Let me take you down

[manho]

pomus/shuman one more time.

fabian, turn me loose:
www.sendspace.com/file/81xivg

so fabian wasn't just the teeny idol boby took the piss out of. another example of how the "music was dead from 58 to 63" thesis is a pile of ideological shite.

[manho]

is it just me or can anybody else hear a bit of lou reed in there?

[manho]

listening again it's not lou, it's neil young.

[cripes]

You're right. If you didn't see 'Fabian' you'd think the guy was kind of a badass.

Put a couple of 'hey na na's and drop a 'bitch' in there and you'd have a Lou Reed song.

[manho]

as you probaby know, lou was a big fan of "the doc" as he was known to his friends. or was it "the pomus"? not sure about that one. anyway, lou worked with him in the brill in the late 50s, i think, and (i'm sure about this one) recorded a few of his songs recently.

[manho]

just discovered that evie sands recorded the original version of the cult classic "angel of the morning". it was written for her by chip taylor. it didn't chart cos the record label - cameo parkway - crashed just after the record was released.

chip taylor was a new york city guy who just happened to write "wild thing". oh yeah, he's jon voight's brother, too, so i guess that makes him angeline jolie's uncle. he quit music in the 70s to become a professional gambler.

there are 6 million stories in the naked city. this has been one of them.

evie sands, angel of the morning, 1967:
www.sendspace.com/file/f6ih36

[dino]

thanx for the story nick, nice you remembered it


chip is back to music from some ten years now, he did some excellent album with some female singer here and there, folk and country stuff

he lost all the millions of dollars he did thanx to wild thing and angel of the morning with his gambling - gambling can be like heroin

i saw him in concert once, years and years ago, he was decent, an acoustic wild thing is not really what you want to hear but hey, he wrote it

i wish i saw angeline jolie in concert, tho

[manho]

here's a nice interview with chip taylor
www.spectropop.com/ChipTaylor/index.htm

his record label in new york around 64/65 was called "rainy day" and had lots of cool women performers working for it. could it be?

[Cat Stevens]

heeere's Johnny kicking ass in San Quentin prison, 1969:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmrKeyeHKA


does anyone have the original? pre-war? fiddles? thanx.

[manho]

both sorrow by the merseys and wild thing by the troggs were cover versions. the original sorrow was by the mccoys and the original wild thing was by the wild ones. can't find either of them (probably because they were both album tracks). i did come across this one tho and it brought back some nice memories:

senator bobby, wild thing:
www.sendspace.com/file/h84sf4

[manho]

here's the original alfie by cher:
www.sendspace.com/file/4aizrf

you can see why burt didn't like it. starts out and finishes nice but it sort of morphs into a stan freeberg thing in the middle. funny stuff.

[cripes]

I just got through watching American Folk-Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966 and I can't recommend it highly enough. I guess it came out last year. Yo zilla, if you ain't got this one you're not living right.

Lemme see if I can find some of this stuff on YouTube....ok, here are a few:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe--Didn't It Rain
Sonny Boy Williamson--Keep It To Yourself
Big Joe Williams--Baby Please Don't Go
Howlin' Wolf--Smokestack Lightning

Put it in your Nexflix queue or check your local library.

[zilla]

Yeah I can definitely vouch for how damn cool that one is. That and the first 2 volumes of American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 are the shit. Thanks for reminding me to watch them suckers again though.

I just picked up and watched Muddy Waters Classic Concerts DVD. It has that great show from the Newport Jazz Fest 1960 plus 2 other nice shows. I think anything on that Reelin'In The Years label has been pretty damn solid video.

[manho]

caterina caselli, tutto nero, 1966:
www.sendspace.com/file/g3wilu

[manho]

caterina caselli, sono qui con voi:
it.youtube.com/watch?v=y1UcQKAoACc

[manho]

big joe williams, baby please don't go:
www.sendspace.com/file/fdxy0e

this is probably the 1941 version with sonny boy williamson on harmonica.

[manho]

eddie floyd, raise your hand:
www.sendspace.com/file/fv2nch

cat stevens, here comes my baby:
www.sendspace.com/file/3aod4i

bruce, brilliant disguise (acoustic live):
www.sendspace.com/file/ooysmf

[manho]

pino donaggio. you'll probably remember the english version of this song:
www.sendspace.com/file/f7yql6

pino wrote and recorded the original in 1964.

but he didn't stop there. he wrote the music for many brian de palma films. here's the theme from carrie:
www.sendspace.com/file/yxrxzi

and recently he worked with tarantino on death proof:
www.sendspace.com/file/0yjagw


yet another cool italian guy. they're not all pathetic cunts like silvio.

[manho]

here's the original version of "softly, as i leave you" (big hit for both matt monro and the guv'nor in the mid 60s).

mina mazzini, piano:
www.sendspace.com/file/y68n1h

[owen]

just came across this remix of "this old heart of mine". gotta be one of the best sounding records of all time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=90dEdzxEFDQ&feature=related