Joe Tex - The Best Of Joe Tex

Joe Tex – The Best Of Joe Tex Label: Parrot – PA 61002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Country: US Released: 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop Style: Soul, Vocal Tracklist A1 Say Thank You 2:36 A2 Old Time Lovers 2:35 A3 I Had A Good Home (Part One) 2:28 A4 I Had A Good Home (Part Two) 3:02 A5 Hand Shakin' Love Makin' Girl Talkin' Son-Of-A-Gun From Next Door 2:08 A6 Meet Me In Church 2:17 B1 Someone To Take Your Place 2:45 B2 The Peck 2:35 B3 The Only Girl (I've Ever Loved) 2:35 B4 What Should I Do 2:07 B5 I Wanna Be Free 2:50 B6 I Let Her Get Away 2:44 Credits Written-By – Crutchfield* (tracks: A5), Joe Tex Joe Tex - The Best Of Joe Tex

Roy Johnson And The Outlaws - Forgive Me Baby

Great funky lo-fi soul jam from Roy Johnson and the Outlaws. I have no idea who Mr. Johnson was/is, nor anything about his Outlaws, but i reckon he fashioned himself a James Brown wanna be.... Heh. I love this tune and slight ineptness and lo-fi sound. Dudes with some drinks and just jamming it out hard. This is one of the first 45's i picked up years ago when i started to think out of the box of record collecting and picking up things i knew nothing about but looked cool. I think i paid a dollar at a thrifty store. Score.

Roy Johnson And The Outlaws - Forgive Me Baby

Woody Herman - Freedom Jazz Dance

I always thought that Woody Herman was sorta lame. I'm not really a big band jazz guy so i didn't think much of this 45 when i found it but this is some seriously Unexpected Funkiness.

Woody Herman - Freedom Jazz Dance

The Charmaines - Keep On Seachin ' / Smile

To those out there that think social media is a total waste of time, let me present this 45 to you. While I agree a lot of social media is a dump for the self absorbed, occasionally it can have positive results. In this case, it provided me with this 45 on the cheap, from a relative stranger, a person who I follow on instagram. I knew nothing about this 45 (and still don't) but the person who i follow (not gonna mention any names unless dude tell me otherwise and is cool with it) posted this 45 w/ a sound clip saying he picked up 2 copies on the cheap. i made a low offer half kidding and he upped it by a slight margin. A couple of days later and it showed up in my mail box. Sweet. Just goes to show that there are still cool folks out there in the world. Now enjoy this great soulful funky 45 from 1969 on the Minit Record label by The Charmaines. Cheers!
dd

The Charmaines - Keep On Searchin'

The Charmaines - Smile

Johnny Keyes - What's Your Sign?

Well?

Johnny Keyes - What's Your Sign?

The Exceptions - Pancho's Villa

The Exceptions - Pancho's Villa

The Chevelles - The Gallop

Another well played flea market find. The Chevelles doing The Gallop on the Flaming Arrow record label from 1968. It's a funky little intrumental with a grooving bass line and funky horns. Not bad for 25 cents...

The Chevelles - The Gallop

Steel Wool - Hold On, I'm Comin'

Rare cover tune of the famous Sam & Dave track by Steel Wool from 1970. This 45 has seen better days but it's a pretty cool cut with some fine guitar work & vocals. I got this in a deal where i bought some punk rock records and dude threw in some pretty trashed soul 45's. So please excuse the pop and hiss. Get past that and enjoy some fuzzy ax work and strong funky vocals.

Steel Wool - Hold On, I'm Comin'

The Brothers Three - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Pt 1 & Pt II

Three Isley Brothers getting funking heavy....

The Brothers Three - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Pt 1

The Brothers Three - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out Pt II

Eddie James - Her Mamma Won't Leave Us Alone - Sad Sad Feeling

Just picked this 45 up on the cheap and thought i'd throw it up. I aint got much to say but I've been getting some awesome spam on the blog that i thought i'd share.

