Musical Episode #012: Coming On Strong

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Back with another hour long podcast and in record time but first want to make a few apologies and points of clarification.  I was looking back at the blog and realized there are a few tracks in the most recent podcast that were in my last mix!  It’d been so long I totally forgot what was in there and had some duplicates.  Although they’re amazing and all these songs deserve repeated and attentive listenings it’s a bit silly considering the number of records that could take their place the second time around. 

Not that anyone cares tooooo much but I had repeated hard drive / computer crashes where I lost all my “digitizing” work and only now have begun to rebuild all those tracks (on an external hard drive this time), though I don’t have any of the photographs or biographical information that they had previously.  As such, my mental organization of what’s what has been sort of muddied.  Anyhow, may happen again and they’re great songs so no big loss.

Today’s mix is, not unlike the previous one, lacking a definitive theme other than being a great pile of mostly upbeat 45s.  The opening track by Brenda Lee is a favorite and I had actually been planning on a post with a few other versions of that song but realized I could make this whole blog about “versions” and didn’t want that to happen.  Still, definitely worth checking out the excellent versions by Don Bryant and Tony Ritchie, the former will prob get a post at some point anyhow and the later is a little outside of what I usually cover here but enjoy nevertheless!

The two other 45s I want to single out here are the Brenton Wood track which is absolutely bananas.  The flip is an instrumental that is earth shakingly good.  Funky Funky wah-wah and so great production and a little bit of a curve ball for his discography which I want to say is quite a remarkable collection.  Too frequently he’s pigeon-holed into near-corniness one hit wonder territory with Oogum Boogum Song and Gimme A Little Sign but he’s got a remarkable collection of records with his name on them and it’s worth your time in almost every case.

Finally want to call attention to the Isley Brothers track.  Early in their career, on Atlantic and just an amazing, frantic side.  I’ve only tried dj’ing this twice and both times people did not not how to deal with it.  Waiting for a crowd that knows the line between a circle pit and doing the monkey.

Ok, hope you enjoy the post and just a reminder, all the hour long podcasts going back to when I launched this version of the blog can be accessed on the left side of the page by clicking “hour long podcasts.”

I’ll be taking down the 20 oldest singles and combining them into another Singles Mixer podcast so if you’re like me and prefer to listen to them individually I’d get those now.  As always, the post will remain up for biographical reference etc.

Thanks for listening and hope you enjoy!

-George / Snack Attack.

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