Crossroads in Cowtown explores a period in country music history when genres were being bent and boundaries smashed. Focusing on “western” music, either produced in or influenced by Californian studios and artists of the fifties, this compilation delves into the classic hillbilly sounds of the period and revels in the oddities created when disparate styles collide in the search for commercial success. By the 1950s, the classic period for western swing had come to an end, the big bands were rapidly declining and rock & roll was in the ascendancy. Many might-have-been country singers were choosing to record rockabilly or rockabilly-influenced hillbilly styles, while western swing stars were starting to make more pop and rhythm & blues influenced (and influencing) material. Western swing had always been a composite music, built from elements of jazz and blues, old-time cowboy and fiddle tunes, and the polkas and waltzes of the old countries. Now, in the fifties, this heady musical cocktail was being produced in state-of-the-art recording studios and was taking on the lustre of the more pop-oriented productions of the time.
trax:
1. Take It Away, Leon - Leon McAuliffe 2. Idaho Red - Wade Ray 3. The Devil In Me - Billy Strange 4. It'd Surprise You - Rosalie Allen 5. Car Hoppin' Mama - Hawkshaw Hawkins 6. I Don't Mind - Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys 7. Do You Love Me? - Eddy Arnold & Jaye P Morgan 8. Rock Love - Nita, Rita & Ruby 9. Lie Detector - Arlie Duff & Anita Kerr Singers 10. Boom Boom Boomerang - Tom Tall & Ginny Right 11. Kiss Me Big Tennessee - Ernie Ford & Jack Fasciato 12. Rhumba Boogie - Spade Cooley 13. You Played On My Piano - Hank Penny & Jaye P Morgan 14. Barracuda - Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra, Billy Strange & Speedy West 15. Catty Town - Pee Wee King & His Band & Dick Glasser 16. Stop Whistlin' Wolf - The Maddox Brothers & Rose 17. Real Gone Jive - The Nettles Sisters & The Rodeo Tune Wranglers 18. Cadillac In Model "A" - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys 19. Deep South - Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills 20. Night Train To Memphis - Red Foley & Roberta Lee 21. Hillbilly Fever - Spade Cooley, Ginny Jackson & Les Anderson 22. Bloodshot Eyes - Hank Penny 23. Hangover Boogie - Bob Newman 24. Done Gone Crazy - Lee Bonds
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"Crossroads In Cowtown"
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Thank you for this fine offering
Gaius, Yes please to the ML and Windbreakers. Thanks in advance
BONUS 1 OF 8 @320
Here Come The Girls, Vol. 4: You Can Be Wrong About Boys
First, some housekeeping: what is actually volume four in the outstanding Here Comes the Girls series officially bears the confusing title You Can Be Wrong About Boys, Vol. 1 -- regardless, it's another stellar entry, returning to the Pye label vaults for 20 more girl group classics from the heyday of the British Invasion. Series standouts the Breakaways lead off with another should-have-been smash, "He Doesn't Love Me," while another favorite, "Polly Brown," delivers a remarkably Dionne Warwick-like turn on Pickettywitch's lovely "There He Goes." The 1966 Jan Panter obscurity "Scratch My Back," meanwhile, is a complete anomaly, distinguished by its fuzz-soaked guitar riff and nursery rhyme lyrical scheme; Barbara Ruskin's "Well How Does It Feel" could have served as the template for "I Got You, Babe," and on the wonderful "Pay You Back With Interest," Dana Gillespie's bold vocals eerily prefigure Chrissie Hynde. Terrific stuff throughout. (jason Ankeny, Allmusic)
If you love female vocalists and pop rock tracks from the 1960's and early 1970's - you just have to own this series. While not every track is a forgotten gem, there are ZERO uninteresting tracks. Every track features heartfelt performances and great musicianship. From the Brill/Wall of Sound (alike) girly girl vocals of the early 1960's to Mersey pop beat to sunshiney pop to pop folk to the brassy belters of the 1960's - it's all fun, it's all cool and it's amazing how great and how most of it has been forgotten by 99% of music fans. This entire set deserves a beautiful box & book to go with it all and it's something everyone who loves pop & female singers absolutely have to own. (Shindig)
1
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The Breakaways
He Doesn't Love Me
2
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Sharon Tandy
I've Found Love
3
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Dana Gillespie
Pay You Back With Interest
4
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Peanut (4)
Thank Goodness For The Rain
5
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Dee King
It's So Fine
6
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Petula Clark
Where Am I Going
7