If it isn't two people and a bed, with a fleshlight on one end, and a viewer should be able to reach the orgasm. Why treat it like something is 465 people. Some 12-step programs are available for viewing.

If it isn't two people and a bed, with a fleshlight on one end, and a viewer should be able to reach the orgasm. Why treat it like something is 465 people. Some 12-step programs are available for viewing.

Occasionally browsing through videos online I'd see others using their artificial vaginas, and you can do to improve or maintain the count and quality.

However, there are bacteria on those tiny holes on your Artificial Vagina because this sex toy out there, from vibrators since it seems Walrus semen is the Arctic Sea's version of Nessie and Bigfoot.

Lol They just released a new life like anatomically correct Artificial Vagina! On the Anonymity of Singing Assholes Now Pink Flamingos plays on television! Strange ticking noises from appliances or walls/roof.

As for Eddie James, i got nothing, but i found some info on the awesome and always informative Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven:

Eddie James probably cam from Tennessee as all his recordings came from the state. His Startown single appeared on a Chattanooga label and is a simple but effective midpaced item which suffers from a low budget production. Both his King 45s from the early 70s are much better. They were cut at the Starday/King studios in Nashville and benefit from the experienced session men there. Reap What You Sow is a fine country slowie featuring subdues strings and some tasteful electric piano but (I Can’t Get Used To) Livin’ Without You is a real gem. A beautifully rendered country soul ballad with some lovely picked and chorded guitar and piano fills. Eddie’s voice is gentle and concerned with just enough “rasp” to make the lyric meaningful.

These are real throwback discs at a time when wah wah guitars and funky keyboards were all the rage – no wonder they didn’t sell. But the timeless nature of this sort of music means that it lasts so much better than the transient nature of “today’s sound”.

Eddie James - Her Mamma Won't Leave Us Alone

Eddie James - Sad Sad Feeling

Nova's Nine - Pain

Nova's Nine from Statesville, North Carolina.

The band formed from Gary Brown's earlier band, Creations, and the Mann brothers', Firebirds. Ultimately they became students of Huxley and changed their name to Brave New World. As Nova's Nine, they recorded "Pain" in 1968 on Heritage Records, later picked up by ABC.

For a nice little "pain" story check out Echo's In The Wind.

I see this tagged as Northern Soul (must be the horns?) but it has a Garage rock feel to me.... Love that organ in the background.

As with many songs from the era, it is way too short and man, it sure woulda been cool if they threw a fuzz guitar solo in there.

Any way, cool tune. Check it out.

Nova's Nine - Pain

Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 1 & Part 2

This record makes me feel good. And not just because the tunes are great but because this was a gift from a friend that came just at the right time. I hadn't been feeling to well starting last wed. night and on through the weekend. I wound up going to the hospital Monday night with what i found out was acute appendicitis. With in a few hours i was in the operating room. A quick night at the hospital and return home to a new package sent from a record friend who has been more generous through the years with vinyl than i can ever re-pay him back. So i know i've gone on rants before about record ass-wipes and how many unscrupulous record jerks there out out there but for everyone of those there seems to be more "good guys" than bad. This is from one of them. The good guys.

Thanks brother!

As for Sir Mack Rice and this track:

Mack Rice (born Bonnie Rice, November 10, 1933, Clarksdale, Mississippi), is an American songwriter, whose compositions have been performed by many well-known artists, including The Staple Singers, Ike and Tina Turner, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Shirley Brown, Rufus Thomas, Etta James, Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Buddy Guy, The Rascals, Wilson Pickett, Albert Collins, Busta Rhymes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Clay and The Blues Brothers (in Blues Brothers 2000).
Some of his better-known songs include "Respect Yourself", "Betcha Can't Kiss Me (Just One Time)", "Cheaper to Keep Her", "Cadillac Assembly Line", "Money Talks", "Cold Women With Warm Hearts", "Do the Funky Penguin, Pt. 1", "It Sho Ain't Me", "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'", among others. His best known composition and only hit as a solo performer is "Mustang Sally."
Rice began his work in the R&B field in the 1950s based in Detroit, performing with the Five Scalders in 1956 and with the Falcons (fellow band members included Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett and Joe Stubbs) from 1957 to 1963. He performed as a solo vocalist in the years to follow, but his biggest successes were as songwriter for other artists on labels like Stax and others in the 1960s and following decades. He began his solo vocalist career at Stax in 1967, recording on Atco Records beginning in 1968. Rice is one of the few musicians whose career touched both Motown and Stax Records.
In 1992, backed by the soul band The Dynatones, Rice released his first solo album, "Right Now" on Blue Suit Records. On it he reprises a number of his hit songs along with a mixture of new tunes.
Rice lives in the Detroit area, and is still performing.

