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The Vibrations
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Mind: Gonna Get Along Without You At present/ The Vibrations
Gonna
According to one of my favorite books ever, THE NORTHERN SOUL PRICE GUIDE, this white characterization promo, in mint status, easily goes for £fifty. Fun reading, but the real deal price guide these days is Popsike.com. There yous get the past several years worth of final sale amounts for whatever record that commanded $25 or more. According to the site, a $52 May 2012 winning bid for the wlp of 'Gonna Become Along Without You At present' was it's highest in iii years. That's as far as the data goes dorsum.
Therefore my £24 (approximately $37) win was indeed a bargain when compared to the prices set in the guide. Never mind, this unmarried'southward a deal at £100 if truth be told.
Having tastes that always ran toward the mid chart, or better however, flop follow-ups, too my parallel fondness was for the seemingly second sectionalization players. Only equally Inez & Charlie Foxx sat sideline when Ike & Tina Turner were in attain, so also did The Vibrations when say, The Temptations were effectually. Co-ordinate to the mainstream that is, merely in my earth, I coveted whatever unmarried by either.
It's seriously hard to recollect a song attempted in more than diverse styles through the years than this. Country, reggae, alternative, disco, ska, Euro-trip the light fantastic toe, stone steady and even Latin via Trini Lopez, which is version that kickoff introduced me to the rails. No idea why his was played so heavily in upstate New York at the time ('67). Trust me, information technology wasn't frequently a #93 BILLBOARD height meant a record got hammered by both our local Top 40′s. And it'south not like at that place was a Latin scene going on in subzero Syracuse that winter either.
Unfortunately, The Vibrations' version never graced my ears while electric current in '66. Years afterward I stumbled on it, unable to ignore any Okeh unmarried with their Cadbury purple labels and matching sleeves. One play and boom, the amphetamine mess of an arrangement and speed pitched chorus made me a fan for life.
Wilbert Harrison One Human Ring / Prince La La / Derek Martin
Monday, December 30th, 2013
THE SUE SOUL BROTHERS / Various Artists:
SIDE 1:
Listen: Allow'due south Work Together (Parts 1 & 2) / Wilbert Harrison One Man Band
WilbertWorkTogether.mp3
Side 2:
Listen: She Put The Hurt On Me / Prince La La
She
Listen: Daddy Rollin' Stone / Derek Martin
Daddy
Just check my previous ii posts. Not hard to guess, I've been picking through the various artists section of my wall shelf.
Weirdly enough, this is usually a head scratching process. I don't do it often, but every time seems to unearth a multi-creative person tape, usually an EP, that I'd never really noticed before, suddenly falling into the 'where on earth did I get this from' category. And honestly, it happens every single fourth dimension. One source, the United kingdom weeklies, who for a few years there during the late 80′s/early ninety′s were including free EP's, whether it be NME, Music Week or Melody Maker, with each issue. I religiously grabbed every ane and stuck them in that VA section for a rainy twenty-four hours. The entire clamper now being a treasure trove of both obscure and focus tracks.
When the Ensign characterization got all hot and bothered about the Sue Records catalog, which I'm guessing they could suddenly access via their 1983 Island distribution bargain, they issued a serial of four song EP's religiously honoring the labels iconic history. Some were unmarried artist compilation EP'southward by Ike & Tina Turner or Inez & Charlie Foxx. Others were theme centric: SUE INSTRUMENTALS, THE SUE SOUL SISTERS and this, the latter's partner, THE SUE SOUL BROTHERS. I played all three in the past few hours and basically did a blindfold drill to choose today'south 31 Days Of Dec – All EP's post.
THE SUE SOUL BROTHERS, well-nigh likely by design, builds around much covered songs from Sue's Uk catalog. And there were many songs to choose from here, non forgetting, the Sue Uk label issued the American Sue releases along with various blues and RnB singles from small and indie US labels. Initially, Juggy Murray, who owned Sue in the U.s.a. was reportedly furious with Chris Blackwell and Guy Stevens, the twenty-four hour period to day guy at Island/Sue in London. Plainly, neither had cleared the idea of picking up product from other Usa companies and slapping a Sue label on it for the United kingdom.
As a result, other than the bothersome bad blood, Sue'southward British catalog and discography rivaled the majors like Decca'southward, who bolstered their output and image by repping Atlantic, Monument, Tribe, RCA, Coral and others in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Island became the trivial indie that could, fifty-fifty harder in the 60′s, when pond against the tide of Decca, CBS, EMI and Pye was near incommunicable.
And so, the team at Ensign picked some solid originals here that went on to become widely pop every bit covers. Loads of bands, including The Who and John's Children released Derek Martin's 'Daddy Rollin' Stone' during the Modernistic era.
