tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217250052024-03-19T04:05:11.573+00:00Feel Itmostly vinyl, mostly a private pleasure - until now.Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.comBlogger703125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-75644997065174986242022-03-13T21:33:00.000+00:002022-03-13T21:33:25.061+00:00How old?An
early kick off and a late winning goal for my team (which may not be
a team at all for much longer) resulted in an impromptu visit to a
second pub of the day for an extra pint by way of celebration this
afternoon. This particular pub should be more accurately described as
a micro pub and has been very successful in these here parts in the
last few years. Hats off to the landlady. The modus Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-75576000970937827862021-12-24T20:13:00.001+00:002021-12-24T20:13:11.399+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 24Door 24 already, another Advent-ure over! It has really flown by this year. A tradition that has developed here is to play out with a track from the classic Ronettes album A Christmas Gift For You. All that is left for me to do is to raise a glass and wish you all a very Merry (and safe) Christmas.Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-28191767283495629962021-12-23T20:59:00.001+00:002022-03-13T21:35:12.192+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 23Yesterday
I featured Timmy Willis' last outing on wax, any today, by
coincidence, it would appear that this single was Maurice Williams'
last record.
Maurice
Williams had started his recording career in 1957 as part of the
group The Gladiolas (renamed from The Royal Charms as other groups
were also using that name) they scored a sizeable R&B hit record
straight away with Little Darlin' (Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-17123422922025614832021-12-22T23:40:00.001+00:002021-12-22T23:40:47.024+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 22I
have been feeling a bit nostalgic for the 70s this last few days,
probably fuelled by watching episodes of Fawlty Towers and The
Sweeney (it's a Christmas thing with me).
The
early 70s was when music first became an essential part of my world, and the wah wah funk of
this track places it unmistakably from that era.
Very
little is known of Timmy Willis, or Henry Sapp to give him is real
name. Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-32873104983736450202021-12-21T19:54:00.000+00:002021-12-21T19:54:04.545+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 21I'm
a sucker for a moody and melancholy tune. Here is one I initially heard on one
of the always excellent Dogpatch podcasts. Each podcast has a rough
theme and features music (always obscure) from the record collections
of Dante Carfagna and Jon Kirby interspersed with wonderful dosings of
their “color commentary” (to quote their About line). Always
brilliant, and always educational if you Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-47962042304954339492021-12-20T20:16:00.002+00:002021-12-20T20:16:35.528+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 20For
some reason I have never really given Wilson Pickett that much
attention. I know his big hits, but perhaps because those are so familiar I had never really
thought to explore his catalog any further. A few weeks ago I picked
up a few of his singles to start to put that right.
Earlier
in this series I featured “The New Bloods” covering one of the
Wicked one's songs, so here he is covering Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-76087103477629627612021-12-19T21:26:00.000+00:002021-12-19T21:26:13.504+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 19There
were so many great soul vocal groups around in the 60s and into the
70s it's no surprise that some remained a little under the radar.
(The)
Natural Four hailed from Oakland, California and formed around 1967.
Their first (or possibly second) 45 was released on the wonderfully named Boola-Boola
label in 1969. It is a seriously rare and expensive record nowadays.
It is also seriously Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-52816380122348606422021-12-18T20:22:00.000+00:002021-12-18T20:22:35.607+00:00The Feel it Advent-ure 2021: Door 18I
am completely hooked on Mack Stevens YouTube channel (I Buy Old Records) this past few months. I can happily spend hours watching him
riffle through the little ones with the big holes at thrifts and
antique malls in Texas, Oklahoma, and all States south. The volume of
stuff (granted a lot of it is 70s Country and Pop chuff) he seems to be able to dig through in these places is impressive, and Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-81480247821862674262021-12-17T23:18:00.002+00:002021-12-17T23:18:54.786+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 17Here's a nice swingin'
little number for another late night here.
Paul Bryant, Curtis Amy
– Goin' Down, Git Me A Woman 1960Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-77168545400604013152021-12-16T23:59:00.000+00:002021-12-16T23:59:01.756+00:00The Feel it Advent-ure 2021: Door 16 Aaahh! I almost forgot!Here's another top quality B side. You can find it on the other side of Short Stopping. I wonder how many people have this record and have never played the other side?Veda Brown - I Can See Every Woman's Man But Mine 1973 Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-56583266088213192472021-12-15T21:14:00.000+00:002021-12-15T21:14:49.668+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 15Here's
a piece of very classy early disco. South Shore Commission, scored a
big hit with Free Man in 1975, which registered as Billboard's
#1 disco record of that year. This track featured on their one and
only album and makes an appearance here as the B side to Free Man's
follow up - We're On The Right Track. The
right track turned out to be a siding as the tracks from their album
were Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-63679719484453029672021-12-14T21:54:00.004+00:002021-12-14T21:54:52.086+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 14Eddie
& Ernie are one of my favourite Soul duos and I have featured
some of their singles here in the past.
The
New Bloods are in fact Eddie & Ernie. They recorded this 45's
sides in 1964 and saw them released on two different local Phoenix
labels under two different group names: (as The Sliding Doors) on Body, and as The New Bloods on Madley; the only known releases on those
labels. Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-87163959899623781972021-12-13T20:54:00.000+00:002021-12-13T20:54:33.540+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 13I
can't find any concrete info about First Company. What would you call
it - Psychedelic Soul? Free Soul? It's not easy to pigeon hole. Both
sides of this 45 have a great lo-fi feel. I'm not even sure when it
was released although looking at the handful of other releases on the
label I would guess 1972.
