musicology #0622
24 Dec 2010 2 Comments
in America, Christmas, femalevocalsUSA, Rhythm&Blues, Soul, themusicologist Tags: Christmas Rhythm and Blues mp3, Hadda Brooks mp3, Irving Berlin, themusicologist, white christmas mp3
ChristmasComing #15
Hadda Brooks – White Christmas
Can’t believe that I haven’t already laid it down on themusicologist over the last 4 years..!! For me the BEST version of this Irving Berlin penned classic courtesy of the MAJESTIC Hadda ‘Queen Of The Boogie’ Brooks.
LISTEN TUNE…
musicology #0619
16 Dec 2010 2 Comments
in America, Christmas, Rhythm&Blues, Soul Tags: 1947, 1968, charles brown, christmas soul mp3, eddie williams, Irving Berlin, johnny moore, Lou Baxter, Merry Christmas Baby mp3, Oscar Moore, Otis Redding mp3, The Three Blazers, themusicologist, White Christmas
ChristmasComing #12
Otis Redding – Merry Christmas Baby
Sticking with the 60′s Soul festivities with this cut from none other than the legendary ‘Big O’.. I’m led to believe that this one was released in 1968?? which would make it a year after he ‘boarded the train’ to the pearly gates..if it was then it would have be synoymous with themusicologist as I was born in the month of December, in the year of the Earth Monkey whilst revolution filled the air. Having already laid Otis’ majestic rendition of Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ down two years ago I’m very happy to be bringing this version of Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore’s Rhythm & Blues Christmas classic ‘Merry Christmas Baby’ to the festive table..First recorded by the Three? Blazers, (Johnny Moore, his brother Oscar, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams), in 1947.
Listen Tune….
musicology #0617
13 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in America, Christmas, Rhythm&Blues, vocal group Tags: Christmas Music mp3, Doo Wop Christmas, Santa Claus Boogie mp3, The Voices, themusicologist
ChristmasComing #10
The Voices – Santa Claus Boogie
Sticking with the Rhythm & Blues selection…Hold this piece from the ‘golden age’ courtesy of Vocal Group The Voices.
musicology #0616
11 Dec 2010 1 Comment
in America, Christmas, femalevocalsUSA, Rhythm&Blues, vocal group Tags: Christmas Music mp3, Doo Wop Christmas music, Gonna Have A Merry Xmas mp3, Johnny Otis, Mickey Champion mp3, Rhythm and Blues Christmas mp3, The Nic Nacs mp3, themusicologist, vocal group mp3, West Coast Doo Wop mp3
ChristmasComing #9
The Nic Nacs – Gonna Have A Merry Xmas
Moving out of the festive sounds of Jamaica and into this majestic slice of West Coast Rhythm and Blues/Doo Wop/Vocal Group Christmas action from the Nic Nacs, fronted in the finest style by the vocal talents of Mickey Champion who has been working it since being ‘discovered’ by the Legendary band leader Johnny Otis in L.A back in the mists of time…BOSS tune.
musicology #0613
08 Dec 2010 1 Comment
in America, blues, Christmas, Rhythm&Blues Tags: christmas blues mp3, Christmas music, Christmas Rhythm and Blues mp3, Gatemouth Moore mp3, themusicologist
ChristmasComing #6
Gatemouth Moore – Christmas Blues
Today’s cut is courtesy of little known prewar blues icon, powerhouse singer and influential composer Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, who turned his back on the world of ‘popular’ music in the late 40′s to serve as a minister, (preceeding the host of Gospel singers who went the ‘other way’ in the years that followed). Superb downtempo festive cut from the man whose nom de plume was a reference to the strength of his voice.
musicology #0607
04 Nov 2010 5 Comments
in America, blues, mod/ern/ist, Rhythm and Jazz, Rhythm&Blues, Rock and Roll Tags: 1938, amos milburn, Big Joe Turner mp3, Blues 'N' Rhythm mp3, Boogie woogie, Count Basie, ike turner, Jump, Kansas City, Louis Jordan, mod/ern/ist music, pete johnson mp3, Rocket 88, Roll 'Em Pete mp3, roots of rock and roll, themusicologist, Wynonnie Harri
Blues’N'Rhythm #2
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson – Roll ‘Em Pete
As important as Sam Cooke was to Soul, Big Joe took Jump, Boogie Woogie, Blues and Rhythm rolled them all up into a package and fathered Rock & Roll. Of course there were others who contributed, (Louis Jordan, Count Basie, Amos Milburn, Wynonnie Harris to name but 4), and as with all ‘Popular’ music no one person was responsible but as Doc Pomus is quoted to have said “Rock & Roll would never have happened without him…and as previously mentioned on themusicologist the dynamic duo’s late 40′s cut ‘Rocket 88 Boogie’ was the ‘inspiration’ behind Ike Turner’s seminal ‘Rocket 88′, a tune that has long been canonised into Rock and Roll history..
