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British record buyers had to wait until 1960 to hear the great American albums of 1959; John Coltrane's debut LP, Charles Mingus's Ah Um and Horace Silver’s Blowin' the Blues Away. On the home front, in December 1959, Tubby Hayes was already absorbing influences from these albums while cutting his latest LP, Tubby's Groove. This 4CD set pits Britain’s finest jazz tracks of 1959-1960 up against the very best music coming out of the States at the same time, showing that British modernists could at last stand tall among jazz music’s giants. Compilation Nick Duckett Includes 24 page booklet and CD inlay. Sleeve Notes Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Simon Spillett RANDB049 …the British choices are more exciting. They include not only some fabulous rarities, but items culled from BBC broadcasts of the time, whose very existence came as a complete surprise to me: Dizzy Reece guesting with the Jazz Couriers, for instance. Even the most demanding mod would have approved. Dave Gelly The Observer Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
Disc One 1967- See See Rider (Traditional)
- A Love Like Yours (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
- Shake Rattle And Roll (Jesse Stone)
- Tobacco Road (Loudermilk)
- Road Runner (McDaniels)
- See See Rider (Traditional)
- All Night Long (The Animals)
- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Mann/Weill)
- Gin House Blues (Traditional)
- When I Was Young (The Animals)
- House Of The Rising Sun (Traditional)
- Good Times (The Animals)
- When I Was Young (The Animals)
- See See Rider (Traditional)
- All Night Long (The Animals)
- Tobacco Road (Loudermilk)
- So Long (The Animals)
- Story Of The Animals (The Animals)
- Hey Gyp (Donovan)
- San Franciscan Nights (The Animals)
- Gin House Blues (Traditional)
- Paint It Black (Jagger/Richards)
- I’m So Excited (Hooker)
- My Life, Baby (The Animals)
- Tobacco Road (Loudermilk)
- Yes I Have Been Experienced (The Animals)
- San Franciscan Nights (The Animals)
- Monterey (The Animals)
- Paint It Black (Jagger/Richards)
- Every Day I Have The Blues (Peter Chatman)
- Tobacco Road (Loudermilk)
- Monterey (The Animals)
- Paint It Black (Jagger/Richards)
- Hey Gyp (Donovan)
- When I Was Young (The Animals)
- House Of The Rising Sun (Traditional)
- San Franciscan Nights (The Animals)
- When I Was Young (The Animals)
- River Deep, Mountain High (Spector/Greenwich/Barry)
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- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Pete Townshend)
- Daddy Rolling Stone (Otis Blackwell)
- Shout & Shimmy (James Brown)
- Man With Money (Don & Phil Everly)
- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- So Sad About Us (Pete Townshend)
- Substitute (Pete Townshend)
- Man With Money (Don & Phil Everly)
- Dancing In The Street (Gaye/Stevenson/Hunter)
- Barbara Ann (Fred Fassert)
- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- So Sad About Us (Pete Townshend)
- Happy Jack (Pete Townshend)
- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- I’m A Boy - fragment (Pete Townshend)
- Substitute (Pete Townshend)
- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- C C Rider (Traditional)
- Baby Don’t You Do It (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
- My Generation (Pete Townshend)
- Substitute - fragment (Pete Townshend)
- Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpoint)
- You Rang? (Townshend/Entwistle/Daltrey/Moon)
