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JAMES, ETTA - Fire/You Got It
Fire is a Willie Dixon tune, but I don’t think the Bluesman had any idea what Rick Hall and his crew in Alabama were going to do with it when they re-arranged it for Etta James. The song features some blaring horns and Ms. James’ always powerful voice matching the brass note for note. |
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AVERNE, HARVEY DOZEN - Viva Soul
Viva Soul is best known for the track You’re No Good with its bouncy beginning before going into a trade off between a female duo and I assume Averne on vocals. The song is so catchy it demands repeated plays. |
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BUTLER, JERRY - The Soul Goes On
The Soul Goes On starts off with one of my favorite Jerry Butler tunes, Never Give You Up, which also appeared on his Ice Man Cometh album. The song has a great arrangement with horns and a sing along chorus. |
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CHARLES, RAY - A Portrait of Ray
A Portrait of Ray gets off to a real slow and melancholy start with Never Saw Naw. That mood continues on for almost the entire album until I Won’t Leave jumps off of the record. It’s got a big horn line and some real funkiness to its rhythm, which is tempered by Charles’ down home singing. |
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RANDI, DON - Plays Love Theme From “Romeo & Juliet”
I’m slowly but surely finishing off my David Axelrod discography. Don Randi’s Plays Love Theme was arranged and produced by Axe, and consists mostly of covers. |
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JOHNSON, SYL - Everybody Needs Love/That’s Why
Everybody Needs Love is an excellent Soul tune featuring some nice and subtle orchestration, and Syl Johnson’s usual strong vocalizing about the panacea of love. |
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COLLINS, DAVE AND ANSELL - Monkey Spanner/Monkey Spanner Version Two
This 45 comes via Dave And Ansel Collins’ great Reggae album Double Barrel. Like that LP, Monkey Spanner is a soulful Reggae piece featuring Dave Collins’ on the organ and Ansell toasting over the top. |
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RUBBER BAND - Hendrix Songbook
The Rubber Band was a string group backed up by an electric rhythm section that released a couple albums covering popular Rock bands like Cream. |
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STATON, CANDI - Candi Staton
Candi Staton’s self-titled album was the last in her trio of releases with Rich Hall’s famous Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama and the Fame label. |
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COUNTS - Funk Pump
Funk Pump certainly has a catchy cover with a close-up of a girl’s behind in some short shorts. Unfortunately, the music isn’t as hot as the girl. |
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KOLE & PARAM - Early In The Morning
Kole & Param were an interracial singing duo, one white, the other black. Early In The Morning might be their only album, and let’s pray that it was. It’s a truly bad piece of Pop music. Calling them square might be an overstatement. |
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MBULU, LETTA - Free Soul
Letta Mbulu was a singer from South Africa who ended up coming to America with the help of her countrywoman Miriam Makeba to escape the racist apartheid system. In the U.S. she had a long recording career releasing several albums. |
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