Canned Estrus, blues experts themselves, took Wilbert Harrison's 'Let's Piece of work Together' Acme 40 in 1970, delaying their version to give the original a take a chance to sell and reach #32 on BILLBOARD. In a loose total circumvolve concatenation of events, John Mayall chose to record Wilbert Harrison's 'Let's Work Together' for his fantastic, and I do mean fantastic, Island album, A SENSE OF PLACE from 1990.
Ike & Tina Turner
Sat, December 21st, 2013
WHAT Y'all HEAR IS WHAT YOU GET – Alive AT CARNEGIE HALL / Ike & Tina Turner:
Side 1:
Mind: I've Been Loving You Also Long / Ike & Tina Turner
IkeTinaLovingYouToo.mp3
Side 2:
Listen: A Honey Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday) / Ike & Tina Turner
A
Listen: Respect / Ike & Tina Turner
Respect
In 1971, United Artists released Ike & Tina Turner's 10th live album WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU Get – LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL in the US. Despite beingness a double tape and rather likewise padded with current soul covers, information technology still peaked at #25 on BILLBOARD'southward Superlative 200, their highest ever chart entry along with WORKIN' TOGETHER from the previous year.
They were hot off their biggest (#4) and only Us Elevation 10 single, 'Proud Mary', of which a live version was included.
Only seriously, how lopsided are those details? Ike & Tina Turner had 1 Acme 10 unmarried and merely managed to attain #25 in the anthology chart, despite being amidst of the biggest alive attractions in America and around the world during the lx′s / early on seventy′southward?
Well, their records didn't become much mainstream exposure on Top twoscore radio, a permanently dissentious mark on Phil Spector'due south career and psyche, although rumor has information technology his 'River Deep – Mount High' production was blackballed past the and then venomous payola enervating radio community.
Or peradventure, Ike & Tina Turner's human activity was simply besides raw, too suggestive and also hard hitting. Reality wasn't ever a friend of the mainstream.
Some of their previous, should have been hit singles were included on the double set. Two existence 'Ive Been Loving You Besides Long' and 'A Love Similar Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday)', both part of the three song jukebox only EP in a higher place.
The Ikettes
Tuesday, December third, 2013
FINE, FINE, FINE / The Ikettes:
Side one:
Listen: (He'southward Gonna Be) Fine, Fine, Fine / The Ikettes
IkettesFine.mp3
Listen: How Come / The Ikettes
How
Side 2:
Listen: Peaches 'n' Cream / The Ikettes
Peaches
Listen: The Biggest Players / The Ikettes
The
Lord knows how many hours I've spent wondering what Ike Turner'south recording sessions with The Ikettes must have been like. Who exactly were The Ikettes in fact? Now there's a mystery probably never to be unraveled lurking backside that curtain. No doubtfulness these details have had inquiring minds swirling for decades.
Of equal interest is Steve Venet's involvement, credited as Ike'south co-producer on these original Modern Records masters. Not but did he produce The Reflections, The Essex and the infamous GREATEST HITS FROM OUTER Space album, merely he actually was in the studio with The Ikettes and basically, the players from The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Wow.
He's also 1 in the same as songwriter to a couple of my lifetime favorites: 'Activity' by Freddy Cannon and 'Primitive' originally released in 1966 by The Groupies so covered past The Cramps on PSYCHEDELIC JUNGLE. Have mercy.
X
Monday, October eighth, 2012
Mind: See How We Are / X
Come across
Let me tell you one thing. We are very, very lucky, because Ten still be and tour regularly. In fact, they may be more powerful alive than e'er. The original lineup of Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebrake, John Doe and Billy Zoom has been reunited for several years now and are doing deservedly great business organisation. There's a lot of sense in sticking out that long stretch that ordinarily ends in legend.
Now Ten certainly are legends. Then many reasons: right upward there with Johnny and Ivy resides Baton for greatest guitarist, flawless and razor sharp at every given moment. DJ all the same the powerhouse metronome, Exene the most magnetic and perfect female front person of her generation, and John, one of the greatest voices ever with those 'desert at night' tones but Jim Morrison rivaled. When singing or harmonizing together, John and Exene would actually create a third voice, their timbres meshing and then perfectly. Two singers, iii voices. Pretty unique. And as writers, forget it. Yep living legends. More honest, hard working, and beholden people you will non observe.
Back in the Elektra days, I was very lucky to be their A&R guy, making several albums with them, and over both lineups. After Baton left in '86, Tony Gilkyson joined, plumbing fixtures the bill effortlessly. An incredible histrion also and guitarist on this track. When Tony left effectually '97, Billy rejoined to present. A&Ring them was a two fold experience: ever rewarding, always frustrating.
