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:g: After watching the documentaries, Muscle Shoals and 20 Feet from stardom. I got to thinking "if you had your chance to be in a music studio when putting  one record together, what would the record be. Mine would be. If I could only be sure - Nolan Porter-ABC RECORDS 1972.with the Guitar Riffs and Piano work ;;; That must have been some session. Saw him do it at Richard Searling gig at Summer in the park at The Dunkenhalgh hotel. Accrington.

Hairs on the back of your neck tune. Rod Clegg :yes:

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Eddie Parker - I'm Gone - without a shadow of a doubt!

Hi Joan, hope your keeping well, I'm gone- Eddie Parker one word brilllllllllllllllliant. Even like it by Billy Sha-Rae version. Rod

Would love to be in on one of those big beaty New York type productions.... The orchestration does me in on those tunes. But really would love to have heard all the artists I either collect or dance too. One not enough rodders so gonna plump for 3!

Freddie Houston - if I had known

Jimmy Helms- you're mine you

Just Clay - haven't got what it takes

Then there's all the fabulous productions from Chicago I love etc etc .... Could go on all day

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  :thumbsup: Great taste of Music Tiggerwoods, Chicago now your talking, all those great Brunswick tracks from Eugene Record and Co. One record comes to mind. Coldest day of my life- Chi-Lites. Feel really emotional when I hear this. Rod :thumbup:

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Would love to have seen Gladys belting out How Can You Say That Aint Love

Id liked to have seen Bobby Garret and "I cant get away". Especially the saxophonist doing his thing. File Under A for Awesome.

Clydie Kings Imperial sessions for me or a day in the "snakepit" runs a close second choice, and there's always Joe Matthews Ain't nothing you can do on KoolKat to shake the wax from your ears.

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As the cheeky girls - we are the cheeky girls........probably doesn't qualify

 

I'd choose any Norman Whitfield production by the Temps

As others have said, especially in the snake pit, watching snd listening to David Ruffin and the boys .

The Casanova Two's "We Got To Keep On" just the witness the intensity of one of the greatest male duets ever put to plastic....

 

Ian D :D

The Casanova Two's "We Got To Keep On" just the witness the intensity of one of the greatest male duets ever put to plastic....

 

Ian D :D

 

Ian did you ever see the performance of this on one of the Soultrip USA videos?  I hope I've got the right record. Freddie Hughes sang it.  He was just awesome.

Ian did you ever see the performance of this on one of the Soultrip USA videos?  I hope I've got the right record. Freddie Hughes sang it.  He was just awesome.

 

No never seen that Pete. I just love the passion of Freddie Hughes' vocals. He's turned into one of my favourite vocalists over the last 40 years.......

 

Ian D :D

No never seen that Pete. I just love the passion of Freddie Hughes' vocals. He's turned into one of my favourite vocalists over the last 40 years.......

 

Ian D :D

 

It's amazing mate, he is just totally brilliant, one of the best performances ever - and this is in the 90's or 2000's as well.

The Casanova Two's "We Got To Keep On" just the witness the intensity of one of the greatest male duets ever put to plastic....

 

Ian D :D

Oh yes, Freddie Hughes is one  half, don,t know who the other one is, but yes Ian, the two incredibly soulful diverse vocals, plus the intensity, powerful soulful stuff indeed

 

Kev

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Marliyn Monroe doing happy boithday mr president :wub:

Uptight - Jackie Wilson and Count Basie orchestra in one room WOW :hatsoff2:

 

Willians and Watson - Too late , bet that was a fun session :)

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marvin & tammi-aint no mountain high enough ,the intro with the drumsticks hitting off the side of the drums unique .

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jackie wilson -to be loved

4 tops -something about you ,the funks were on fire with this track

marvin & tammi-aint no mountain high enough ,the intro with the drumsticks hitting off the side of the drums unique .

Two great Motown tracks there, and I think -to be loved/ Jackie Wilson was written by Berry Gordy. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY was named TO BE LOVED. Rod

Thomas  Edison - Mary had a little lamb 

In Chicago in 1953, to watch The Flamingos recording "Golden Teardrops" with lefty Bates and his band, and all those great Chicago session players.  I WAS in Chicago for Christmas -New Years, and most of the summer.  But I was a "White" kid of only 8 years old.  So, naturally, I wasn't invited.  I think the session occurred in spring, before I arrived, in any case.  I DID get to meet some of the Blues and R&B singers at my uncle's grocery store on The South Side.  But i never met The Flamingos.