Today’s cut was recorded in the Big Apple on December 30th 1938…I’ll repeat that 1938 and released on a Columbia 78, which I was planning on laying down here but in truth it’s a piece scratchy !! so instead it’s the (top quality 24 bit), remastered version that certainly does the original justice….I can only imagine what it would have been like to witness these two in action back in Kansas City in the 1930′s a musical hotbed that kicked every bit as hard as Chicago, New Orleans and New York…Roll ‘Em Pete….
musicology #0599
15 Oct 2010 2 Comments
in Allen Toussaint, America, mod/ern/ist, Rhythm&Blues, vocal group Tags: General Norman Johnson, Joe Banashak, Minit Label, Modernist mp3, rhythm and blues mp3, The Owl Sees You mp3, The Showmen mp3, themusicologist, vocal group mp3
Flow #18
The Showmen – The Owl Sees You
Today’s cut is In memory of another Soul man who has left us…General Norman Johnson..whose voice rose to prominence first as Lead for the Showmen and then Chairman Of The Board. This was one of their, (unreleased), demo’s sent to Joe Banashak whose Minit label ranks high on themusicologist’s list of supreme Rhythm & Blues/Soul labels. Why this marrow trembler went unreleased is beyond me…Norman Johnson Rest In Peace…gone but never forgotten.
musicology #580
15 Sep 2010 7 Comments
in America, Mod, mod/ern/ist, Rhythm&Blues, vocal group Tags: Billy Lockridge, Elvis Presley, Find out what's happening mp3, Lee Roy Cunningham, Michael Young, mOare music festival, Modernist mp3, Nancy Sinatra, rhythm and blues mp3, the scene, The Spidells mp3, Wallace Brown
mOareEssentials #3
(The Spidells – Find Out What’s Happening)
Busy designing today so bit late with the 3rd instalment of the mOare selection…also I’m in the kitchen rustling up the evening meal, (Bangers & Mash), so It will have to be hit and run today while I’m running…Hold this TOP RANKING slice of Rhythm & Blues by the Spidells, (Lee Roy Cunningham, Wallace Brown, Billy Lockridge and Michael Young)..later covered by Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra and others. No prizes for guessing which one themusicologist favours. BIG Mod/ern/ist cut.
musicology #575
08 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in America, femalevocalsUSA, mod/ern/ist, Rhythm&Blues Tags: 1964, 60's soul mp3, Atlantic Records, Little Esther Phillips mp3, Mojo Hannah mp3, themusicologist
Essential Cuts #5
(Little Esther Phillips – Mojo Hannah)
Fuck the words…hold this ESSENTIAL, (1964), Rhythm & Blues cut from one of the GREAT female vocalists.
musicology #567
22 Aug 2010 4 Comments
in Funk, instrumental, Jazz, Rhythm and Jazz, Rhythm&Blues, themusicologist, UKPressure Tags: Acid Jazz, Dean Drury, Eddie Harris, Eddie Piller, G-Spot, George Benson, Get Carter mp3, Graham Fox, Grant Green, Mark Brown, Nick Etwell, Nigel Price, Pete Whittaker, The Filthy Six mp3, themusicologist, Vintage Goodwood, Wes Montgomery
Down The Road Apiece #3
(The Filthy Six – Get Carter)
Continuing with the Vintage @ Goodwood story…(can’t believe it was a week ago !!), Saturday morning after a few hours kip, (had the breakfast call at 8:30), I crept back up to the site at around 11am and drifted around on my ‘jacks’ without much purpose until I caught a mesmerising sound floating on the breeze that compelled me to investigate further. The music was so tightly woven together it was almost like one sound…harmony. Not blowing my own trumpet but I have heard a LOT of what I consider to be superb, and I try not to use that, (or any other), word lightly, music over the years and this was no exception. The location was the ‘Soul Stage’, (curated by Eddie Piller), the scene of much of the weekends entertainment as far as I was concerned and, as is often the case I allowed my ears to be my guide….The band on stage were playing what I like to call a blend of ‘Rhythm & Jazz’ in the mould of such luminaries as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Eddie Harris etc. My initial interest was in the guitar playing and my intention was to just give it a listen and then float off and take in the rest of the festival but the ‘Six were SO good that I couldn’t leave until the end of their set.
Quality music does that for me..once It starts I just can’t walk away until it’s finished. It was truly inspirational made even better in that I wasn’t expecting it. Basically it set the tone for the rest of the weekend which just got better and better. To finish the story later in the day I caught up with Eddie and raved about what I had just witnessed and found out that he had just released their set on his Acid Jazz Label. I kid you not ‘The Filthy Six’ are Quality with a capital Q. So in memory of my ‘discovery’ I’m laying this one on you which KICKS from start to finish.