Rewarding considering at the studio, you knew this was the best place in the solar arrangement to exist, watching John and Exene through the command room window mastering a vocal take on ane mic alive. Wow. Information technology even so gives me tingles.
Merely frustrating knowing how the promotion department would have a difficult time with programers, and most likely be forced to accept defeat while sharing a $100 bottle of wine with some pampered PD.
Like all the greats, X couldn't get their off-white shake from radio. Bob Krasnow loved this track when he heard it. He walked into my office late one evening around 9 pm. We were all still there, everyone stayed late. It was a company full of people who loved their jobs and glowed in the success of the label that all had contributed to in some fashion. No one ever got fired. We never worried about that. Then Bob says "I hear you brought back some new X ruffs from LA. I desire to hear them". I handed him an unfinished version of 'Come across How We Are' on cassette and he left.
This rail was really started at Capitol Studios on Hollywood Blvd and it was haunting wandering around those halls with Exene, talking virtually the legends in framed pictures, that had recorded there prior. It was that work-in-progress version I had given him, and I knew the song was ace. Sure enough, ten minutes after he's back at my door. "This is fucking incredible, they are the voices of rebellion. This, Kevin, is important stuff".
I can hear his words as apparently now as when he spoke them, God dear him. Words from the guy who had produced Ike & Tina Turner and Captain Beefheart & The Magic Ring, and now in praise of X. For whatever reason, we released 'quaternary Of July' every bit the get-go single from the Come across HOW Nosotros ARE anthology confronting Bob'southward instincts. He thought that was besides commercial, besides formula when played up against 'See How We Are', but the radio department felt it was more than palatable, singable, like Springsteen. Actually, it was all those things and yep, it besides should have been a hit. He said, "You always have to put your best pes frontwards, you only get i chance".
He was correct. Even though as Chairman, I don't know why he didn't force the team to go for this single but he didn't. Although released as a 12″ to radio, the commercial 7″ was cancelled. Only a handful of finished sleeves (pictured) and three test pressings were made. I think Howard or Alago got the 3rd. I have the other two. Y'all always demand a safety copy.
A dealer recently asked how much one was worth to me, he wanted desperately to buy information technology. I said "It doesn't take a cost tag simply for everything else, at that place's Mastercard". He got nasty, called me an big-headed cunt. Seriously, he did. Not exactly the way to get that second copy off me despite his absolutely accurate clarification of my response.
Listen: Highway 61 Revisited (Over again) / 10
Highway
Thank you to reader Mark Deming, his proposition to also post 'Highway 61 Revisted (Again)' was a superb ane. All this time, I thought it had come up out as a bonus reissue rails or part of a cd comp. Incorrect. So here it it for all X fans to worship, as I exercise.
Ike & Tina Turner
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Listen: Infant – Get Information technology On / Ike & Tina Turner
Baby
Seemingly undaunted past failure, Ike & Tina Turner churned out singles at a hectic, continuous pace for more than a decade.
Come '75, the number declined, as opposed to say their '64 – '68 run. By this point, the tradeoff was certainly more than album releases than merely about any other act. No dubiousness encouraged by the United Artists funded, just Ike & Tina Turner owned Bolic Sound in the Inglewood section of Los Angeles, they flooded the marketplace with an endless stream of jam based, second rate songs. Or so it seemed at the fourth dimension.
Their live draw was at a peak, and in concert, much of what sounded pedestrian on vinyl surely exploded on the phase. Playing so many of those releases, as I often do, their once current but generic, associates line weakness quite honestly has gotten more and more than appealing as both time and altitude increase. Equally exercise the once unappealing covers.
What some might still consider a careless, bland or demo-similar snare sound at present postage a period date smack onto each record. A truthful subconscious charm beingness the clarity and precision of Ike's studio technique.
'Baby – Get It On' hands exemplifies the above claim, and was to be their last BILLBOARD Top 100 entry, peaking at #88 in '75.
Don't care, sounds improve than ever to me. Combining Ike's cliched lyrics, Tina'due south e'er inspired, dutiful telephone call/response commitment, that drum audio and a clear stereo mix easily allows the sum to become greater than the parts.
What I, and nearly likely, we all used to pass up at garage and firm sales have become eyebrow raisers nowadays. Yes, trust me, Ike & Tina Turner'south mid 70′s United Artists singles are worth grabbing.
Jimmy McCracklin
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Listen: Canis familiaris (Role ii) / Jimmy McCracklin
Canis familiaris
'Dog (Function 2)' was the second of eight singles Jimmy McCracklin issued between '67 and 'seventy on Minit, a sis label of Imperial, where he'd been signed since '62 and had an additional seventeen releases. All in all, twenty five 45′southward during an eight twelvemonth run with basically 1 characterization grouping, Liberty Records, of which both Minit and Majestic were imprints .
