“Reddy Teddy’s Rowdy Roundup” TFM-100. Crazy titles here like “When the Iron in Your Blood Turns to Lead in Your Pencil”! Cool illustration with that leopard skin bikini bottom and tail! Unlikely you’ll ever see this record again and I’m guessing there never was a TFM-101.
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“BLUESette” Savoy Records. 1959. Curtis Fuller’s Quintet with Benny Golson, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Garrison and Al Harewood. DAMN. Just writing these names conjures up the feeling of soul jazz, hard bop and a time of amazing musical excitement. The songs here are It’s Alright With Me; Wheatleith Hall; I’ll Walk Alone; Arabia; and Judy’s Dilemma.
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Everyone loves Jim Flora’s covers. Here’s a nice little 45 picture sleeve for a smile. “The War of the Bands Concert” The combined orchestras of Ralph Flanagan and Buddy Morrow. RCA-Victor 3211.
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FAT DADDY presents greatest oldies from the kingdom.
Baltimore. The 1960’s. 6:00 AM. Anywhere near a radio and WINN. Paul “Fat Daddy” Johnson, the “300-pound King of Soul” speaks soul jive, his outrageous monologues roll forth with gospel-like fervor.” “Hear me now,” he hisses into the mike. “Up from the very soul of breathing. Up from the orange crates. From the ghetto through the suburban areas comes your leader of rhythm and blues, the expected one – Fat Daddy, the soul boss with the hot sauce. Built for comfort, not for speed. Everyone loves a fat man! The Fat Daddy show is guaranteed to satisfy momma. I’m gonna go way out on a limb on this one, Baltimore. Fat poppa, show stoppa.”
Ringing bells give way to several pulses of the organ followed by the recorded voice of a young girl saying, “lay it on me, Fat Daddy, lay it on me.”
“Fat Daddy, your king, and I’ve got soul for you. This is for all the foxes wakin’ up this morning. Here’s a soul kiss for ya, mmmmmmmmh! From the lips of the high priest, from the depth of a fat man’s soul…”
Fat Daddy was only 40 when he died in Los Angeles in 1978. Esquire, Cashbox, and Billboard have acclaimed him as one of the top five R&B disc jockeys in America, while Record World magazine called him simply the No. 1 soul man in the nation.
Here some sound clips of Fat Daddy at www.artweb.org
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“The Puffing Billy Song” with Alan Rowe.
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“Ole!” Joe Loco Quintet on Fantasy. 1960.
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“Way Out…Far” The Lewis Sisters Liberty Records. (1960) Helen and Kaye went on to record as “the Singing School Teachers” and recorded and wrote for Motown Records! Equally odd is this cover which is dark and creepy (in a peeping tom kinda way) on one hand and squeeky clean on the other.
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