Original Blues sound of Charles Brown (repost)

Again, and by request this superb and rare album of ancient Rhythm 'n' blues.

The Original blues sound of
Charles Brown & Amos Milburn

Go to the previous post for infos and new link.

I get a feeling

With Bonnie.

...or may I say with Brenda !?

BONNIE & CLYDE
( I Get A Feeling / I Want A Boyfriend (Girlfriend) – 1963
In-Sound 405 /Stateside FSS 606)

No large info on this cool 45's on Stateside, except that I buyed it some 10 years ago at a friend, because of its great soul vocals. More, the title "I get a feeling" and its sentence "I get a feeling when we are dancing" is an hymne to the soul spirit.

The female vocal arriving in a second time is incredible... and I stayed so long asking myself whose it was.
Yeaaah thanks to Internet and Soulfulkindamusic, I have now the answer and what an answer it is.

This single issued on the Stateside label of EMI in 1963 was from the original US "In sound" label apparently and the identity of his singers is given (in some way) by the credits : Robert D. Jackson.

Bonnie & Clyde are in fact : Brenda Holloway & Robert Jackson (Brother Of Gloria Jones). So it's one of the singles Brenda released before 1964... before signing to Motown. cqfd

Pretty rare you said ? yes it is. And it's so good.

Now enjoy !! :

I get a feeling (B side)



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The buzz of Rocky !

ROCKY ROBERTS and the AIREDALES

4 tracks from Rocky Roberts and the Airedales (LP)
(DURIUM MS A 77155 , 1966 ITA)

(Got a thing going single picture cover)
Listen to Got a thing going

4 tracks from Rocky Roberts and the Airedales : A sabato sera (LP) (DURIUM MS A 77163, 1967 ITA)

(Stasera mi butto single picture cover)

Strange kind of person, this Rocky. First time I've heard of him was on the French Disco revue 60's mag (the specimen).
I told myself : "Waouh ! it looks and sounds cool'". But I soon realised it was hard to get an ear on his stuff. Rocky Roberts and his airedales is the kind of band who made a big part of its career in Italia, and that's the reason why we saw him often in Paris at that time.
He made a lot of records, all collectors now, but not all the stuff are must have..
I had the chance to put my hands on some of them, (Thanks Claude) so I decided to share the best of this good northern soul stuff here. Enjoy right now !

This US R&B band arrived in Italia following the incredible success of their T-Bird single (a cover) which became the jingle of the Bandiera gialla radio broadcast. Rocky Roberts became a casual of this and he soon assumed good shows on TV and on records proposing a famous italian Rn'blues style with "Stasera mi butto" and "Sono tremendo".
The other famous men of the Airedales were Doug Fowkles (the founder), and Wess Johnson, the bassist, who remplaced Rocky on vocals first, presenting songs in italian in a second period.
(from italian Musicamemoria site.)

The superb complete discographic page about Rocky Roberts & The Airedales (1st release by Doug Fowlkes & the Airedales on VIS Radio Records (ITA) in 1960/1st release by Doug Fowlkes & the Airedales with "Rocker" Roberts on Barclay Records in 1962.), is on : Wang dang dula.

Listen to Can't ask no more :


Listen to Buzz buzz buzz :


Listen to Just because of you :


Download the full patch (best 8 tracks from the two albums) :
Come see about me 2:44
Tell me 2:53
Too much 1:41
Buzz buzz buzz 2:17
Stasera mi butto 2:05
Got a thing going 2:17
Just because of you 1:55
Can't ask no more 2:16

Bonus :

A page on the death of Rocky Roberts (in italian)
who has passed away in 2005.

Disco revue (France Octobre 1964)

One more cool picture. (Peanut butter french ep. Barclay 70410, 1961)

Here we go again with...

JAY and The TECHNIQUES
Here we go again
B side of Keep the ball rollin' (Philips 320268 BF)
Belgium 1967.

This copy is the Belgian pressing, showing just a piece of vinyl placed in a thin folded paper. No back cover.
The A side is an entertaining soul variety track, but with no real impact, while the B side is a real good northern soul winner, ok for the dancing. Good rhythm, good voice, even if at the limit; cool chorus, and a groovy organ. Sometime as a french guy I'm telling myself Laurent Bauer from the late Bogeymen should have cover this one.

Some biographical lines bout Jay (always touring) on the Rick Levy site.

Here we go again :


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Soul soul feeling !

HARRY BATCHELOR and the Mighty crowns
Soul soul feeling
(B side of Just a few more minutes, Roulette 45VR 195053 disques Vogue)

I had time for thoughts this week-end.
And after my last note, I told myself that I could share my collection in a better and easier way than absolutely complete albums each time in doing here what I have already done on le Podcast d'hector. Put some good (and rare) singles on Action time.
More, Mephisto's rock gems gave me the energy, so... beginning with my favorite soul/funk/rn'blues 45's....

No info on this very good funky piece, with fuzz and loud organ, just that Harry Batchelor apparently have played with one of the first Jimi Hendrix/ Billy Cox band "King casuals" in 1962, and that it's pretty much collectable. Have a look on Les groupes de Jimi site
where I found this photo. (Harry Batchelor is the singer).


One time again, the B side is the better.

Soul soul feeling :


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Time to make a point

Well, it's amazing how great this community is.
I remember it's been about one year now that I have discovered it, thanks to a chronicle in the french Liberation newspaper.
I was at that time searching for an album of the Things (paisley band), and I felt onto Twilightzone. What a shok !

Since then I have joined this and I do as much as I can, because I'm also into comics and multimedia things at my job., But it never stops to surprise me each day. My goal is not, like someones do, to put all my discotheque on the blog, it has no sense for me, but sometimes, I think of one thing that can be interesting to share. Sometime I have a little more time and I ask myself, is that lp could interest somebody ?
In fact I have thousands of vinyls (in big part) that sleeps in cases, and that could be uploaded here. But that's no way. I let time to time and it will happen what it will happen ... someday.

Just to say : the big part of the collection is made of 60's international garage, on lps, many comps, some soul, many international garage or rn'blues revival many french 80's lps or 45s too, some 70's international one 45s ... so .. what to choose first ? I look for the other blogs to see if I can help...

I am a Soul lover, and even If I buy, like the larger part of the users of this community ,a lot of records (or may I say ; I had buyed a lot since 25 years), I cannot afford myself put again and again more records on the living room or in the celling.
So do I download regularly some stuff here and there, but always with reason, and always leaving a comment.

The people who are under each blog are often (if always) great and it's a pleasure for me each time to read the notes and to enjoy the music. Some are bigger and nicer than others, but everytime I discover something, and that's the real gaz !!

Thank you everybody !

You can't stand alone, (Pickett), by the Out Four.