At ninety years onetime, he tin avowal a recording career that began in 1945, continuing until nigh recently, 1999. Aye, 54 years. Given that he performed during 2010, his recording days may not be over notwithstanding. I would sure like to shake this guy's mitt.
Like the A side, 'Canis familiaris (Part i)', this flip is largely an instrumental manner backing track. For all we know, those female voices merely may have been The Ikettes. Call up, Ike & Tina Turner were on Minit during this period too.
Having co-written the Otis Redding and Carla Thomas hit, 'Tramp' with Lowell Fulson, released in '67, and this having been issued around that aforementioned time, maybe 'Dog (Parts 1 & 2)' were the formative demo beginnings of 'Tramp'.
Regardless, a slap-up jukebox filler on a winter Sunday afternoon, and a needed artifact, if only for the title.
Ike & Tina Turner
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Heed: The Argument / Ike & Tina Turner
The
Nothing can change the shape of things to come, as Max Frost & The Troopers in one case professed.
I was in a Sue Records loop that I just couldn't get out of on Thanksgiving night. Must have played every Ike & Tina Turner release on the characterization at least once, each side included.
Lord, I'd totally forgotten well-nigh 'The Argument', lyrically. Almost valid enough to stand up in court.
Ike Turner
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Mind: Right On / Ike Turner
Correct
Lux and Ivy in one case pulled me aside in Toronto's Kop's Collectibles while we were shopping for 45′southward only afterward doing a MUCH MUSIC interview. In deadpan seriousness, Ivy handed me an Ike Turner single proclaiming if I did not own it, I needed it. "He's incredible, like seriously incredible."
"Forget all that whoee about his domestic life, the records, only get 'em all", Lux in an almost scolding tone.
I have obeyed, and as an email I recently got specific to my several posts on this blog conveyed, y'all can never have enough Ike & Tina Turner.
'Correct On' came out as a 7″ back when I was a college rep for United Artists, desperately interested in The Move, Wizzard, The Bonzo Dog Band and Family unit from their electric current roster, but too into the occasional Blue Annotation (who they distributed) funk-jazz release and whatever Monk Higgins or Bobby Womack single.
How I missed, misplaced or failed to pay attending to 'Right On' is a scary bare in my memory. It's then good, and so racey, and so unforgettable. What the fuck happened? Did I black out for three months or something? Well, I'll never know. Simply as I lie here in bed, with it on repeat and type this post, I can tell y'all 1 matter. At this very moment, it's my favorite record in the whole broad globe.
These lyrics are hysterical. Listen to every one. It may take a few plays, and I propose headphones, simply yous'll selection them upwardly. Ike'southward delivery will go far your confront, peradventure even scare you a bit, his voice is that alive. Wow.
Final week, while out on the Matt & Kim / blink-182 tour, we had a 24-hour interval off in Pittsburgh. Typically, they hit the Warhol museum, I call up the crew went to a sporting event of some stadium sort, and I striking today's version of the xanthous pages, Google, looking for used 45′southward. Commencement thing that comes up: Jerry's Records.
I rang to enquire, did they accept 45′s from the l′s and threescore′s. It was Jerry who answered.
Affirmative. "About 700,000."
Hmm, ok, sounds like a chip of a stretch, only certainly more than than a few boxes, and it was close, four miles. What the heck.
Lord have mercy. This was the most jaw dropping, overwhelming tape store I can retrieve existence in, maybe e'er. If you visit, and you seriously must, be ready. What y'all run into pictured above is one row from the $3 section of 45′south, then a few of those rows representing around ane third of that total $3 section. Plus at that place'south the $seven section, the new arrivals and the $100+ locked room, none of those even pictured here. In total, they all take up maybe one quarter, tops, of the entire shop. The residuum is albums. The walls are lined with memorabilia and every space is crammed with old displays and trade ads and, and, and……
I stood there frozen, body and brain. Couldn't think of i unmarried I needed for like five minutes. It was that powerful. Simply once I got going….forget it.
Promise yourself you volition visit, and don't plan on doing it in just i day. Perchance bring a stretcher. You might need to leave on information technology.
Like 'Right On', which I purchased at Jerry's, I'd somehow never heard of either.
Aren't records the greatest! At that place are so many, you never run out of the need to keep looking.
Jessie Hill
Tuesday, Baronial 30th, 2011
Listen: Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Part 1) / Jessie Hill
Ooh
As legend has it, past his teens, drummer Jesse Hill formed his offset group, The House Rockers in '51′ followed by periods drumming with both Professor Longhair and Huey Pianoforte Smith. Well oiled, he formed a new version of The House Rockers in '58, this time with a focus on singing.