 

I might also have wanted to be in the studio in New York in 1955, when Okeh Recorded planned to record "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins singing several Blues cuts for an upcoming LP, and he (and his entire band) came in roaring drunk, and they ended up with a novelty album and a giant national hit single that vaulted his career to fame.

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Oh yes, Freddie Hughes is one  half, don,t know who the other one is, but yes Ian, the two incredibly soulful diverse vocals, plus the intensity, powerful soulful stuff indeed

 

Kev

 

Wylie Trass is the second voice. Great record.

 

Regards,

 

Dave

To be in Stax Studios May 12th 1965 whilst in the company of Wilson Pickett, Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love, Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Steve Cropper, Joe Hall, Duck Dunn and Al Jackson putting together  Pickett's immortal In The Midnight Hour

Where ever Lacindy recorded the Man oh man session!

Aghmmmm Walter cough cough! Eh that sounded ok that. Is there any chance I could maybe take a cpl of copies of that when its pressed. Its a catchy wee tune that.

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.....great vocal and instrumentation but it is the backing singers that make it stand out, they appear to get more excited as the record begins to fade.....'whooo'.........what a record.......I bet that studio was buzzin'!

I'm with Joan on this one...no conest....Eddie Parker- I'm Gone

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I'd like to have been the guy stood in front of the band ready to count in Bari Track. - 'One Two Three Four.....'

To be in Stax Studios May 12th 1965 whilst in the company of Wilson Pickett, Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love, Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Steve Cropper, Joe Hall, Duck Dunn and Al Jackson putting together  Pickett's immortal In The Midnight Hour

Good call Dave - same studios for me.  But the day in '62 when Johnny Jenkins' young driver stepped up to the mic and launched into 'These Arms Of Mine' .  No room for Cropper on guitar - he played the triplets on piano.  The legend that is Otis and quite possibly Southern Soul was born - and the rest is history!

Good call Dave - same studios for me.  But the day in '62 when Johnny Jenkins' young driver stepped up to the mic and launched into 'These Arms Of Mine' .  No room for Cropper on guitar - he played the triplets on piano.  The legend that is Otis and quite possibly Southern Soul was born - and the rest is history!

 

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marvin & tammi-aint no mountain high enough ,the intro with the drumsticks hitting off the side of the drums unique .

 Years ago I read that they were never in the studio together for  duets including ANMHE because Anna Gordy forbade it. Anyone know if that is true?

I'm tempted to say I would put an early Beatles session above anything else. :ohmy:

 

But soulwise I'm straight down to Memphis to be there when Otis records "I've Been Loving You" or "Try a Little Tenderness".

 

Thinking about it what about being there when Phil Spector recorded River Deep Mountain High or one of his all-time classics. Probably hours of interminable boredom, but out at the end pops a masterpiece. 

I would have loved to have been in the studio when Bobby Bland recorded the 'Two Steps From The Blues' album. Oooh that voice, those horns, I've over all a quiver !

Troy Dodds.... Try my love. The lyrics and vocals on this beauty can make a grown man cry

:g: After watching the documentaries, Muscle Shoals and 20 Feet from stardom. I got to thinking "if you had your chance to be in a music studio when putting  one record together, what would the record be. Mine would be. If I could only be sure - Nolan Porter-ABC RECORDS 1972.with the Guitar Riffs and Piano work ;;; That must have been some session. Saw him do it at Richard Searling gig at Summer in the park at The Dunkenhalgh hotel. Accrington.

Hairs on the back of your neck tune. Rod Clegg :yes:

An ironic choice Rod,  because there is a bit of contention as to who played guitar - Johnny 'guitar' Watson or Lowell George?   your attendance would of been able to confirm it one way or the other :o)  it is also ironic in that a lot of the session men were an assortment of old hippies and ex Mothers Of invention - not your normal Soul 'heroes', but of course Nolan was not your regular Soul man or even saw himself as one! 

I reckon the Tomangoes would take some beating for all out intensity in the confines of a small studio. Witnessing Steve Karmen sing Breakaway would have been cool as well.

I reckon the Tomangoes would take some beating for all out intensity in the confines of a small studio. Witnessing Steve Karmen sing Breakaway would have been cool as well.

 

Steve Karmen singing "Breakaway"? I presume you meant Jimmy Radcliffe....?  :lol:

 

Ian D  :D

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