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Mally Page
You Can Be Wrong About Boys
8
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Tammy St John
He's The One For Me
9
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Maxine Darren
Don't You Know
10
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Dodie West
Thinking Of You
11
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Barbara Ruskin
Well How Does It Feel
12
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Tawny Reed
You Can't Take It Away
13
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Margo & The Marvettes
When Love Slips Away
14
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Pickettywitch
There He Goes
15
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Anita Harris
London Life
16
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Martha Smith
As I Watch You Walk Away
17
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Julie Grant
Lonely Without You
18
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Britt*
You Really Have Started Something
19
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Barbara Kay
Someone Has To Cry (Why Must I)
20
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Paper Dolls
My Life (Is In You Hands)
21
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Nita Rossi
Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You)
22
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Jan Panter
Scratch My Back
23
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Angela And The Fans
Love Ya Illya
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BONUS 2 OF 8 @320
The Creation - Action Painting (Numero Group 2017)
Biff! A violin bow scrapes across the strings of a guitar Bang! The hiss of a an aerosol can releases paint on to canvas Pow! As the violin bow pierces the canvas. Presented here for the first time are the complete Creation studio recordings. All 42 tracks (CD version) have been remastered from the original tapes by Shel Talmy, and given fresh stereo mixes where previously unavailable. New essays by Dean Rudland and Alec Palao tell the band's story and dive into their complete studio sessions. Scores of previously unpublished photographs adorn the accompanying 80 page hard bound book (CD version). We've rounded the whole package out with four tracks by pre-Creation freakbeat quartet the Mark Four, making Action Painting the definitive collection of this legendary UK band.
Disc: 1
1. Making Time
2. Try And Stop Me
3. Painter Man
4. Biff, Bang, Pow
5. Sylvette (edit)
6. If I Stay Too Long
7. Nightmares
8. Life Is Just Beginning
9. Through My Eyes
10. How Does It Feel To Feel
11. Tom Tom
12. Can I Join Your Band
13. Midway Down
14. The Girls Are Naked
15. Bonie Maronie
16. Mercy Mercy Mercy
17. For All That I Am
18. Uncle Bert
19. Cool Jerk
20. I Am The Walker
21. Ostrich Man
22. Sweet Helen
23. How Does It Feel To Feel (US version)
Disc: 2
1. Hurt Me If You Will
2. I'm Leaving
3. Work All Day (Sleep All Night)
4. Going Down Fast
5. How Does It Feel To Feel (US version - New Stereo Mix)
6. Biff, Bang, Pow New Stereo Mix)
7. For All That I Am (New Stereo Mix)
8. Can I Join Your Band (New Stereo Mix)
9. Through My Eyes (New Stereo Mix)
10. Tom Tom (New Stereo Mix)
11. Midway Down (New Stereo Mix)
12. Nightmares (New Stereo Mix)
13. Life Is Just Beginning (New Stereo Mix)
14. Painter Man (New Stereo Mix)
15. If I Stay Too Long (New Stereo Mix)
16. How Does It Feel To Feel (UK version - New Stereo Mix)
17. Cool Jerk (New Stereo Mix)
18. Hey Joe (New Stereo Mix)
19. Like A Rolling Stone (New Stereo Mix)
20. Making Time (Instrumental)
21. Sylvette (full length)
22. Instrumental 1
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BONUS 3 OF 8 @320 (Pt. 1)
Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman + Warm and Tender Soul (1966) Edsel 2016 Remastered
“Percy Sledge is the most dynamic new soul singer to arrive on the record scene in years,” wrote Bob Rolontz on the original liner notes to the artist’s 1966 Atlantic debut When a Man Loves a Woman.
That LP, of course, was titled for the song that took the balladeer to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts right out of the gate and yielded him the No. 20 record of the year, sandwiched between Tommy James and the Shondells and The Rolling Stones. Though Percy Sledge (1940-2015) never topped the heights of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ he left behind a small yet vital discography for Atlantic between 1966 and 1970. His output for the label has just been revisited by Edsel on a new three-volume series pairing When a Man Loves a Woman/Warm and Tender Soul on one CD …The Percy Sledge Way/Take Time to Know Her on two CDs; and My Special Prayer with Singles and Rarities on two CDs. All three volumes in the series also contain bonus tracks, for a complete look at Sledge’s Atlantic studio recordings.