The origins of 'Ooh Poo Pah Doo' reportedly lie with local pianist known but as Big Four from who Jesse Hill reportedly modeled his lyrics and melody, after fleshing the song out with an intro from Dave Bartholomew. Honed to a precipitous edge on stage, he demo'd then shopped it to some local record labels. Ultimately recording the song at Cosimo Matassa's studio with Allen Toussaint producing. Released by Minit in early 'lx, the unmarried became an instant favourite at Mardi Gras, eventually going on to sell 800,000 copies and peachy both the BILLBOARD R&B Top 5 and the pop Hot 100 (#28).
Somewhen moving to Los Angeles, Jesse Loma found plenty of work both writing for and playing with fellow New Orleans musicians including Harold Battiste and Mac Rebennack as they passed through town to tape. During the menses, he placed songs with loads of local RnB labels, even Sonny & Cher, and as well, Ike & Tina Turner, who took 'Ooh Poo Pah Doo' to #sixty in '71.
Ike & Tina Turner
Lord's day, Baronial seventh, 2011
Listen: Tell Her I'grand Not Dwelling / Ike & Tina Turner
Tell Her I'm Non Domicile / Ike & Tina Turner
Embarrassing simply true, during all the years I worked for Bob Krasnow at Elektra, I did non know of this record, although at that place were very many Ike & Tina Turner records I did know. In fact, the day Howard brought me in to meet him, essentially to get his blessing earlier joining the A&R staff, it was an Ike & Tina Turner single that probably helped become me the job.
I'd pretty much fumbled my way through some lop sided answer to his question, inquiring as to why I wanted an A&R job in the offset place. Before leaving, I simply had to get some details on 1 of the Ike & Tina Turner records Bob had produced, 'I've Been Loving You Likewise Long' from OUTTA SEASON, with information technology'due south infamous white faced, watermelon eating encompass art. It was clearly of corking interest to him that I knew such a item at all, and thus began our real relationship.
A year or and then after young and foolishly leaving Elektra for Isle, I stumbled on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland stock re-create, pictured above. How could I non buy any single by Ike & Tina Turner that I didn't own, just as a great bonus, when the producer was Bob?
Easily, 'Tell Her I'm Not Home' stands the test of time as i of their finest, with it'due south legendary spoken intro, and apply of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' riff, chirapsia The Move to it past a good half dozen months. With both occurring before the song even really starts, what's not to freak over?
I faxed a scan of the label to Bob'due south office a week or and then later on, feeling a bit timid given nosotros hadn't had contact since I'd left, basically, complimenting him on my new plant favorite vocal intro, to which he scribbled back something quite friendly. Information technology was a nice moment.
Brenda Holloway / Vivian Light-green
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Heed: Every Little Bit Hurts / Brenda Holloway
Every Niggling Fleck Hurts / Brenda Holloway
Listen: Every Picayune Bit Hurts / Vivian Green
Every Footling Bit Hurts / Vivian Dark-green
Written by Ed Cobb, 'Every Trivial Bit Hurts' is nothing similar his other massive hitting, The Standells' 'Muddied Water'. With writing credits as diverse as The Chocolate Watch Ring and Gloria Jones, information technology's doubly impressive.
There was an HBO program several seasons dorsum, AMERICAN DREAMS, all nearly Philadelphia in the 60′south. The daughter of the family information technology centered effectually was a dancer on AMERICAN BANDSTAND, then every episode featured a current artist kitted out as someone who had appeared on the show during that time period, and doing the same vocal originally performed. When they wanted Vivian Green, there weren't many cover choices left as they'd already used material from Mary Wells and Tina Turner. The 60′s were an era of girl groups, simply as Vivian was a solo artist, Motown acts like The Supremes or Martha & The Vandellas weren't options. I suggested Brenda Holloway, never expecting them to become for it, but they did.
Doing the TV show was a two day affair. Day one, Vivian went in to record her vocal at Ocean Manner Studios and on day two, she was dolled upwardly in costume (looking exactly similar Brenda Holloway to a T) and mimed the newly re-recorded version on a mock AMERICAN BANSTAND stage. It was a blast.
Vivian was completely prepared, plus being the flawless vocalist that she is, laid it down in one take. Everyone'southward jaw dropped. The engineer said "You're done" and her response was "I was only warming up. You mean I can't sing information technology again?" Of course they permit her, but also said if she wanted to bail and become shopping, they had what they needed. The to a higher place Vivian Green version is that start have.
Brenda Holloway actually called afterward that mean solar day, having heard the new version, to thank Vivian for a job well done.