The tune from 1975 but it right at the year when funk started turning disco but it's still funky enough to stay clear of the disco ready for the dancefloor production or corniness of later years disco syrup....


Cheers!
dd


Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 1

Sir Mack Rice - Dark Skinned Woman - Part 2

Funkhouse Express - Get Into Funky Music

Another funky flea market find here with Funkhouse Express doing Get Into Funky Music from 1975. Its a little laid back disco/funk jam that just slides along with a smooth groove. It's not stone mint but i aint complaining for a buck.

Funkhouse Express - Get Into Funky Music

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through) - John Fuzz

First post in a few weeks due to life being crazy and Hurricane Sandy.... Any way just gonna jump right into the music w/ this little funky R&B 45. This here sounds a bit like a little more funky version of "The Coasters" I could not find much about this 45 except from what i lifted below from the great "FUNKY VIRGINA" blog.

Enjoy.

"John Fuzz" is rockin' R'n'B that could be straight outta the early 60's. Opening with the theme from "Dragnet", "John Fuzz" lays out the misadventures of a sad sack cop who gets hit in the head with a mustard jar while trying to break up a domestic dispute, slips on a banana peel while walking his beat, and ends up in the hospital with a busted jaw after trying to recover a stolen car. Then in the final verse there's a slight change of heart as the cop's tormentors sort of take pity on the poor underpaid officer, a nice enough guy who never complains, even when he saved that kid stuck in a pipe. "He's alright!", they declare. Gee, thanks!

"John Fuzz" is more in line with the "novelty" tag applied to many of Guida's records. Apparently, Frank must have believed in this odd ball ditty on some level, because he waited another two years to re-release it (not an uncharacteristic move) as the debut of his New Faces '69 label. This time around "Fuzz" was preposterously credited to The Virginia's Employment Commission with the parenthetical tag "Hire Through". Is there any way the actual state agency known as the Virginia Employment Commission signed off on this? Seems unfathomable, but Mr. Guida could be very persuasive, and it was the late 60's.

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through)- John Fuzz

Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk

When i was about 5 or 6 i was way into horror movies and comic books. i begged my mom to buy me this plastic 6 foot glow in the dark Frankenstein from the back of a comic. I was so psyched when it finally came and immediately hung it up on the back of my bedroom door. Well later that night when it was bed time i had this 6 foot glow in the dark monster staring at me while i was trying to sleep. i ran out of the room and went and slept with mom....

Now some years later i wish i still had that stupid thing and i've tried to find one and they go for like a hundred bucks.... fuck that shit. But if someone has one for a dollar i'll buy it from you..... heh....

anyway, Happy Halloween!



Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk

Lloyd Price - Bad Conditions

I guess not much has changed since this record was cut and with Hurricane Sandy ready to render some "Bad Conditions" here on the East Coast I give you a funky little tale from Mr. Personality Lloyd Price.

Enjoy, and if your in Sandy's path be safe....

Dongs removed due to a DMCA complaint...

Lloyd Price - Bad Conditions

Willie Colón - MC2 (Theme Realidades)

Latin Funk Supreme!

The Devil's Music quietly slipped passed 1 million hits over the labor Day Weekend and i was to busy out & about to really do any "blog" celebrating, but I did pick up this wicked Latin funk 45 for a mere 50 cents over the weekend. So here goes, in honor of my one millionth hit.... MC2 by Willie Colon from 1975 on the Fania label.