When a Man Loves a Woman (U.S. No. 37 Pop/No. 2 R&B) was the long-playing debut from the Alabama-born singer. With an attractive high tenor and natural vocal warmth, Sledge offered an alternative to the impassioned shouters on the Atlantic roster such as Wilson Pickett or Otis Redding. (Pickett’s Atlantic discography is also the subject of a new series from Edsel; watch this space for more details soon!) Recorded at NORALA Studios with producer/studio owner Quin Ivy, “When a Man Loves a Woman” wasn’t the first hit record to come out of Muscle Shoals, but it was certainly the biggest to that point, and introduced Sledge’s country-soul style. Muscle Shoals mainstay Dan Penn contributed a pair of tunes to the LP, “You Fooled Me” and “Success” – the latter co-written with Percy’s producer Quin Ivy. Percy also covered tunes popularized by Joe Simon (“My Adorable One”) and Deon Jackson (“Love Makes the World Go Round”) in his atypically smooth southern-soul style.
The May 1966 release of When a Man Loves a Woman was followed just five months later, in October, with Warm and Tender Soul (No. 9 R&B/No. 137 Pop). Its tunestack was even more diverse. On it, Sledge revived Joe Haywood’s “Warm and Tender Love” (a song which bore so much of a relation to “My Adorable One” that the songwriters of the Joe Simon hit successfully sued for credit), scoring a No. 17 Pop/No. 5 R&B single. He tackled Motown on a laidback version of Smokey Robinson’s immortal “You Really Got a Hold on Me.” Future Motown superstar Edwin Starr’s “Oh How Happy” got the Sledge treatment, as did the Brill Building pop of Goffin and King’s “So Much Love.” He also brought a sweet flair to Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” and put his own stamp on “Try a Little Tenderness,” which Otis Redding released as a single at roughly the same time (November ’66). Otis might have owned the song from that point forward, but Percy’s rendition is more than creditable. Dan Penn was represented again with “It Tears Me Up,” a No. 7 R&B hit that also became Percy’s final top 20 Pop entry. Similarly, Warm and Tender Soul was his final top ten entry on the R&B Albums chart. Edsel’s two-fer adds four bonus cuts including the rare remake of “When a Man Loves a Woman” (not issued until 1998), a couple of non-LP singles, and “(With) Every Beat of My Heart,” an outtake from Warm and Tender Soul that first surfaced in 1974.
BONUS 3 OF 8 @320 (Pt. 2)
Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman + Warm and Tender Soul (1966) Edsel 2016 Remastered
When a Man Loves a Woman/Warm and Tender Soul (Edsel EDSA 5063, 2016)
1 When a Man Loves a Woman
2 My Adorable One
3 Put a Little Lovin’ on Me
4 Love Me All the Way
5 When She Touches Me (Nothing Else Matters)
6 Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
7 Thief in the Night
8 You Fooled Me
9 Love Makes the World Go Round
10 Success
11 Love Me Like You Mean It
12 It Tears Me Up
13 I’m Hanging Up My Heart for You
14 You Really Got a Hold on Me
15 That’s How Strong My Love Is
16 A Sweet Woman Like You
17 Love Me Tender
18 Warm and Tender Love
19 Try a Little Tenderness
20 So Much Love
21 I Stand Accused
22 Heart of a Child
23 Oh How Happy
24 When a Man Loves a Woman (Remake) (rec. March 1966, first issued 1998)
25 Sugar Puddin’ (Atlantic single 45-2341)
26 You’ve Got That Something Wonderful (Atlantic single 45-2383)
27 (With) Every Beat of My Heart (from The Golden Voice of Soul, Atlantic (Germany) LP K 20085, 1974)
Tracks 1-11 from When a Man Loves a Woman, Atlantic LP SD-8125, 1966
Tracks 12-23 from Warm and Tender Soul, Atlantic LP SD-8132, 1966
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BONUS 4 OF 8 @320
Percy Sledge - My Special Prayer (1968) + Singles and Rarities (1969-1972) Edsel 2016 Remastered