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Aside from the music, one of the richest pleasures to be found here is Nick Duckett’s comprehensive and astute liner notes. It’s in Duckett’s writing almost as much as in the songs themselves, that we truly get a feel for the skill, craftsmanship and musical acumen that characterized the work of Henry Glover. Virtually every song in this compilation is addressed, often with in-depth discussions of how Glover crafted the rhythmic patterns, instrumental voicings and textures, and the multi-genre cross-pollinations and borrowings that made this music come alive…Everyone from hard-core aficionados to more mainstream fans who simply love good R&B and blues from the mid-century golden age to the dawning of rock’n’roll will find this an essential addition to their collection. David Whiteis Living Blues Henry Glover was the first producer/writer in the American music industry, paving the way for a host of illustrious followers such as Phil Spector, Leiber & Stoller and Burt Bacharach. Composer, producer, arranger, publisher, talent scout, vocalist, trumpet player, engineer, A&R executive, and, later, a label owner in his own right, Glover was one of the most talented music industry entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. The fact that he was black and working in an exclusively white executive environment makes his achievements all the more remarkable. Glover’s formative years were spent at Cincinnati-based King Records and the majority of hits on that label during its golden era from 1947 to 1958 were Henry Glover productions. He was equally at home with white and black music. His pioneering work with Moon Mullican and Hawkshaw Hawkins combining blues and country predates Elvis Presley’s Sun recordings by several years. Glover tried his hand at doo-wop and rock’n’roll music, but he found his greatest success in the dance craze era of the early 1960s. In later years, Glover channelled his energies into forming his own record label (he launched the careers of The Hawks, who mutated into The Band, and of Nick Ashford). One of his last productions was Muddy Waters’s swansong The Woodstock Album, which won a Grammy in 1975. This 4CD set contains 125 Henry Glover songs sung by Bill Doggett, Bull Moose Jackson, Champion Jack Dupree, The Checkers, Delmore Brothers, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Hank Ballard, Joey Dee, Little Willie John, Lucky Millinder, Lula Reed, Moon Mullican, Roy Brown, Ray Charles, Sonny Thompson, The Swallows, Tiny Bradshaw, Wynonie Harris, The 5 Royales and many more… Includes 28-page booklet RANDB0200 The collection is an absolute cracker. Fred Rothwell - Blues & Rhythm Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). Comes with 28-page booklet. All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
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- You Are My Sunshine
- Satisfaction
- Night Life
- A Natural Woman
- Baby I Love You
- Feelgood
- Since You've Been Gone
- Good To Me As I Am To You
- I Never Loved A Man
- Chain Of Fools
- Soul Serenade
- Respect
- Play Out
- Interview
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Disc One British Jazz- Ronnie Scott Sextet Pittsburgh Opener
- Dave Lee Trio Salt Air
- Johnny Keating All Stars Headin' North
- Tubby Hayes/Victor Feldman Sextet Four
- Kenny Baker's Half Dozen Act One Scene One
- Derek Smith Chelsea Bridge
- Don Rendell Jazz Six Star Eyes
- Vic Ash Plus Four Cinders
- Dizzy Reece Quintet On The Scene
- Tony Kinsey Quintet Just Goofin'
- Jimmy Deuchar Sextet Opus De Funk
- The Jazz Couriers Cheek To Cheek
- Dick Heckstall-Smith Quintet Sputnik
- Johnny Dankworth Firth Of Fourths
- Kenny Graham's Afro Cubists Monkey Business
- Melody Maker's All-Stars Top Score
- Wes Montgomery Finger Pickin'
- Milt Jackson The Spirit-Feel
- Carl Perkins Trio Too Close For Comfort
- Miles Davis Générique
- Horace Silver Quintet Safari
- Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble Cubano Chant
- Mose Allison New Ground
- Ray Charles & Milt Jackson Blue Funk
- Jimmy Smith Trio Buns A Plenty
- Lorez Alexandria Baltimore Oriole
- Charles Mingus Celia
- Art Pepper You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Barney Kessel On Green Dolphin Street
- Thad Jones Mad Thad
- Jimmy Giuffre 3 The Train And The River
- John Coltrane Sextet Blue Train
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- Stompin’ At The Savoy
- But Not For Me
- Ow!
