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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Apr 9, 2021 14:43:20 GMT
All the talk of the Southern Death Cult's "Fatman" put me in mind of this tune, which is far superior to anything the SDC or The Cult ever did:
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Post by clive gash on Apr 25, 2021 13:38:53 GMT
Curtis resplendent in a two-piece tea towel there.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 25, 2021 18:33:36 GMT
That Little ones would know / Or believe me if I told them so couplet is kind of magical. Like a lot else about the song, it maybe shouldn't work yet it does; I'm not sure that anyone less than Curtis Mayfield could have pulled this off.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 26, 2021 6:32:07 GMT
I heard this 1968 track on a various artists comp today, and it was driving me crazy - I was sure I knew another song with a very similar melody/changes, but I couldn't think what it was... Eventually I figured it out. Can you? It's a song a lot of people here would know.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Apr 26, 2021 11:34:05 GMT
Is it this?
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 26, 2021 17:38:34 GMT
No, much closer than that (though I do see a slight resemblance there).
This one is from the early '70s, by a black American artist...
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Post by clive gash on Apr 26, 2021 19:52:37 GMT
What do I win?
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 26, 2021 19:55:48 GMT
You win my gratitude for playing, Clive!
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 27, 2021 4:55:58 GMT
No quiz this time, but here's another song from the same comp, by one J.A. Freedman -
- and similarly I thought "where have I heard that intro before?" It's pretty much the same chords as the intro to Bettye Swann's soul version of Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again", released earlier the same year (1969) - though I'm more familiar with her unreleased-at-the-time (early '70s) duet with Buck Owens, where the resemblance is even clearer -
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Post by "BING E BONG" on May 3, 2021 20:38:55 GMT
fuck - have you heard this? what a treat!
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Post by Charlie O. on May 3, 2021 20:50:38 GMT
Ottilie enough, I never have!
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Post by Charlie O. on May 3, 2021 20:58:18 GMT
That really is a lovely song, and lovely sung, but that SO-turn-of-the-seventies "aren't we funky now" rhythm section is tripping it up a bit.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on May 3, 2021 21:02:30 GMT
oh Charlie I LOVE it! I can't believe it! it's the best thing I've heard in an age. She was married to Chris Barber, apparently, and was a jazz singer, really - had successes in the 50s and 60s. The album this came from is one of those 'buried treasures', but the track also made this comp :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2265519-1273418278.jpeg.jpg) wow just when I think nothing much can move me any more...  |
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Post by Charlie O. on May 3, 2021 21:08:40 GMT
You know, I downloaded that whole series not long ago - never got around to actually listening to any of it...
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Post by "BING E BONG" on May 3, 2021 21:12:47 GMT
Ah, there's a lot of it - several volumes
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