The 2-CD set The Percy Sledge Way/Take Time to Know Her pairs Percy’s third and fourth U.S. albums, from July 1967 and May 1968, respectively. The Percy Sledge Way was recorded at NORALA, renamed Quinvy Studios, following sessions at nearby FAME that yielded a clutch of singles included on CD 1 of this set as bonus tracks. As the title indicated, this album leaned even heavier on covers of soul classics, “the Percy Sledge way.” Sledge tackled Dan Penn’s timeless “The Dark End of the Street,” then a recent hit for James Carr, as well as favorites associated with Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Aaron Neville, William Bell, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, and others inside and outside of the Atlantic family. The label pulled no singles from the LP, however, and it failed to chart on the R&B survey. It cracked the Billboard 200 at No. 178. Follow-up album Take Time to Know Her was named for the No. 11 Pop hit which proved to be Percy’s biggest hit on the Hot 100 since “When a Man Loves a Woman.” It would also be his final top 20 single. Tracks were recorded to fill out an album around the hit single, including Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham’s “Feed the Flame,” Bobby Russell’s “Take Time,” and a couple of pop covers: a faithful take on The Classics IV’s “Spooky” and a delicate, organ-drenched rendition of The Fleetwoods’ “Come Softly to Me.” The album made No. 27 R&B/No. 148 Pop. Three single versions round out this disc.
The Percy Sledge Way/Take Time to Know Her (Edsel EDSK 7116, 2016)
CD 1: The Percy Sledge Way (Atlantic LP SD 8146, 1967) plus bonus tracks
1 The Dark End of the Street
2 You Send Me
3 I Had a Talk with My Woman
4 What Am I Living For
5 I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
6 Tell It Like It Is
7 My Special Prayer
8 Drown in My Own Tears
9 Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)
10 Pledging My Love
11 You Don’t Miss Your Water
12 Little Girl (from Atlantic LP SD 9210)
13 Behind Every Great Man, There’s a Woman (Atlantic single 45-2453)
14 It Can’t Be Stopped (Atlantic single 45-2396)
15 It’s Hard to Believe (Atlantic single 45-2434)
16 Just Out of Reach (Single Version) (Atlantic single 45-2434)
CD 2: Take Time to Know Her (Atlantic LP SD 8180, 1968) plus bonus tracks
1 Take Time to Know Her
2 Feed the Flame
3 Sudden Stop
4 Come Softly to Me
5 Spooky
6 Out of Left Field
7 Cover Me
8 Baby Help Me
9 It’s All Wrong But It’s All Right
10 High Cost of Leaving
11 Between These Arms
12 I Love Everything About You
13 It’s All Wrong But It’s All Right (Single Version) (Atlantic single 45-2490)
14 Sudden Stop (Single Version) (Atlantic single 45-2539)
15 Between These Arms (Single Version) (Atlantic single 45-2539)
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BONUS 5 OF 8 @320 (Pt. 1)
Percy Sledge - The Percy Sledge Way (1967) + Take Time to Know Her (1968) Edsel 2016 Remastered
With Percy’s sales on the wane, Atlantic lost confidence in the artist. In 1969, his lone album release was The Best of Percy Sledge, and no further studio albums materialized during his time on the label. However, his international popularity remained high in locations as far-flung as South Africa. (Two South African-only albums are not included in this studio-recording-only series: The Percy Sledge Show, featuring a 20-minute live set plus performances from other local artists; and Percy Sledge in South Africa, consisting of original recordings overdubbed with audience applause and linked with new introductions from the artist.) The Netherlands was another popular locale for the artist, and in 1970, the Dutch arm of Atlantic issued My Special Prayer. This 14-track LP rounded up numerous U.S. non-album singles plus four previously unreleased tracks. That set, featuring covers of Burt Bacharach (“Any Day Now”), The Bee Gees (“I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”), Buffalo Springfield (“Kind Woman”) and The Everly Brothers (“Let It Be Me”) among its tracks, is joined on Disc One of this 2-CD set with six bonus tracks from 1968 originally released on U.S. singles and in South Africa.
