D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities
Episodes
Friday Mar 18, 2022
A Small Eternity In New York City.
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
You might like this little slice of relatively well-recorded tomfoolery recorded live at the famous Fillmore East in 1971. What a night it must have been. Anyhow, it really depends on which mix you like better. Lennon and Ono or Frank Zappa. To me, Some Time In New York City sounds pretty muddy. I like this album because it has (to my knowledge) none of Zappa's Xenechrony. It's all raw, but if you really pay attention, these Mothers were pretty tight.
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Well
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Say Please
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Aaawk (I love Yoko's ferocious "aaawk" squeals...like she's repeatedly being shoved underwater.)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Scumbag
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono
Willie Dickson and The Playboys - Licking Stick (1969)
Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (1976) Instrumental version sounds almost like a run-through. Especially that bass. I like it.
Collective Consciousness Society CCS - Whole Lotta Love (1971)
Discogs: CCS (Collective Consciousness Society) was a British group formed by bluesman Alexis Korner and Danish vocalist Peter Thorup. The band itself also consisted of different studio casts who would be around but also included Tony Carr (drums), Herbie Flowers (bass), Harold Beckett (trumpet), Harold McNair (woodwind), and Henry Lowther (trumpet), among others. This wasn’t all, as they were going for a unique sound to rival the top Rock acts of the day. So they would grab the creme de la creme of jazz studio musicians of the time. The entire lineup would always be subject to change throughout the band’s history, depending on personnel availability at recordings.
Desmond Dekker and the Aces - Licking Stick (1971)
David Peel and the Lower East Side - The Ballad of New York City - John Lennon / Yoko Ono (1972)
Elephant's Memory - Local Plastic Ono Band (1972)
George Torrence and the Naturals - (Mama, Come Quick, And Bring Your) Lickin' Stick (1968) Note the composer.
James Brown - Licking Stick, Licking Stick (1968) Now, the same song, re-written by James Brown.
Rusty Garnett - Licking Stick, Licking Stick (196?)
Tenth Hour - Lickin Stick (1975) This beat Shazam! Credited to Charles Manley and George Torrence.
The United States Air Force Band featuring The Free Design – "The Now Sound Of Christmas" (1968) These are all live recordings, and some have never been released on Free Design albums. ESPECIALLY the song "Shepherds and Wisemen" which, to my ears, is very good. A hidden gem.
The Proper Ornaments/Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)/Christmas Is The Day/Winter Wonderland/Shepherds and Wise Men/Reprise-The Now Sound of Christmas. It would be so nice to hear this on a big FM radio console in a living room.
Jimmy Castor Bunch (featuring the Everything Man) - Supersound (1975) I love this.
Monday Aug 02, 2021
I Bring The Funk.
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
As Bob Burtman would say, "Icksnay on the uck-fay" as the Parliament Funkadelic live version of "Tear The Roof Off" commenced to play.
Some songs that James Brown made famous and then decided to rerecord. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
James Brown - I Feel Good (1975) Not the version you're used to hearing.
James Brown - Problems (1975) If you Google "James Brown" and "Problems", it will take a LONG time to get to this song.
James Brown - It’s A New Day (1970) My favorite song by JB.
Parliament-Funkadelic - Tear The Roof Off (Live 1976) Do not listen if the swears offend you.
The Clash - Radio Clash (Remix) (1980)
African Music Machine - Mr. Brown (1974)
Chuck Brown - B.A.D. (1984)
George McCrae - I Get Lifted (1974) From Wikipedia: He was about to return to college to study law enforcement, when Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded for the band, but could not reach the high notes that were required for the song. The original intention was that Gwen, his wife, should record it, but she was late for the session and George recorded alone. The rest is history! Finch and Casey began their decade-long chart dominance. People don't recall what a big influence the Miami Sound had on dance floors and AM radios all over the country. You just can't fake those grooves.
Jimmy “Bo” Horne - Let Me (Be Your Lover) (1978) Sampled by Stereo MC's to fine effect.
Jimmy “Bo” Horne - Dance Across The Floor (1978)
Ron Louis Smith - Make Me Know It (1978) Ronald Louis Smith is the original KC and the Sunshine Band trumpet player and the leader of the horn section and choreographer. He created all the dance moves the band was famous for. The Sunshine Band was formerly called the Ocean Liner Band. Ronald Louis Smith wrote/produced the hit disco record "Spank" artist Jimmy Bo Horne.He arranged and played the trumpet parts in the big reggae record "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley. He also worked with Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine at Miami Sound Studio.
Chicago - What’s This World Coming To (1973) I love Chicago albums V, VI, and VII. As good a trio of records any group recorded in the '70s consecutively, except for Stevie.
Bobby Rydell - Sway (1976) This is not the original 1960 hit, but an attempt to modernize through the demon known at the time as Disco. Many, many artists rode the train to sadness. Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Kate Smith, Bobby Hebb, so so many.
Frank Sinatra - All Or Nothing At All (1977) This is not the original 1939 hit, but an attempt to modernize through the demon known at the time as Disco. Many, many artists rode the train to sadness. Bobby Rydell, Sammy Davis, Kate Smith, Bobby Hebb, so so many.
The Beach Boys - Here Comes The Night (1979) This is not the original 1967 song, but an attempt to modernize through the demon known at the time as Disco. Many, many artists rode the train to sadness. Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, The Hollies, so so many.
Osmonds - I, I, I (1979) Produced by Maurice Gibb. No answer from Robin or Barry.
Jeff Lynne - Goin’ Down To Rio (1977) From his two-sided dance single. Attendant dance steps on the cover. He was in The Move.
Bobby Hebb - Sunny ’76 (1976)
Neil Diamond - Dancing In The Streets (1979)
Elton John - Thunder In The Night (1979)
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs - Kiss and Tell (1979)
Maureen McGovern - I’m Happy Just To Dance With You (1979)
Sammy David Jr. - We’ll Make It This Time (Theme from "Kojak") (1976)
Tom Jones - Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina (1979)