- Autumn In New York
- Treble Gold
- Lifeline
- Sonny Sounds
- Tour De Force
- Design for Drums
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Pianist Michael Garrick was among the most boldly ambitious British jazz figures of the late-1960s, tirelessly pioneering various new fusions uniting his first love – straight-ahead jazz – with Indian music, liturgy and poetry. Featuring two previously unreleased sessions taped in 1967 and 1969, this album charts the course of his music from post-bop convention towards an indisputably ‘English’ jazz sound. Containing provocative live versions of several well-known Garrick compositions and an all-star cast, it truly captures the era in which UK jazz began to loosen its collar and let down its hair. RANDB076 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). Comes with original printed CD inner plus booklet annotated by Simon Spillett. All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
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London’s nightclubs have been shaking to the rockin’ sounds of jive, blues and rock’n’roll for the past fifty years and to celebrate this fact, here is aa selection of tracks as part of the Rumba Blues series, that have been getting the cats on the dance floor at Soho’s Hidden Charms nights. The disc is full of Latin beats with rumbas, boleros and tumbaos to the fore. The New Orleans inverted son clave features on four tracks and there’s a bit of jazz and blues to spice things up. The guys dubbed the tracks direct from disc as they were all currently unavailable on CD at time of writing. So if you were there or wish you’d been there, here’s your chance to listen to some rediscovered hidden charms at home! RANDB027 -
Disc 1 Disc 2 Joe S. Maxey Right On! Monk Higgins Ain't That Hateful Clarence Gatemouth Brown Summertime The Soul Runners Grits 'n' Corn Bread Beverly Pitts Just Some Soul Righteous Brothers Band Green Onions Perry & The Harmonics James Goes To Soulville Kase Trio Shug Hank Marr Marr's Groove Mark III Trio Blues For Elmer Lorenzo Holden The Wig The Pop-Ups Lurking The Limas Big Limas World Famous Upsetters Cabbage Greens Oliver Sain Jerk Loose Little Sonny The Mix Up Johnny Hammond Smith The Golden Thrush Watts 103rd Street Charley Junior Parker These Kind Of Blues (Pt. 2) Hank Marr White House Party Boss Sounds In The Midnight Hour The Triumphs Turn Out The Light Mark III Trio Good Grease Jamo Thomas Jamo's Soul Dino & The Dell-Tones Slapstick James Rivers Tighten Up Bash Brannigan Hunky Funky Four Gents Soul Sister The Blendells Get Your Baby The Premiers Get Your Baby The Corky Wilkie Band Something Swinging The Registers No Deposit No Return Leon & The Burners Whiplash Tom Douglas Haulin' Chuck Rowan Jerk Walk Merle Saunders Soul Roach Booker T & The MG's Bootleg/Green Onions Medley The Buena Vistas Hot Shot Merle Saunders How's That Rudy Robinson The Mustang The Nu-Trons Beat George Semper Collard Greens The Dukeys Sho-Nuf M.F. The Four Steps Same Old Beat Gaynel Hodge Follow the Fox Ramsey Lewis Trio Hang On, Sloopy E Rodney Jones R&B Time (Pt. 2) John Adams I Will Love You Johnny Talbot Never Make Your Baby Cry Ric-Tic House Band Agent Double-O-Soul Dave Bartholomew Wishbone Charlie Earland Yes-Suh! Leon & The Burners Crack Up Leon Haywood Soul On The Wild Child Down In The Chile World Famous Upsetters KP Sammie John Boss Bag Gentleman June Gardner Last Night Harold Battiste Jr How We Do It In New Orleans Eddie Bishop Call Me -
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- Sunday Lunch
- Off The Wagon
- Inner Urge
- You Don’t Know What Love Is
- Le Roi
- The Whims of Chambers
- Le Roi
- My Ship
- Inner Urge
- No Room For Squares
- You Don’t Know What Love Is
- Don’t Fall Off The Bridge
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DISC ONE- Edgar Hayes Fat Meat 'n' Greens
- Professor Longhair Tipitina
- Chris Powell Mambo Gunch
- Mose Allison The Seventh Son
- Ahmad Jamal Trio Poinciana
- Bill Doggett Hold It
- Ernie Freeman Live It Up
- Earl King Come On (Pts 1 & 2)
- Drits & Dravy Talk That Talk (Pt. 1)
- Ike & Tina Turner I Idolize You
- Jack McDuff Brother Jack
- James Brown And I Do Just What I Want
- Roy Montrell Mudd
- Sugar Pie DeSanto Can't Let You Go
- Al Robinson I'm Leaving You Today
- Earl King Trick Bag
- Eddie Bo Check Mr. Popeye
- The Isley Brothers Teach Me How To Shimmy
- Gino Parks Fire
- Joe 'Guitar' Morris The Git Back (Pt. 1)
- Prince La La She Put The Hurt On Me
- Stanley Turrentine Baia
- Fabulous Playboys Honkey Tonk Woman
- Vernon Harrel Slick Chick
- James Brown Mashed Potatoes U.S.A.