Ike & Tina Turner
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Mind: Nutbush City Limits / Ike & Tina Turner
INutbush Metropolis Limits / Ike & Tina Turner
Given that Ike & Tina Turner's Bolic Sound Studio from the 70′s was quite nearly LAX, I asked my cab driver would he please cruise past it'southward address, 1310 North La Brea, on our way to the airdrome yesterday. And of course, he did. Every Los Angeles trip I try to visit some historic location or landmark, most of the time only historic to me, ordinarily bringing on the creeps, which is exactly the plan. More often than not, they now provide naught clues to the past. Similar after an auto accident is cleared away, the street cleaned upward, similar information technology never happened. All that history just gutted, renovated, erased. It'south disgraceful.
Such was the example hither. Given the early morning hour, it meant the area stood deserted, smoggy and nonetheless comatose. The edifice now connected to it'due south legend merely in address. Equal parts sad and eerie. What went on behind those walls in the early lxx′southward? What about the decor? What happened to all that equipment, furniture, or those wall hangings, plaques? I recollect friends from United Artists working in the characterization'due south office at the time, maxim Ike Turner'due south bargain, which included large advances and complete studio funding, pretty much sank their ship. When you're spending someone else's dime, you tend to over-decorate I'one thousand sure.
1 thing was certain, there, right in forepart of my eyes, simply a few yards abroad, stood the edifice where Ike & Tina Turner recorded and mixed a portion of their vast output. Lucky enough, nosotros hitting a cherry-red lite. I had a solid infinitesimal to just stare and zone and imagine. Surely some priceless characters spilled out into the wide daylight, splat onto that corner, in who knows what outfits or states, after many an all night session. Not to mention, the boxes of promos arriving for each release. Where did they all get?
Ike & Tina Turner
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Listen: Cussin' Cryin' & Carryin' On (Single Mix) / Ike & Tina Turner
Cussin' Cryin' & Carryin' On (Single Mix) / Ike & Tina Turner
A seemingly precise representation of the delta, chitlin' circuit RnB Ike Turner could chief in a four hour session when he wanted to, providing Tina Turner was in that location, that is. Even though information technology was recorded in Los Angeles, 'Cussin' Cryin' & Carryin' On' still felt rural.
The single was released twice, both times on Pompeii and about a yr apart. Wish I had some, whatever info as to why. Trust me, I take dug deep, only uncovered none. Oddly, as with nearly every other Ike & Tina Turner record from the period, this never did go a Britain event. How is that even possible, information technology's so good.
'Cussin' Cryin' & Carryin' On' and their general sound during the era, tortures at what I'grand convinced was missed by not seeing The Ike & Tina Turner Review in full, sweaty action during '64/'65/'66′. If merely I'd been born a few years before, well at to the lowest degree ten to cover it safely. The alive shows I could have attended, and records I could take caused. Wow.
Jack Nitzsche
Sunday, Apr 17th, 2011
Listen: The Solitary Surfer / Jack Nitzsche
The Lonely Surfer / Jack Nitzsche
Somewhere in this drove a US copy of 'The Solitary Surfer' lurks. Must have taken it out to dj with, because my recollection of it sounding huge and rather scary through the sound arrangement at Brooklyn Bowl is quite vivid.
The sport of surfing was non big in the U.k., nor was the musical genre, unsurprisingly. Given that UK pressings of surf singles are thin on the ground, finding this Jack Nitzsche 7″ in a tattered box of 45′s on a freezing October morning time along the Portobello Road market indeed felt quite the anomaly.
Jack himself, well he was and then entrenched in LA'due south recording scene during the early 60′southward that coining the ultimate surf anthem isn't really a shocker. His many credits often included arrangements, something no one really does these days, not exclusively and certainly not for money. The guy kept a lot of plates in the air, working with Phil Spector at Philles, organizing THE TAMI Bear witness, taking Doris Day to #1 in the pop charts, arranging for The Rolling Stones when they were at the RCA studios and managing to keep up a solo career on Reprise. There alone his array of releases included Chopin mode renditions of then electric current popular hits to, well, surf anthems similar 'The Lonely Surfer'.
Having arranged and orchestrated Ike & Tina Turner'southward 'River Deep – Mountain High' would be a pretty daunting accomplishment for anyone to top, but in many ways that's exactly what he does on 'The Lonely Surfer'. From the title to the eerie horns, he'southward captured a dark and alarming side of the supposedly sunshine and fun theme. Sorry but this record has always reminded me of seedy old Hollywood, the unsolved Bobby Fuller murder and Sal Mineo'southward as well.
By the way, ever noticed that some of the best surf records have the nearly unhappy horn bits on them.