The Tune is a rendition of the theme tune from seminal, cult English film ‘Get Carter’ which is particularly serendipitous for me as it was the first film I composed an alternative soundtrack for many moons ago when cutting and pasting film dialogue and combining it with alternative musicology was NOT done on the computer…since then I have composed alternative soundtracks for The Good Bad & The Ugly, Quadrophenia, 12 Angry Man and The Hustler and it’s about time I got another one together…
The Filthy Six are Nick Etwell, Mark Brown, Nigel Price, Pete Whittaker, Dean Drury and Graham Fox and I’m looking forward to catching them at Soul, Soul, Soul a G Spot event next week, (Sep 3rd), at ‘home’ in Soho, (London)
Listen Tune…..
musicology #563
08 Aug 2010 4 Comments
in America, instrumental, Mod, Rhythm&Blues Tags: 1966, 60s Soul Instrumental mp3, Earl Palmer, Googie Rene Combo mp3, Johnny Guitar Watson, Leon Rene, Modernist mp3, Plas Johnson, rene hall, rhythm and blues mp3, Smokey Joe's La La mp3, themusicologist
Tales From The Underground #5
Googie Rene Combo – Smokey Joe’s La La
Superb 1966 Rhythm & Blues instrumental and well known mod stomper from West Coast cats The Googie Rene Combo. Son of songwriter Leon Rene, Rafael Leon ‘Googie’ Rene was a suberb instrumentalist who led a combo full of legendary musicians that at various times included Plas Johnson, Rene Hall, Johnny Guitar Watson and Earl Palmer…
Special request to ‘Jumbo’…Hold tight.
musicology #557
09 Jul 2010 1 Comment
in America, duets, femalevocalsUSA, Mod, Rhythm&Blues, Soul Tags: 1964, Charlie and Inez Foxx mp3, Juggy Murray, Mod music, New York Soul, rhythm and blues mp3, Symbol 45, themusicologist
Shake It Up & Go #4
(Inez & Charlie Foxx – Hurt By Love)
Continuing with the Shake selection that I threw down last weekend. 1964, (New York), cut on Juggy Murray’s Symbol label.
musicology #555
07 Jul 2010 1 Comment
in America, femalevocalsUSA, Mod, Rhythm&Blues Tags: 1962, Ike and Tina Turner mp3, Ikettes, Juggy Murray, mod 45, Rhythm and Blues 45 mp3, sue 45, themusicologist
Shake It Up & Go #2
(Ike & Tina Turner – Tina’s Dilemma)
Part two of the ‘Shake’ selection that I played on Saturday night. Big Rhythm & Blues cut courtesy of the Trailblazing Ike Turner, featuring Tina on vocals and, I imagine, the Iketttes on backup.
I remember when I laid down a tribute to Ike on themusicologist to mark his passing I found myself in dialogue with some who felt it was their duty to remind me of his treatment of Tina and pour scorn on the man for his behaviour. I replied that themusicologist is a page for honouring music and passing judgement on peoples ‘business’ holds absolutely no interest for me. Personally I have never laid a hand on a woman or bullied anyone but I have seen the results of it for myself and knew the couple very well and I remember asking her, (as I found it impossible to comprehend), why she stayed to which she replied wholeheartedly that she loved him….who was I to argue.
45 on Juggy Murray’s Sue Label released in the pivotal year of 1962, (important year for mod/ernists)
Listen Tune…
musicology #459
17 Dec 2009 1 Comment
in America, blues, Christmas, Rhythm&Blues Tags: Aladdin label, Amos Milburn Christmas mp3, Christmas Rhythm and Blues mp3, Louis Jordan, Robert Burns, themusicologist
TheManWithTheBag #9
(Amos Milburn – Let’s Make Christmas Merry Baby)
Intended on breaking the mould today and throwing the cut early?, (unless of course you’re in NYC, LA, ‘Chi’ or pretty much any State in America), but as Robert Burns wrote:
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!”
So stick that in yer pipes and smoke it !! while we slide into this cut from one of the great Rhythm & Blues pioneers Amos Milburn who, (along with Louis Jordan), had a major impact on the transition from swing to Rhythm & Blues in the mid 1940′s. recorded in 1949 for Eddie & Leo Mesner’s powerhouse Aladdin label, (the home of West Coast Rhythm & Blues).
musicology #506
03 Mar 2010 1 Comment
by themusicologist in America, Rhythm&Blues, Social Commentary, Soul Tags: Atlantic records mp3, bob dylan, Maggies Farm mp3, rhythm and blues mp3, Solomon Burke mp3, themusicologist
CoversWeek2 #3
(Solomon Burke – Maggies Farm)
bit later than expected on yesterday’s George Benson cut so I’m laying today’s slice of the covers pie down early…before I get sidetracked with my load. Cat still has my tongue a piece so without further delay hold Solomon Burke’s Rhythm & Blues version of Bob Dylan’s protest song. Especially poignant in the 21st Century as ‘Maggie’s Farm’ is well on the way to selling us into a desolate future full of debt, fear and loathing. Watch the ride, make sure you wear your seatbelt and brace yourself for the crash…heading our way sometime over the next 2/3 years.
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