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A million moons have passed since I've last dropped a podcast and truth be told this one almost didn't happen. Anyone know how to get audacity to work on G4 Powerbook I'll be eternally grateful; I'm just not feeling Garage Band. On top of my gratitude, you'll get more podcasts!
Anyhow. This musical episode is a small collection of 45s that are either covers, re-imaginings, sample material or songs that were directly related to some other jam out there.
Some are fairly obvious and don't need my ramblings. The couple that pop to mind are the Johnny Taylor track 'who's making love' which while not a cover, by his own admission, was a straight lift from a sinatra song 'who takes care of the caretaker...' and the Young-Holt Unlimited track 'Soulful Strut.' To the familiar ear Strut is a straight re-work of the amazing (and frustratingly elusive!) Barbara Acklin track 'Same Girl.' In fact, it's been said Acklin herself was pretty disappointed with the popularity of the Young-Holt track which was released shortly after her's (on the same label, Brunswick) and essentially stole her thunder. The last track worth mentioning is the Clarence Reid jam which basically just steals the hook from the linda lyndell 'what a man' at the end of the track, acting both as an answer song and anticipating the future sampling of the hook.
As usual, all are 45s, listed:
Artist / Track / Label
Hope you enjoy!
The Pointer Sisters / Yes We Can Can / Blue Thumb
Sly and The Family Stone / Can't Turn You Loose / Loadstone
Syl Johnson / Different Strokes / Twilight
Wilson Pickett / Born To Be Wild / Atlantic
Gloria Jones / Tainted Love / Champignon (re-issue)
Jimmy Hughes / Neighbor, Neighbor / Fame
The Jordan Brothers / Gimme Some Lovin / Phillips
Andre Williams / You Are My Sunshine / Fortune
Toots & The Maytals / Louie Louis / Trojan
Freedom Singers / Give Peace A Chance / Bamboo
The Uniques / Mother and Child Reunion / Trojan
Young-Holt Unlimited / Soulful Strut / Brunswick
The Buena Vistas / Here Come Da Judge / Marquee
The Ikettes / I'm Blue (Gong Gong Song) / Atco
Etta James / I Got You Babe / Cadet
Clarence Reid / I'm A Man Of My Word / Alston
Gladys Knight & The Pips / Heard It Through The Grapevine / Soul
Johnnie Taylor / Who's Making Love / Stax
Charles Wright & Watts 103rd St. Band / Express Yourself / Warner Bros
Jimmy McGriff / I Got A Woman Part I / Sue