Inez & Charlie Foxx
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Listen: (1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The Days / Inez & Charlie Foxx
(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The Days / Inez & Charlie Foxx
In that location's non a person I play this to who doesn't, after one spin, make up one's mind they need a re-create.
I was always extremely partial to this poor homo's Ike & Tina Turner, as I'd seen them referred to. Inez & Charlie Foxx had their biggest love in the United kingdom, like so many before and after would too. But seeing them perform on Cleveland'due south UPBEAT show in the threescore′due south confirmed my loyalty. UPBEAT was a weekly music programme, with a adept half dozen to x acts miming their latest releases on every episode. I guess the local network cornered all of them every bit they passed through Cleveland, happy to get whatsoever Television exposure. It was syndicated to various cities in the United states of america, including Syracuse hence I got to see it every Sunday.
There's a website for the show, and information technology is particularly boring to navigate – I believe the producer'due south son deals with the estate, and basically highlights simply the name acts, when the true involvement in the testify would exist the many obscure ones that were on. Hopefully that footage was preserved and will be freed up. At that place is definitely a goldmine there.
Then information technology was May of '67 when I saw Inez & Charlie on that very show. We had recently upgraded to a family color TV, and then everything was a technicolor dream come truthful. No bigger i than Inez Foxx in a skin tight floor length carnation pink dress playing a matching pink Stratocaster; and brother Charlie off behind her to the left singing and dancing on a very small riser perfectly clad in a matching pink chino conform, black shirt and pink necktie. Talk about having your visual together. And '(1-2-3-iv-v-vi-7) Count The Days' was the song they performed. Produced and written by Charlie Foxx and Swamp Dogg, Gene Pitney covered it a year or and then afterward. As great a vocalist as he definitely was, it was no lucifer for Inez Foxx'south delivery. Forth with Inez & Charlie Foxx'southward 'Come By Here', 'Tightrope' and 'Hurt By Honey', it's a life long favorite.
Jack Dupree
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Listen: Natural language Tied Blues / Jack Dupree
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This was a baroque discovery from that very beginning pile of singles I blagged off WMCR, claiming to be from the local Children'south Hospital and needing donations. There were many greats in that stack of well-nigh 50 (The Others, The Pretty Things, Inez & Charlie Foxx, The Mickey Finn, The Hullaballoos, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Reed), just this earned an firsthand spot.
I played it for anybody, all as baffled equally myself on first listen. We were feeling confidently hip to this blues music The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Kinks claimed every bit their influences, even though we simply were not. A truthful and pure example had yet to be served our way until that very get-go spin of 'Tongue Tied Dejection'. Just heed and you'll empathize.
Ike & Tina Turner
Sun, September 19th, 2010
Heed: Sexy Ida (Part 1) / Ike & Tina Turner IkeTinaSexyIda.mp3
Yous are correct, this is not my first Ike & Tina Turner post, nor will it be the last. My wall shelf easily has a foot long upright section dedicated to their singles, all of them essentials.
I recently played 'Sexy Ida (Part i) at the Brooklyn Bowl residency, and human being did it sound hot through a big PA. Parts ane and 2 would certainly have y'all thinking a 6 or 7 minute album version was lazily divided into halves then as to fit the whole vocal onto a 7″. Not the case here, which is a rare occasion – indeed possibly one of a kind.
Listen: Sexy Ida (Part 2) / Ike & Tina Turner IkeTinaIda2.mp3
'Sexy Ida (Role 2) is in fact a less black, more rock-of -the day rendition. Sounds to me like their contempo mainstream successes with 'Proud Mary' and 'I Want To Take Y'all College' inspired Ike Turner to tape a more guitar heavy rendition to the rail, just in case the white underground and pop stations took a shine. In fact, it has a uncanny resemblance to The Rolling Stones, who Ike & Tina Turner had been touring with quite often at the time. Despite Role 2 being pressed up as a double sided DJ promo, it was Part ane that got some traction, eventually struggling to an unjust #65 on Billboard'due south Pinnacle 100 (#29 Blackness) in early '74.
Cull your favorite – but it should be well like shooting fish in a barrel to guess mine.
Lorraine Ellison
Th, August 19th, 2010
Listen: Stay With Me / Lorraine Ellison LorraineStay.mp3
I was thinking almost my previous post (The Exciters) and a whole lot of Bert Burns details kept coming to mind, similar ane of his reportedly last songs, written with Jerry Ragovoy, beingness 'Piece Of My Center'. Later being made super famous by Big Brother & The Holding Company, in that location really was no signal in trying to compete with a re-recordings, although some did. Janis Joplin clearly had a definitive cognition of the smashing RnB singers at that time. I recall her being interviewed past Dick Cavett and mentioning her favorite being Tina Turner. Neither he nor the silent audience knew who that was. She dug up and recorded greats past Garnet Mimms, Bobby Womack, Howard Tate and obviously Jerry Ragovoy (who wrote many of the same); undeniably making them hers.