- Billy Stewart Fat Boy
- Jimmy Pace Stop My Heart From Crying
- Lee Dorsey People Gonna Talk
- Ernie K-Doe I Got To Find Somebody
- Marvin Gaye Hitch Hike
- Pistol Keep On Lovin' You
- Porgy & The Polka Dots Say Yeah
- Ray Johnson Soul City
- Shirley Raymond What a Wedding Day
- Fred Lowery Goodbye
- Spider Johnson Doin' The Popeye
- Huey 'Piano' Smith Talk To Me Baby
- Dolores Johnson What Kind Of Man Are You
- Turquinettes Tell Me The Truth
- Bob Bateman R B Special
- James Booker Big Nick
- Wallace Johnson Clap Your Hands
- Roosevelt Fountain Red Pepper (Pts 1 & 2)
- C. Davis Coolin' Out
- David Rockingham Trio Joy De Vie
- Bobby Mitchell You Got The Nerve
- James Brown I've Got Money
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Disc One Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra August 30th 1965- Change Of Setting
- Blues For Pipkins
- Double Stopper
- The Song Is You
- Whisper Not
- 100% Proof
- Blame It On My Youth
- Wives and Lovers
- I Never Know When To Say When
- What’s Blue?
- Mini Minor
- Con Alma
- Sometime Ago
- Souriya
- So What
- Change Of Setting
- Alone Together
- Sometime Ago
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
- Don’t Fall Off The Bridge
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- Sweet Lotus Blossom
- You Are My Heart’s Delight
- Close Your Eyes
- Waltz for Debby*
- Music That Makes Me Dance/When She Makes Music*
- The Night Is Young
- I’ll Be Seeing You
- Close Your Eyes
- What’s New?
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Manchester Free Trade Hall was host to two concerts on Sunday October 21st 1962 that acted as a catalyst to the nascent British Blues & R&B boom, on the verge of breaking out of its suburban home in Ealing, West London. The shows were promoted by Stockport-based Paddy MacKiernan under the Jazz Unlimited banner and attracted a crowd of around two thousand enthusiasts, who saw the first major concert in Britain to feature American bluesmen. Manchester was the only UK date on the 1962 American Folk-Blues Festival tour and it was attended by blues fans from all over the country through what Paul Jones called ‘the bush telegraph’. With Jones were Alexis Korner and Macclesfield-born John Mayall, plus extraordinarily a contingent of younger fans who had made the trip in a clapped out van from London. Why extraordinary? Because the van contained some of the future superstars of the British scene: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Jimmy Page. The Stones by this time had just a dozen gigs under their belts and Page had recently embarked on the first stage of his career as a session guitarist. David Williams dedicates a whole chapter to the road trip in his book The First Time We Met The Blues. “It must have been around early September 1962 when news filtered down the grapevine…We could hardly believe that real blues artists were going to appear here in our country…were regarded somewhat like mystic gods within our circle…(Jimmy Page) realised that he would not be able to make the journey with us as he was already booked to play a gig with Neil Christian on the Saturday night…it was agreed Jim would travel up by train on the Sunday and we would find space for him in the van for the journey back overnight…Graham (Ackers) was a pretty good driver and soon managed to find his way through Central London to a square ...where we picked up Mick, Keith and Brian.” Keith Richards remembers it differently, “Mick sometimes had the use of his parents’ Triumph Herald at the weekend and I remember we went to see a big blues show in Manchester.” Jimmy Page: “When David Williams told me of the impending visit of the initial American Folk-Blues Festival to England, I was keen to join the pilgrimage to Manchester. It was not only the first time that I would actually see artists like John Lee Hooker and T-Bone Walker perform, but it was also the first time I met Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Keith Richards, who came with us on the trip. We were all like-minded enthusiasts and in those days we regarded the artists we were going to see as idols.” ABC TV filmed the second show and broadcast it in two parts for its Tempo programme. The recordings (from the Newby collection) are of excellent sound quality and were taken off air by direct line into a Tandberg reel to reel recorder. RANDB059 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