Numero
re-released another single on the label, by The Sweet & Innocent,
not so long ago (Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-43833774174297373392021-12-12T17:41:00.001+00:002021-12-12T17:41:05.696+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 12There
are birthday parties, wedding parties, house parties, and Downing St
parties (or is that “parties”?).
Mitty's
man is going off to the Vietnam war and she has decided to have a
party, a drown your sorrows one. Her big voice and a great “big
city” style production makes this a really dramatic listen.
Mitty Collier - My Party 1966Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-60807358394388538192021-12-11T21:50:00.000+00:002021-12-11T21:50:38.650+00:00The Feel it Advent-ure 2021: Door 11A
car boot find from earlier in the year. This is only the second time
I have found a record on the Amalgamated label. You can read about my previous Amalgamated find, from 11 years ago (almost to the day!), here. So this time I knew for
sure what I was looking at – a reggae single from the golden age, my heart leapt, and I
knew it was probably one that was worth a few bob. It was almost the
lastDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-62801471160991080542021-12-10T21:07:00.000+00:002021-12-10T21:07:15.971+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 10You may lose control of your limbs to this one. Be sure to push the kitchen table and chairs well off to one side :)The Orlons - Not Me 1963Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-56496797424965232342021-12-09T19:17:00.000+00:002021-12-09T19:17:04.347+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 9Here
is a very recent addition to my collection: Al Greene using his real
surname on a very early release of his - his third 45 to be precise.
The label Hot Line Music Journal was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan
where Al Greene lived for most of his teens. It was during this time
that, according to his Wikipedia entry, Al
was kicked out of the family home while in his teens, after his
devoutly Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-64184939118518235762021-12-08T17:13:00.000+00:002021-12-08T17:13:00.836+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 8 A
recent charity shop pull tonight. Not a valuable record but a rare
find inasmuch as I find hardly any reggae in chazzas beyond Ken
Boothe and Judge Dread it seems. The label initially alerted me –
Germain marked it out as reggae, but I wasn't sure how far back it
went. Then I noticed the artist – Audrey Hall. I only knew her from
80s output and beyond, so then I wasn't expecting much as reggae
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-22599763036207938312021-12-07T22:14:00.000+00:002021-12-07T22:14:26.518+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 7Poetry?
Monologue? Spoken word? Call it what you want but it packs a punch.
Wanda Robinson made one album in 1971 – Black Ivory – a
spoken word tour de force from a strong black woman, with some
wonderful backing tracks. Very much of its time. Perception released a follow up a year or two later with other tracks from that
album's sessions. It was released without any involvement from Wanda
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-29880398161288307012021-12-06T22:12:00.001+00:002021-12-06T22:12:17.452+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 6Feeling
very tired tonight. Something mellow is in order.
I picked
up three '50s UK Vogue Jazz EPs at a car boot earlier this year. All
of them very nice and I am a sucker for the simple but striking Vogue
label design, especially around a tri-centre.
The Chico Hamilton Quintet – The Wind 1956
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-12731054869259868492021-12-05T22:54:00.000+00:002021-12-05T22:54:06.961+00:00The Feel it Advent-ure 2021: Door 5It
has taken me an awfully long time to catch up with her but I finally
bought a couple of Miss LaVell 45s this year. Both looked pretty beat
up but play remarkable well.
Here's
one of them. A click at the beginning, but this adds to its charm I
think. The track's arrangement gives it a really exotic feel and I
love the soaring brass, and Miss LaVell's vocals top everything off
wonderfully.
Miss Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-26018962335538351402021-12-04T23:27:00.004+00:002021-12-04T23:27:44.794+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 4Here's
a great bluesy number from Lowell Fulsom (real name actually Fulson I
believe, using both names at different times for
contractual reasons). Yes, it sounds a bit like Tramp (most
well known, at least outside the US, as being recorded by Otis
Redding & Carla Thomas) and that's deliberate because it was
actually the follow up to Lowell's version Tramp which he is
credited as co-writing Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-50423436434134228892021-12-03T22:28:00.000+00:002021-12-03T22:28:30.610+00:00The Feel it Advent-ure 2021: Door 3This
is one of those records I can't play just once. I recorded it onto
mp3 at the third play tonight. Then, when I came to save it I found
it was already on the computer. Furthermore when I came to upload it
I found it was all ready and waiting to be shared. The file date was
25/01/21, which means I must have had it lined up to post back at the
beginning of the year just before I went off air Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-52068095349252490972021-12-02T12:02:00.002+00:002021-12-02T12:02:52.739+00:00The Feel It Adventure 2021: Door 2From
a 1961 obscurity on a California based label to a Noughties one.
As
with Debra Lewis (yesterday) I can offer you zero information about
the Liparis Nervosa Sextet beyond the fact they were LA based, as was
the short-lived AllCity label I believe. However, in trying to
discover some information on the band I did manage to expand my
botany knowledge - Liparis Nervosa is apparently a species ofDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-31994030013427116592021-12-01T23:15:00.000+00:002021-12-01T23:15:14.574+00:00The Feel It Advent-ure 2021: Door 1 Another
random selection of 45s for this year's Adventure. All will probably
be taken from these stacks of vinyl sat next to me that have been
growing steadily through the year. A mixture of 2021 on-line
purchases, charity shop pulls, and car boot serendipity.
Debra
Lewis had two 45s released on the Valiant label in 1961 and as far as
I can tell that was the extent of her recorded output. IDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2