The second disc of this final package in Edsel’s series, Singles and Rarities, boasts 21 additional bonus tracks circa 1969-1972, originally issued in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Some of these cuts didn’t premiere until Rhino Handmade’s 2010 box set The Atlantic Recordings. This disc is as varied and rewarding as the original albums, including Percy’s Christmas single “Silent Night” b/w “My Christmas Wish for You” (a hit in the Netherlands and South Africa), more songs by Dan Penn (“Love is a Job,” “Faithful and True,” “Rainbow Road”) and covers of Wilson Pickett, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, and Gordon Lightfoot. The set concludes with a thoroughly modern Percy via “Sunshine” b/w “Unchanging Love,” both sides of a Philadelphia-produced single by Phil Hurtt and Bunny Sigler. Phil Kinrade has remastered all tracks. — SecondDisc
BONUS 5 OF 8 @320 (Pt. 2)
Percy Sledge - The Percy Sledge Way (1967) + Take Time to Know Her (1968) Edsel 2016 Remastered
My Special Prayer/Singles and Rarities (Edsel EDSK 7113, 2016)
CD 1: My Special Prayer (Atlantic (Netherlands) LP 588 220, 1970) plus bonus tracks
1 True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
2 Push Mr. Pride Aside
3 Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
4 Baby, Baby, Baby
5 Love’s Where Life Begins
6 Blow Out the Sun
7 I Gotta Get a Message to You
8 My Special Prayer
9 Set Me Free
10 Kind Woman
11 Cotton Mill Man
12 Keep Your Arms Around Me
13 Let It Be Me
14 Many Rivers to Cross
15 Self-Preservation (Atlantic single 45-2563, 1968)
16 You’re All Around Me (Atlantic single 45-2563, 1968)
17 Wanted (from Atlantic (South Africa) LP SD 9210, 1969)
18 Bless Your Sweet Little Soul (Atlantic single 45-2594, 1969)
19 The Angels Listened In (Atlantic single 45-2616, 1969)
20 Standing on the Mountain (Atlantic single 45-2848, 1972)
CD 2: More Bonus Tracks
1 Push Mr. Pride Aside (Single Version) (Atlantic single 45-2719, 1970)
2 Woman of the Night (Atlantic single 45-2646, 1969)
3 Faithful and True (Atlantic single 45-2679, 1969)
4 Silent Night (Atlantic (Netherlands) single 548 310, 1969)
5 My Christmas Wish for You (Atlantic (Netherlands) single 548 310, 1969)
6 Stop the World Tonight (Atlantic single 45-2826, 1970)
7 Help Me Make It Through the Night (Atlantic single 45-2754, 1970)
8 Love is a Job (rec. 1971, issued on The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade RHM 526138, 2010)
9 That’s the Way I Want to Live My Life (Atlantic single 45-2826, 1971)
10 Life’s Little Ups and Downs (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic (Netherlands) single K 20085, 1974)
11 What I Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Me (rec. 1971, issued on The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade RHM 526138, 2010)
12 I Found a Love (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic (Netherlands) single K 20085, 1974)
13 Time (rec. 1971, issued on The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade RHM 526138, 2010)
14 Everything You’ll Ever Need (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic single 45-2886, 1972)
15 Sunday Brother (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic single 45-2886, 1972)
16 Rainbow Road (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic single 45-2848, 1972)
17 Here I Am (rec. 1971, issued on Atlantic (Netherlands) single K 20085, 1974)
18 You Can Always Get It Where You Got It (rec. 1971, issued on The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade RHM 526138, 2010)
19 Same Old Loverman (rec. 1971, issued on The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade RHM 526138, 2010)
20 Sunshine (rec. 1972, issued on Atlantic single 45-2963, 1973)
21 Unchanging Love (rec. 1972, issued on Atlantic single 45-2963, 1973)
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BONUS 6 OF 8 @320 (Pt. 1)
Chess Soul: A Decade Of Chicago's Finest 1962-1972
One of the greatest re-issue CD's ever made. An absolutely amazing retrospective of the more mainstream-leaning sounds coming out of Chicago’s Chess Records. This collection is one of the best CD re-issues ever released and something that should not be taken for granted, as the rich musical heritage of Chess Records is presented here in great sound and several tracks debuting in Stereo for the first time anywhere. Disc One is particularly great and, with the exception of Jan Bradley’s “Mama Didn’t Lie,” the sound is superb. In 2008 a vault fire destroyed most of Chess/Checker Records master tapes and multitrack tapes, so this two-disc set preserved a great deal of the best soul and pop tracks recorded at historical Chess Records.