Johnny Burch is probably best-known for songs he wrote in 1963 for Georgie Fame such as “In The Meantime” and “Preach and Teach”. This was at a time when the boundaries between modern jazz, rhythm and blues and beat music were being broken down at such places as the Flamingo and the Marquee. For a few months, Burch was leader of a group that included several musicians who found fame in the blues and rock scene of the late 60s such as Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. This CD features the earliest-known recordings of Bruce and Baker together in a live broadcast for the BBC from March 1963. It also contains five tracks from a session that Burch’s 1965 line-up recorded for BBC’s Band Beat. Burch was never a major figure in the London jazz scene but this collection highlights his group’s unique role which acted as a bridge between modern jazz and the nascent British R&B movement. RANDB055 Overall, an amazing collection of pieces, many obscure, some best described as period pieces but much to enjoy. Peter Vacher Jazzrag When one thinks of bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, the name of Eric Clapton immediately comes to mind since the three masterful musicians formed Cream. However the first time that Bruce and Baker played together was not in a rock group but back in 1963 as members of the Johnny Burch Octet. Pianist Johnny Burch (1932-2006) was part of the British jazz scene starting in 1959. After a period as a member of Allan Ganley’s Jazzmakers and with Don Rendell’s group, he evolved to become a leader in modern jazz without achieving much fame. He did get to accompany such visiting American greats as Freddie Hubbard, Red Rodney and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and wrote a few songs for the popular singer Georgie Fame. Jazzbeat has Burch at the head of two different octets, playing live in 1963 and 1965. These seven selections have so-so recording quality but are full of plenty of excitement with the numbers including “Moanin’,” “Del Sasser,” and Burch’s “Nightwalk.” On both broadcasts, the playing is top-notch and at the level of their American counterparts. The music is very much in the modern mainstream of the mid-1960s, forward-looking while never hinting at the music of Cream. Scott Yanow Los Angeles Jazz Scene Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). Comes with original printed CD inner plus booklet annotated by Simon Spillett. All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
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‘You might think that when you’ve been around for a long time and love music as much as we all do at Blues Matters, that we might become a little blasé receiving CDs to review. You’d be wrong...This is a staggering project, a sheer delight...You can stick a pin in anywhere and come up with a gem of a recording. What these records will present to even the most avid R&B aficionado is a revelation... lifting the lid on a buried treasure chest of arcane recordings, all in a style decades ahead of their time... Every one of these tracks is utterly satisfying. If you’re a true R&B fan, you will not experience a finer collection this year or any other. Exhilarating, educational, historical, but above all, extremely musical, a complete evening’s unforgettable R&B entertainment...Think you know your blues history? Think again. As this has taught me, you’re never too old to learn.’ ROY BAINTON Blues Matters RANDB030 -
Disc One 1. Speak Your Piece March 3rd 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 2. I’m On To You Baby March 3rd 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 3. Turn On Your Lovelight March 3rd 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 4. Bright Lights, Big City February 28th 1964 Hoochie Coochie Men 5. The 2.19 February 28th 1964 Hoochie Coochie Men 6. Mojo Working February 28th 1964 Ensemble 7. You're Breaking My Heart March 19th 1964 Long John Baldry/Blue Flames 8. Medley April 28th 1964 Long John Baldry/ Vernon Girls 9. Backwater Blues Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 10. St. James Infirmary Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 11. Time's Getting Tougher Than Tough Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 12. Speak Your Piece Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 13. Five Long Years Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 14. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 15. Stormy Monday Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 16. (We're Gonna) Jump For Joy August 8th 1965 Ensemble with Eric Burdon 17. Lord, Remember Me August 8th 1965 Steampacket 18. It’s All Right September 28th 1965 Steampacket 19. How Long Will It Last September 28th 1965 Steampacket 20. In The Midnight Hour September 28th 1965 Steampacket 21. Going To A Go Go June 7th 1966 Steampacket 22. The Drifter June 7th 1966 Steampacket 23. Everything's Gonna Be Alright June 7th 1966 Steampacket 24. I Didn't Want to Have to Do It June 7th 1966 Steampacket Disc Two 1. Filthy McNasty Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 2. Sunset Eyes Early 1965 Hoochie Coochie Men 3. She’s A Woman June 7th 1966 Brian Auger & The Trinity 4. Cuckoo January 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 5. Turn On Your Lovelight January 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 6. Morning Dew November 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 7. Let The Heartaches Begin November 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 8. Bad Luck Soul November 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 9. How Sweet It Is November 1967 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 10. Mexico May 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 11. Morning Of The Carnival May 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 12. Janine May 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 13. Better By Far August 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 14. When The Sun Comes Shining Thru’ August 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 15. The Drifter August 1968 Long John Baldry/Bluesology 16. Call It Stormy Monday Unknown Long John Baldry/Bluesology 17. I Can't Stand It June 5th 1965 Brian Auger & The Trinity 18. Fool Killer June 5th 1965 Brian Auger & The Trinity 19. Just Got Some Unknown Brian Auger & The Trinity 20. Rock Candy Unknown Brian Auger & The Trinity 21. Let's Do It Tonight June 5th 1965 Brian Auger & The Trinity 22. Loop De Loop June 5th 1965 Brian Auger & The Trinity -
1. My Babe (1) 2. Got My Mojo Working (1) 3. Leave My Woman Alone 4. Good Understanding 5. Country Line Special (1) 6. Got My Mojo Working (2) 7. Hallelujah All My Blues Have Gone 8. Roll 'Em Pete (1) 9. How Long, How Long 10. Sadness Done Come 11. See See Rider (1) 12. Country Line Special (2) 13. Careless Love 14. On A Monday 15. I'm Movin' On 16. Mockingbird 17. Night Time Is The Right Time 18. Harmonica Breakdown 19. Preaching the Blues 20. I'm Ready 21. Money's Getting Cheaper 22. Country Line Special (3) 23. My Babe (2) 24. Chicago Calling 25. See See Rider (2) 26. Country Line Special (4) 27. Hey Roberta 28. Roll 'em Pete (2) Tracks 22-23 recorded 1/8/1963 BBC Manchester as part of the Pop Go The Beatles show. Tracks 24-28 recorded 2/7/1963 BBC London. All other tracks were recorded for ATV TV Show Hullabaloo. (The widely published broadcast dates for these shows are unreliable.) Sound quality: Hullabaloo – excellent, BBC Manchester – very good, BBC London – listenable. -
In 1965, there were two types of group in the UK: those influenced strongly by the Beatles, and those whose raison d'être was American blues and R&B. In part this split would have come about because of the pioneering blues work from Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, who were both London based. Newcastle’s Animals and Belfast’s Them were the two biggest exceptions. Among the highlights of this CD set are the Animals’ contributions to a Granada TV show “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”. Check out the clip on the net - the camera sweeps across and Eric kicks into the a cappella intro to “Talkin’ ‘Bout You” supported only by hand clapping; there’s a flourish from Alan Price’s Vox and they’re off. Elsewhere the boys conjure up images of people like Pinetop Perkins via Ray Charles’ early classic “Mess Around”; they give us their take on the much recorded “See See Rider” which doesn’t owe a debt to anyone; and they deliver a swinging ”I Got To Find My Baby” with plenty of ad hoc extras from Eric. Several of those great hit singles (plus a flip plus some LP tracks) are here too, all benefitting from full “road testing”; Hooker’s “Boom Boom” is a stand -out with mood switching between intimacy and all out rocking. Round about the time the Animals‘ first single was released, I saw the band perform in one of those Central London clubs you have to go downstairs to reach. They were the toughest of the British R&B Groups. They were the real thing. Dave Stephens RANDB057 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. 24-page booklet included -
