John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues   Chess LP 1454.   Early fifties recordings (When Hook was a younger stud) compiled and released by Chess in 1961.   Personnel: John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar.   (Eddie Kirkland guitar on “Just Me and My Telephone”.)   Studs Terkel writes the liner notes.   Another cool cover photo by Chess house photog Don Bronstein.   This is back porch music from the heart of the Delta.   “Although he often reworked themes by earlier bluesmen during this period, it was rare that Hooker outright covered another artist’s material. So his riveting interpretations of Muddy Waters’s ‘Please Don’t Go’ and Big Maceo Merriweather’s ‘Worried Life Blues’ peak this collection”

(56 votes, average: 4.41 out of 5)

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“Wailin’ with Winnie”   Winnie Gould with Larry Fontine and his Orchestra Bel Canto Records

(81 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5)

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Lamento Negro   Nelson Ferraz   Continental Records Brazil

(40 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Ruth Crockett at the Dual Keyboards   His Records Label (In Stereo of course)

Aside:   My family lived in Cleveland throughout the 1970’s.   The song “Funky Poodle” was written and performed by Steve Jochum in 1980 as a member of The Wild Horses.   The band, which formed at Ohio State in the mid-seventies , started out covering Rolling Stones songs (duh) and was voted the Number 1 band   in the Cleveland Area for 5 years.   The song is on the soundtrack of the 2006 movie “You, Me and Dupree” starring Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson.

(65 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5)

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“Rock-and-Roll In Hi-Fi”   THE ATOMICS     Musidisc Records

(49 votes, average: 4.10 out of 5)

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E Facil Ser Feliz   Moacyr Franco Copacabana Records

(25 votes, average: 3.44 out of 5)

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“Donkey Debka”   Young Israel Sings   Ron & Nama   Elektra Records

(28 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)

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Discoteca da Saudade   Zico mazagao e Orquestra   Chantecler Records

(27 votes, average: 3.04 out of 5)

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Musica e Penumbra (Vol. 2)   “Fats” Elpidio e seu Conjunto   RCA Victor Brazil

(68 votes, average: 4.01 out of 5)

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“All-Star Rock and Roll”   An Atlantic Records EP from the early days of “rock and roll” which really means the R&B stars of the day like Ivory Joe Hunter, Clyde McPhatter, Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker.

(49 votes, average: 3.73 out of 5)

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