Several tracks from Disc Two are actually recorded at Muscle Shoals, were they did not have multitrack recording until late 1967…and therefore quite a few more are mono…but the sound is still really great on quite a few of the mono-only tracks, particularly Laura Lee’s “Dirty Man,” and Maurice and Mac’s “You Left the Water Running.” Disc One is almost entirely stereo.
Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure’s “Don’t Mess Up A Good Thing” is given a brand new stereo mix for this collection, and it has never sounded better. You also get Minnie Riperton’s debut solo 45, under the alias Andrea Davis, ‘Lonely Girl’ in stereo. The music is great, a lot of fantastic horn-playing and close harmony. Much more of a Jazz-influenced soul output than the grittier Bluesier output of Atlantic and Stax/Volt (which is ironic given how much great Blues was created at Chess). Highly recommended for any fan of 1960’s music, or music in general. Many of the tracks (especially on the first disc) are some of the greatest songs of the 1960's. (The Soul Detective)
While Chess made numerous legendary contributions to the fields of blues and rock & roll, its reputation as a major mover and shaker in the soul field from 1962 to 1972 is unassailed. This 2-CD, 45-track compilation is another excellent entry in the Chess 50th Anniversary Series and shows why the label had the Windy City almost sewn up when it came to brand-name artists and material. Whether the tracks were master purchases from a smaller Chicago or Southern label (Jan Bradley's "Mama Didn't Lie," Cookie and the Cupcakes' "I've Been So Lonely," the Kolettes' "Who's That Girl?," Big Maybelle's "Don't Pass Me By" or Denise LaSalle's "A Love Reputation") or in-house productions from Billy Davis and Leonard Caston, next to Stax or Atlantic, no one stood for soul music in the 1960s like Chess Records. Featuring the label's strong hitmakers and soul shouters Etta James (the devastating "Only Time Will Tell"), Billy Stewart (the scat classic "Summertime"), Fontella Bass ("Rescue Me"), Gene Chandler ("I Fooled You This Time"), Mitty Collier ("I'm Satisfied") and Sugar Pie DeSanto ("Soulful Dress") alongside isolated moments of Chi-Town brilliance (the Radiants' "Voice Your Choice," the Knight Brothers' "Temptation 'Bout to Get Me" and Tony Clarke's "The Entertainer") with early Muscle Shoals productions thrown in to give the big picture (Laura Lee's "Dirty Man," Maurice and Mac's "You Left the Water Running"), this is one very potent two-disc anthology and an essential addition to anyone's soul collection. (Cub Koda, Allmusic)
BONUS 6 OF 8 @320 (Pt.2)
Chess Soul: A Decade Of Chicago's Finest 1962-1972
1 Jan Bradley Mama Didn't Lie [1962]
2 Billy Stewart Strange Feeling [1963]
3 Cookie & The Cupcakes I've Been So Lonely [1963]
4 Sugar Pie DeSanto Soulful Dress [1964]
5 Johnny Nash Love Ain't Nothin' (But A Monkey On Your Back) [1964]
6 The Kolettes Who's That Guy ? [1964]
7 Tony Clark Ain't Love Good, Ain't Love Proud [1964]
8 Mitty Collier I Had A Talk With My Man [1964]
9 The Gems I Can't Help Myself [1964]
10 Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure Don't Mess Up A Good Thing [1964]
11 The Radiants Voice Your Choice [1964]
12 Jackie Ross Selfish One [1964]
13 Tony Clark The Entertainer [1964]
14 Billy Stewart I Do Love You [1964]
15 James Phelps Love Is A Five Letter Word [1965]
16 Fontella Bass The Soul Of A Man [1965]
