Let me take you down

[manho]

" ... the path for King, Weil and Greenwich was arguably paved by Rose Marie McCoy. One of the most influential songwriters of the 50s and 60s, she wrote hits for Elvis Presley and Ike and Tina Turner and, as a black female songwriter from the American south, had to fight harder than anyone to get her songs heard."

elvis, trying to get to you (written by rose marie mccoy & charles singleton), 1956:
www.sendspace.com/file/h2tq7x

nappy brown, don't be angry (written by rose marie mccoy & fred mendelsohn), 1955:
www.sendspace.com/file/mrfuda

mccoy also wrote the first big hit for ike & tina turner, i think it's gonna work out fine: one of the greatest r&b records ever recorded. i've posted it here in the past so i won't bother this time. anyone who doesn't know it can probably find it on youtube.

[cripes]

Don't Be Angry
Good find.

[manho]

"Sippie Wallace, one of the original "red hot mamas" of the '20s and '30s vaudeville circuit, cut her first record ("Up the Country") in 1923; rediscovered in 1965 and performing again, she is joined here by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band":
www.sendspace.com/file/7ody06

[manho]

tim buckley, dolphins (written by fred neil), live in london, 1968:
www.sendspace.com/file/27zxs1

[manho]

this is about as close as opera gets to popular song. from puccini's madame butterfly, un bel di (one fine day).

maria callas, un bel di:
www.sendspace.com/file/s5wucg

[digit]

Mickey and Sylvia's 57 hit "Love is strange" co-written by Bo Diddley:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT002Q8_rc4

Buddy Holly obviously folked it for "Words of Love"

[Cat Stevens]

Dag just emailed this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo9R5kDZWY

[digit]

kripes.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=50&post=6838

[Cat Stevens]

Ooops, sorry digit - no idea how I've missed your post... and it's not even one month old! Even worse, I've posted just below you there. I usually read all your stuff, in fact I usually read everyone's posts here, but anyway, thanks again. Great little tune, innit? Hey, Bob's playing in Ireland in july...

[digit]

yea and paulie in june...bob wants me to lug it all the way down to limerick, cant see it at this stage unless i get a legally binding promise that he'll play isis or somethin...

[manho]

"cant see it at this stage unless i get a legally binding promise that he'll play isis or somethin..."

be funny if you didn't go and he played eileen aroon.

[manho]

the real pick of the week for June 14, 1952 (strange it's not on YouTube, it was a massive hit in england)

johnnie ray, walking my baby back home:
www.sendspace.com/file/6f25pl

[david]

I still like Nat King Cole's version more, but Johnnie does quite a good job with it.

[manho]

nat's a bit too smooth for me. johnnie has the rough edges of modernity.

[manho]

couple of stones things...

howlin' wolf, the red rooster, 1961:
www.sendspace.com/file/se9xm8
chess records. willie dixon - who wrote the song - on bass.


solomon burke, cry to me, 1961:
www.sendspace.com/file/x53rj9
atlantic records. written and produced by the great bert berns.

[cripes]

Never heard Burke's 'Cry To Me' before. Has more of an 'Under the Boardwalk'/'Stand By Me' thing going on than the Stones' version.

[manho]

"Has more of an 'Under the Boardwalk'/'Stand By Me' thing going on than the Stones' version"

that was the atlantic house sound at that time. bit latino.

[manho]

check out ths clyde mcphatter & the drifters track from 1954. it's almost a calypso.
www.sendspace.com/file/fhd7en

[digit]

good stuff there. i heard burke's version before but i never knew berns wrote it. the more i hear about the guy the more impressive he becomes. this is where i heard it first, on jools:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUmE_Ejcbk

[manho]

lawdy miss clawdy was processed from this. not hard to see why the original wasn't a hit...

champion jack dupree, junker's blues, 1941:
www.sendspace.com/file/nyo6zf