Relax, don’t do it
(35 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)
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“Here’s the man…I mean the man…”
“…the dynamic, Bobby, Bobby Bland!” One of the greatest intros ever to a blazing first song: “36-24-36” and followed by an all-time great album of dynamite blues! On Duke Records.
(14 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5) Loading ...Grammy winner
Jan & Dan “The Little Old Lady from Pasadena” on Liberty Records.
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“Ja-Ja-Pacha” by the Orquesta Aragon on the great Latin jazz label Discuba.
(20 votes, average: 4.55 out of 5) Loading ...My first bootleg
“The Jean-Clarke Mammorial (sic) Sonic Barbecue.” This was the first bootleg that I ever bought. And it’s a good one! Below is the back cover with Brian, Keith and Mick living up to their bad boy reputation and no doubt commenting on the West German tour dates recorded here (though Brian was long gone and Mick Taylor was in).
(42 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5) Loading ...Toots sweet!
“The Sensational Maytals” Recorded in 1965, shortly after their stint with Prince Buster, this record features a bigger, more polished sound than their earliest ska songs. The Ronnie Nasralla/Byron Lee produced LP is packed with ska hits from beginning to end. From rowdy ska hits like “It’s You” and “Fever” to deeply soulful ballads like “Daddy” and “It’s No Use” this album proves that the Maytals are indeed sensational. – Maytals.net
The band’s musical career was rudely interupted in late 1966 when founder and leader Toots Hibbert was arrested and imprisoned on drugs possession charges.
Following Hibbert’s release from jail towards the end of 1967, the band officially changed their name to Toots and the Maytals and began working with Chinese-Jamaican producer Leslie Kong, a collaboration which produced three classic albums and a string of hits throughout the late sixties and early seventies – “Do the Reggay”, a 1968 single widely credited with coining the word reggae, “Pressure Drop”, “54-46 was my number” and “Monkey Man”, the group’s first international hit in 1970 . The group was featured in one of reggae’s greatest breakthrough events – The Harder They Come, the 1972 film and soundtrack starring Jimmy Cliff, named as one of Vanity Fair’s Top 10 Best Soundtracks of all time.
Following Kong’s death in 1971, the group continued to record with Kong’s former sound engineer, Warwick Lyn; produced by Lyn and Chris Blackwell of Island Records, the group released three best-selling albums, and enjoyed international hits with Funky Kingston in 1973 and Reggae Got Soul in 1976.
(24 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5) Loading ...Scatman!
Before parts in “The King of Marvin Gardens,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” and “The Shining” with Jack Nicholson and supporting roles in 1960’s and 70’s TV shows and blaxploitation movies, Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers sang and danced and wrote jazz and early R&B and Rock ‘n Roll. Here’s a cool low budget lp of his. Find a copy of his song “Keep That Coffee Hot” too!
(13 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Hit me two times!
Frat rockers The Swingin’ Medallions and their frat party fave “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)”. Springsteen used to drop this into his encore medley at live shows. Nice slacks guys.
(13 votes, average: 2.15 out of 5) Loading ...SOoooul Train
The hits that made it happen baby! with Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Four Tops, Billy Paul, James Brown, The O’Jays, Barbara Mason and the host with the most afro, Don Cornelious. This is one “bad” (as in “good”) comp – and it’s only $3.98! That’s right soul brothers and soul sisters, only $3.98! So don’t delay, order yours today! (On the “as seen on TV” label ADAM VII) (Correction: ADAM VIII)
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