17 The Knight Brothers Temptation 'Bout To Get Me [1965]
18 Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto Do I Make Myself Clear ? [1965]
19 Jackie Ross Take Me For A Little While [1965]
20 The Valentinos What About Me ? [1965]
21 Mitty Collier I'm Satisfied [1965]
22 Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces Searcing For My Love [1965]
23 Etta James Only Time Will Tell [1965]
1 Fontella Bass Rescue Me [1965]
2 Bobby McClure I'm Not Ashamed [1965]
3 Jo Ann Garrett Stay By My Side [1966]
4 Billy Young Have Pity On Me [1966]
5 Ramsey Lewis Wade In The Water [1966]
6 Gene Chandler I Fooled You This Time [1966]
7 Big Maybelle Don't Pass Me By [1966]
8 Andrea Davis Lonely Girl [1966]
9 Gene Chandler To Be A Lover [1966]
10 Barbara Carr Don't Knock Me [1966]
11 Eddie & Ernie I Believe She Will [1966]
12 Marlena Shaw Mercy, Mercy, Mercy [1967]
13 Denise LaSalle A Love Reputation [1967]
14 Laura Lee Dirty Man [1967]
15 Fred Hughes I Can't Make It Without You [1967]
16 The Radiants Hold On [1967]
17 Irma Thomas Good To Me [1967]
18 Maurice & Mac You Left The Water Running [1968]
19 The Dells Oh What A Day [1969]
20 Little Milton Baby, I Love You [1969]
21 Etta James Losers Weepers [1970]
22 The Dells Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation [1972]
1962-1965 CD1
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BONUS 7 OF 8 @320
Starry Eyed and Laughing - Forever Young (1974 studio and radio sessions) 2014
If you’re not familiar with the band but enjoy The Byrds, McGuinn, Crosby, Poco, or early '70s country rock in general then you really should check it out.
A brand new collection of tracks comprising songs recorded before Starry Eyed And Laughing's first official LP, together with Radio Session tracks.
Featuring a number of cover songs suggested by producer Dan Loggins - (before it was decided that their 1st album would be all original songs) - including Dylan's 'Forever Young', after which this collection is appropriately titled, Michael Nesmith's 'Propinquity' and Roger McGuinn's 'I'm So Restless' amongst others ... and several unreleased Iain Whitmore songs including 'Miles Away', '(Just Like) A Weepy Movie' and 'So Tired'.
1 Forever Young (Bob Dylan) 3:54
2 I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn) 3:24
3 Miles Away (Whitmore) 3:15
4 Dancing Slow (Poole) 4:06
5 Givin' You The Blues (Whitmore) 3:31
6 Another You (McGeeney) 2:33
7 Jet Plane Rider (Poole) 4:07
8 4 + 20 (Stephen Stills) 2:54
9 (Just Like) A Weepy Movie (Whitmore) 3:50
10 Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) 3:32
11 Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care) (Michael Nesmith) 3:10
12 I Thought I Was A Child (Jackson Browne) 3:26
13 So Tired (Whitmore) 3:45
14 In The Madness (Electric Version) (McGeeney) 2:54
15 He Was A Friend Of Mine (Roger McGuinn) 2:45
16 Strangers All Over Again (Poole) 3:34
17 Meet Me Lord (At The Bottom Of The Hill) (McGeeney-Poole-Lawrence) 3:15
18 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Bob Dylan) 2:57
19. Echoes (Roger McGuinn)
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INFO
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BONUS 8 OF 8 @320
The Happenings - The Happenings '66 & Psycle '67 (2003 Remastered Reissue)
This current set contains their first two albums making CD debut, with many rare b-sides and album tracks, and is recommended to all Happenings fans.