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- Big City Strut (Ian Carr)
- Trane's Mood (Michael Garrick)
- I Could Write A Book (Rodgers/Hart)
- Interplay (Bill Evans)
- She'll Be Back (Michael Garrick)
- Garrison '65 (Don Rendell)
- Hot Rod (Carr/Garrick)
- Ursula (Michael Garrick)
- Tan Samfu (Don Rendell)
- Sailin’* (Mike Carr)
- October Woman (Michael Garrick)
- The Sixth Seal* (Michael Garrick)
- Nimjam (Jeff Headley)
- Prayer (Michael Garrick)
- Secrets (Michael Garrick)
- Ruth (Don Rendell)
- Blue Doom (Rendell/Carr)
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- Around And Around
- Off The Hook
- Time Is On My Side
- It's All Over Now
- I'm Alright
- Let's Get Together
- Carol
- Not Fade Away
- Carol
- Mona
- Not Fade Away
- High Heel Sneakers
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- Ad Break – Rice Krispies
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- You Better Move On
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Beautiful Delilah
- Around And Around
- Time Is on My Side
- Not Fade Away
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- I'm Alright
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- Not Fade Away
- Not Fade Away (take 1)
- Beautiful Delilah
- Walking The Dog
- High Heel Sneakers
- Susie Q
- Mona
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In a comprehensive overview from 1927 to 1963, History of Soul Records’ 8CD anthology covers the genesis of soul music, tracing connections between R&B, jazz and blues, and gospel, the secular and the sacred. As popular black musical genres were adopted by white teenage audiences in the 1950s, black music reverted to more authentic, basic styles. By 1960, the sound of black popular music had turned away from a driving, largely uptempo rhythm and blues towards a more emotionally poignant style. The term ‘soul’ popped up here and there, but only became common parlance after the release of Ray Charles’s I Believe To My Soul at the end of 1959.
The growing Civil Rights movement, the rise of the 45rpm record and the introduction of the electric guitar all played their part in the creation of a new sound. Detroit had Berry Gordy’s Motown, Chicago had Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions and New York had Atlantic Records along with white songwriters Burt Bacharach and Jerry Ragavoy producing their uptown soul. Down south, Stax was setting Memphis alight, Fame were starting up in Muscle Shoals, and New Orleans was putting funk into the mix. By 1963, soul had gone mainstream. There were more soulful records in the charts in 1962 alone than there had been in the whole of the 1950s.
This collection of breathtaking blues and spiritual music brings you some of the most impassioned, compelling vocal performances ever to be recorded. The accompanying illustrated 36-page book sets out the historical background and explains some of the technical features that make these beautiful songs the precursors of soul music.
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
This one is a corker...every bit as epic as it sounds... It’s hard to know where to begin with such a monumental and thorough anthology – especially one as full of highlights as this
Lauren Laverne BBC 6 Music
Mammoth and magnificent anthology...While there can be no package large enough to represent all the players, Sacred To Secular has a worthy stab at it, excavating as close as possible to the core and acting both as a cultural document and an excellent crash course in one of music’s most epochal periods. Fiona Sturges Uncut
Embrace this journey through a lost era...the real thrill lies in discovering lesser names especially from the fringes of gospel, whose work is every bit as stirring Clive Davies Sunday Times
It’s common knowledge that soul developed largely from gospel; but that journey has never been as extensively mapped as on this eight-CD compilation 5 star review in The Independent
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