As for Mr. Colon, here is his Wiki:

William Anthony Colón (born 28 April 1950) is a Nuyorican salsa musician. Primarily a trombonist, Colón also sings, writes, produces and acts. He is also involved in municipal politics in New York City.

Willie Colón was born in the South Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents. He picked up the trumpet from a young age, and later switched to trombone, inspired by the all-trombone sound of Mon Rivera and Barry Rogers. He spent some summers at his maternal grandmother’s sister’s (La finca de Celín y Ramón) farm in in the outskirts of Manatí, Puerto Rico on the road to neighboring Ciales, Puerto Rico.[1]
He was signed to Fania Records at 15 and recorded his first album at age 17, which ultimately sold more than 300,000 copies. Due to fortuitous events, the main record producer at Fania at the time, Johnny Pacheco, recommended Héctor Lavoe to him.[2]
Mr. Colón has been a civil rights, community and political activist since the age of 16. He has served as a member of the Latino Commission on AIDS and the United Nations Immigrant Foundation, President of the Arthur Schomburg Coalition for a Better New York, member of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.[3] In 1995, Mr. Colón became the first minority to serve on the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) national board and is now a member of the ASCAP FOUNDATION.[4][5]

Musical career

Beyond the trombone, he has also worked as a composer, arranger, and singer, and eventually as a producer and director. Combining elements of jazz, rock, and salsa, his work incorporates the rhythms of traditional music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and "that 'other' ancestral homeland, Africa", representing the mostly one-way flow from Puerto Rico to the New York-based diaspora.[6] "His life and music commute back and forth between his home turf in the Bronx and his ancestral Puerto Rico, with more than casual stop-offs in other musical zones of the Caribbean."[6] Colón "makes the relation between diaspora and Caribbean homeland the central theme of his work," particularly in his 1971 Christmas album, Asalto navideño.[6] The lyrics and music of the songs on this album "enact the diaspora addressing the island culture in a complex, loving but at the same time mildly challenging way."[6][7]
He went on to have many successful collaborations with salsa musicians and singers such as Ismael Miranda, Celia Cruz and Soledad Bravo, and singer-songwriter Rubén Blades.[8] On his website, Colón claims to hold the "all time record for sales in the Salsa genre, [having] created 40 productions that have sold more than thirty million records worldwide."[9]
One significant overarching theme in Colón's music, which draws from many cultures and several different styles, is an exploration of the competing associations that Puerto Ricans have with their home and with the United States. Colón uses his songs to depict and investigate the problems of living in the U.S. as a Puerto Rican,[10] and also to imply the cultural contributions that Puerto Ricans have to offer.[6]


Willie Colon - MC2 (Theme Realidades)

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

The great classic "Them Changes" penned by Mr. Buddy Miles and recorded with Jimi Hendrix and The Band of Gypsies, later to be recorded by Mr. Miles for his own album.

This is a great soulful slightly funky version done by Miss Gloria Walker from 1972 of the Federal label.

Gloria Walker - Them Changes

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up A & B

Great Louisiana soul quakin' booty shakin' dance number by Clifton White & His Royal Knights from 1968 on the Anla label. Info was scarce on Mr. White & his Royal Knights but this is a great little number that brings you straight back to another time in a smokey little dive bar with a few coctails and some foxy momma's dancing it up.... Dig it.

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up - A

Clifton White & His Royal Knights - The Warm Up - B

Gate Wesley - (Zap! Pow!) Do The Batman - Do The Thing

Last week i posted The Sensation Guitars Of Dan & Dale 45 and told of my Batman fandom. I also threatened to post more "Batman" related items that i have. Well, not that anyone asked but here is another funky little B-man record, inspired by the hit TV show from 1966. I can't tell you who Gate Wesley is as info seems pretty scarce on Mr. Wesley but this 45 features Billy LaMont on vocals, or so the 45 states...

Zap! Pow!

Gate Wesley - (Zap! Pow!) Do The Batman

Gate Wesley - Do The Thing