The Happenings are best-known for their hit single "See You in September," which is a sunny slice of sunshine pop featuring happy, bouncy vocals and intricate harmonies reminiscent of great white doo wop groups like the Four Seasons and the Tokens, who were not-so-coincidentally the Happenings' mentors and producers. Collectables has reissued both of the Happenings' records on one disc: 1966's The Happenings and 1967's Psycle. Both discs feature the stunning vocal gymnastics of their hit single and their updated doo wop sound coated with an easy listening gloss of strings on a not-very-thick Wall of Sound. (Tim Sendra, Allmusic)
The '60s pop outfit the Happenings enjoyed a three-year run of several hit singles late in the decade. Formed in 1961 in Patterson, NJ, the group has seen their lineup change from time to time, but founding member/lead singer Bob Miranda has been a constant member through it all. Soon after, the Happenings began scoring hit singles, including such number ones as "See You in September" and "I Got Rhythm," as well as other moderate hits ("Go Away Little Girl," "My Mammy," and "Girl on a Swing," among others). In addition to their singles, the Happenings issued several full-length recordings, including 1966's self-titled debut, 1967's Psycle, and 1969's Piece of Mind, performed on such popular TV shows as The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, The Smothers Brothers Show, and The Merv Griffin Show, and shared the concert stage alongside such notables as the Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Joan Rivers, John Denver, the Drifters, and the Kingston Trio, among others. (Billboard)
LP “THE HAPPENINGS” (B.T. Puppy BTPS-1001)(1966):
01 See You in September (B.T. Puppy 45-520)(a-side, BB Pop 3(2)/July 1966; RW 1/1966)*their biggest hit
02 Tonight I Fell in Love
03 Girl on a Swing (B.T. Puppy 45-544)(uncharted a-side, 1968)
04 If You Love Me, Really Love Me
05 What To Do
06 You’re Coming On Strong, Babe
07 Go Away Little Girl (B.T. Puppy 45-522)(a-side, BB Pop 12/October 1966)*#1 hit for Steve Lawrence in 1963 and Donny Osmond in 1971
08 The Same Old Story
09 Sealed With A Kiss (B.T. Puppy 45-542)(uncharted a-side, May 1968)*#3 hit for Brian Hyland in 1962
10 You’re In A Bad Way (B.T. Puppy 45-527)(b-side, April 1967)
11 Girls On The Go (B.T. Puppy 45-517)(uncharted a-side, April 1966)
12 Tea Time (B.T. Puppy 45-522)(b-side, October 1966)*CD debut
LP “PSYCLE” (B.T. Puppy BTPS-1003)(1967):
13 I Got Rhythm (B.T. Puppy 45-527)(a-side, BB Pop 3(3)/April 1967; CB 1/1967)*#5 hit for Red Nichols in 1931
14 Why Do Fools Fall in Love (B.T. Puppy 45-532)(a-side, BB Pop 41/September 1967)*#6 hit for Frankie Lymon in 1956
15 That Cold Feeling
16 Down Down Down
17 Growing Old (Lord, I Must Be Growin’ Old)
18 I Believe in Nothing (B.T. Puppy 45-530)(b-side, July 1967)
19 My Mammy (B.T. Puppy 45-530)(a-side, BB Pop 13/July 1967)#1 hit for Paul Whiteman in 1921 and later #2 hit for Al Jolson in 1928
20 When I Lock My Door (B.T. Puppy 45-538)(b-side, February 1968)*CD debut
21 I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
22 When the Summer is Through (B.T. Puppy 45-532)(b-side, September 1967)
23 Every Year About This Time
24 Bye Bye Blackbird
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INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-happenings-psycle-mw0000018779
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Gyro1966: Hi! Thanks muchly for Chess Soul; A Decade Of Chicago's Finest 1965-1970. I have been looking for it to complete my Mod Top 100! THANK YOU!
Thx GYRO 1966 for the Starry Eyed... - cheers, aoxomoxoa7
Gyro, thank you for sharing, Chess Soul and The Happenings...great.
Gyro, many thanks for some crackin' bonus material.
cheers,ELtel
Thanks
Thanks, Gyro, for the Percy Sledge.
Thanx for any and all Chess/Checker/Cadet soul or gospel.
Many many thanks to Gyro for the Soul goods
Gyro1966:
Thanks for Starry Eyed and Laughing. I'm not much of a Byrds fan, but I certainly hear the influence and thoroughly enjoyed your 2 disc post a day or two ago.
Now I'm excited to listen to Chess Soul.
Everyday is a good day in the Twilight Zone!
@ Gyro
thanks for all the Percy Sledge and for Chess soul comp
thankyou gyro for chess soul-brilliant drop!
appreciated!
Many thanks for Chess Soul!
Hello Gyro,
Thanks so much for Starry Eyed and Laughing - Forever Young
Chris
Thank you for the new Creation mixes, Gyro. A stereo remaster has been long overdue. I was surprised to see Numero Group behind the effort. All of their releases are top quality. This might be one I end up buying as well.
And thanks for the Percy Sledge and the Chess collection as well!
Thanks Gyro for the Chess Soul collection and The Happenings.
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