“Sexual I.Q. Test” (1972) Score YOURSELF. Recommended for GROUP PARTICIPATION as well as individual (editor’s note: !). “100 intimate questions to PROBE your sex life.” “Asks you about: Your Sexual Attitudes – Your Sexual Technique – Lovemaking, Intercourse, THE ORGASM and You – ORAL Sex, Erotica and Fantasy” “Learn … whether you are sexually superior, sexually average or sexually below average. Learn about your loved ones and friends as well” (editor’s note: !) Sample question: “It arouses me sexually to see my sex partner naked” True or False (editor’s note: !)
“Louis and the Good Book” Louis Armstrong with the Sy Oliver Choir and the All-Stars (1958) Decca Records
This is a collection of gospel songs, spirituals, homilies, and comic vignettes. This is Armstrong at his most essential. It’s the real honest him. Armstrong takes a few trumpet solos, but his voice is what is showcased, and God is honored here.
Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Sy Oliver Choir (vocals); Trummy Young (trombone); Hank D’Amico, Edmond Hall, Dave McRae (clarinet); Billy Kyle (piano); Nickie Tragg, Harry Mills (organ); George Barnes (guitar); Joe Benjamin, Mort Herbert (bass); Johnny Blowers, Barrett Deems (drums). Backed by a gospel vocal group led by jazz arranger Sy Oliver.
Recorded in August 1950 in New York, New York. Produced by Mort Gabler. Liner notes by Martin Williams.,
Includes: “Ezekiel Saw De Wheel,” “Going to Shout All Over God’s Heaven,” and “Didn’t it Rain,” as well as “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” from GUYS AND DOLLS. Also “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” “Shadrack,” “Go Down, Moses,” “Rock My Soul,” “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel,” “On My Way,” “Down by the Riverside,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” “Jonah and the Whale,” and “This Train”
February 15th, 2009 in
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Barbara Lewis “Workin’ On A Groovy Thing” Atlantic Records (1968) Listen up: workin-on-a-groovy-thing
Patti Drew “Workin’ On A Groovy Thing” Capitol Records (1968) Listen up: workin-on-a-groovy-thing
One of my favorite soul songs, “Workin’ On A Groovy Thing” was actually written by Neil Sedaka. It was first recorded by Chicago songstress Patti Drew for Capitol Records in 1968. Barbara Lewis’ version (top) followed Patti’s that same year. (The next year it became a bigger hit for “The 5th Dimension” which, as they did with others’ songs many times, charted with a “poppier” version.)