In that location's a cd compilation currently available, TIME IS ON MY SIDE – THE JERRY RAGOVOY STORY 1953-2003. I highly suggest getting a copy. It overviews an impressive array of styles, simply mostly pure RnB. One of the songs it includes is 'Stay With Me' by Lorraine Ellison. At present oddly enough, I dear her version even though I don't beloved love love her voice. I similar her an atrocious lot, only prefer a bit more husk. When combining her with Ragovoy's songs though, information technology always works.
Now the following is a true story. If someone were to tell it to me, I wouldn't believe them – it's and so far fetched. About 8 years ago, I went down to the village to meet Kate Hyman for dejeuner. She was looking at a modest, really run down (needed gutting to exist exact), brownstone and suggested we meet at that place (just off Reddish Street), have a await and become consume. I beloved looking at property and she knew it – so blindside, we had a plan. A mutual friend, Glen Schiller, was the agent and he walked us through the and then rotting, water damaged debris of a domicile – now renovated and conspicuously worth a fortune. I was a little timid most going up the stairs but followed along. There was literally nothing, and I hateful zip, in the building except a perfect, Usa promo copy of Lorraine Ellison'due south 'Stay With Me' (the 2nd outcome – pictured at the peak) propped against a sleeping accommodation wall. I know – you retrieve I'thou lying. I swear on my Mother's life – this is true. I couldn't believe it. There should have been a faint sound of 'magic' or 'angels' or 'fairydust' backgrounding my arm reaching down and chiming when as fingers met the sleeve, only in the movies.
This copy was mint. The sleeve factory fresh. What the fuck was this doing here? I asked Glen – he didn't have a clue and said "Take it". Well you lot just need to say that to me one time. I did. And so there you get – meant to be.
The Ikettes
Monday, May 24th, 2010
This web log began two years ago with The Ikettes postal service below. As with And then MANY RECORDS SO LITTLE Time'southward first altogether, on this it's second – I am re-posting that very first entry, and programme to practice it every year to come up.
An added bonus this time round is the add-on of the unmarried's B side and accompanying story.
Listen: What'cha Gonna Do / The Ikettes
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The Ikettes but Phi-Dan release came out in early '66. This was around the time of Phil Spector's interest with Ike & Tina, not but producing, but also including them on his Big TNT Show, filmed in Nov of '65. The lineup on this tape, courtesy of the fantastic booklet from Ace Records' recent Ikettes anthology, Can'T Sit Downward….'COS IT FEELS SO Practiced, was P. P. Arnold on lead vocals, with Tina, Brenda Holloway and her sister Patrice on backgrounds. I'm launching this blog with The Ikettes merely because it'southward a record I'm currently nuts near. Really, right at present, I'm in a serious Ikettes phase, fueled by the aforementioned CD. I was in London last week with Matt & Kim, and staying with Roger Armstrong, a great friend who founded Ace. It was ane of the discs he gave me, and I only poured over the booklet on the entire flight dorsum home to New York. The CD is a must. And also effort finding the single (the CD only draws from their releases on Modern Records). As you tin hear, it'll be worth the search. I picked information technology up off eBay a few months dorsum having no thought it had existed. $65 later, it'south one of those great moments when you realize there'south always something else to add to the collection.
Heed: Down Down / The Ikettes
IkettesDownDown.mp3
On May 16th – just last week, I had the shocking honor of receiving an email from Rose Smith aka Rose Ikette. Rose, along with Pat Arnold (P. P. Arnold) were in the '65 – '66 lineup of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue featuring The Ikettes.
Rose had found the blog while searching for a re-create of 'What'cha Gonna Do' and it'southward flipside 'Downward Downwardly'. She was at these sessions and as it turns out, does the lead vocal on 'Down Downward'.
What a fantastic vocal, information technology feels very gospel, almost religious. Apparently getting some decent airplay on LA soul radio at the time of release, Rose hadn't heard it for years. I sent her an mp3 of the track, and we plan to talk, later today in fact. How'southward that for a coincidence? She has kindly promised to share many details most the menses, lineup, various sessions and her infamous trip to the Britain when they shared a tour with The Rolling Stones. Pat never came dorsum, but instead became P. P. Arnold, signed to Immediate and had a decent run of UK hits. Rose likewise hung around London long enough to contribute some vocals on diverse Firsthand singles likewise.
Meanwhile, here'south 'Downwards Down', with Rose and The Ikettes.
Source: http://www.somanyrecordssolittletime.com/?cat=1090
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