Robinson.
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| TITUS TURNER/ TOMMY
TUCKER |
Red Lightnin' RLCD 086 |
Titans Of R&B |
● CD $15.98 |
CD reissue of the Tommy Tucker album on Red Lightnin' (#022
- "Mother Tucker"), teamed up with 14 tracks by songwriter/ singer Titus
Turner. Turner, who sang briefly with the Count Basie band, wrote songs
for Little Willie John, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and more. Of his
mid-60's efforts here, Leave My Kitten Alone is probably his best
known, also heard as an unreleased version by "unknown English Beat
group" who sound a lot like a certain bunch of famous moptops from
Liverpool! Tommy Tucker is responsible for Hi Heel Sneakers and
other soulful blues numbers. 25 cuts in all. (MB)
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| THE TYMES |
Park 552 |
So Much In Love |
● CD $18.98 |
recommended A generous look at the ballad-heavy output of
this ultra-smooth, pop-influenced early 60's vocal group. Their repertoire
tended towards standards, particularly those recorded earlier by Johnny
Mathis, as the play list here demonstrates. Among the highlights are Chances
Are, Blue Velvet, The Way You Look Tonight, Hello
Young Lovers, The Twelfth of Never, Moonlight Cocktails,
Stranger in Paradise, Wonderful Wonderful, And That
Reminds Me, Alone, Goodnight My Love, and, of course,
their one solid hit, the title tune here. In fact, most numbers in this
collection bear a stylistic resemblance to that one hit. Sound quality is
solid. Most tracks are in stereo. And there are no notes at all. Good
spoonin' music. (DH)
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