Boz Scaggs

Just surfin, like ya do, youtube is me fave. Typing in bits n pieces and jumping from one sound to another, what a fantastic medium the tinternet is!

Well today I have mostly been listening to the tracks I remember the older boys n girls dancing to at my local youth club and a track that got under my skin back then was Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs - What Can I Say (1976) , for some reason it reminds me a little of Candi Staton's "Young hearts run free"?

Well Boz Scaggs entered into our Northernsoul culture with a modern soul track I think it was Boz Scaggs - JoJo? I may now e-bay the album, I wonder if it's worth a listen.

I think this is the real cross over! Mega tracks even if I am mistaken with the Jo Jo one? Can any one help?

Both tracks are on the tube...... wadda ya think?

Boz Scaggs

Just surfin, like ya do, youtube is me fave. Typing in bits n pieces and jumping from one sound to another, what a fantastic medium the tinternet is!

Well today I have mostly been listening to the tracks I remember the older boys n girls dancing to at my local youth club and a track that got under my skin back then was Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs - What Can I Say (1976) , for some reason it reminds me a little of Candi Staton's "Young hearts run free"?

Well Boz Scaggs entered into our Northernsoul culture with a modern soul track I think it was Boz Scaggs - JoJo? I may now e-bay the album, I wonder if it's worth a listen.

I think this is the real cross over! Mega tracks even if I am mistaken with the Jo Jo one? Can any one help?

Both tracks are on the tube...... wadda ya think?

Boz Scaggs is a highly creditable singer : the problem with " WCIS " , is that it is remembered as a chart record , and could be a non - starter as a modern / crossover side ......

Check out his excellent version of Joe Simon's " Drowning In The Sea Of Love " ........

Malc Burton

Malc, I'm 99.99999999999999999999% sure one of his tracks was played on the modurn scene?

In fact i'd bet my left nut on it

Joe Simon Drowning In The Sea Of Love mega record Malk but the chap needs to swallow what ever he has stuck in his throat, its not my left nut I hope!

Malc, I'm 99.99999999999999999999% sure one of his tracks was played on the modurn scene?

In fact i'd bet my left nut on it

It was , and it was debated here on SS quite a while back , but for the life of me , I cannot recall what the title was ........

Malc Burton

His original version of the Patti Labelle mini hit "You Make It So Hard To Say No".

Nice Fingersnapper!

Sean

Edited September 11, 200816 yr by Sean Hampsey

His version of the Patti Labelle mini hit "You Make It So Hard To Say No".

Sean

Stop it with the double entendres , Mr H - it is not big , and it is not clever ...........

Malc Burton

Ken, I think your Avatar has slipped mate? You look kinda upside down and out of focus? Why not use your prison photo like I have?

"You Make It So Hard To Say No", cheers for that Sean, any one got a clip?

Hi, I have always liked Boz Scaggs especially his Silk Degree set which I think was his first, some absolutely top sounds on that including if I remember righty 'Lowdown', didn't he have something to do with Carly Simon's 'We're all alone' again another terrific record, not sure about a track being played on the modden scene but it wouldn't surprise me.

Regards

Alan

Hi, I have always liked Boz Scaggs especially his Silk Degree set which I think was his first, some absolutely top sounds on that including if I remember righty 'Lowdown', didn't he have something to do with Carly Simon's 'We're all alone' again another terrific record, not sure about a track being played on the modden scene but it wouldn't surprise me.

Regards

Alan

Bit of a blue eyed souler our 'Boz'. I already had a couple of singles by him and bought "Jo Jo" blind when it was new and was surprised to find it somewhat in the jazz/funk style. "Lowdown" was a great disco-soul-type-thing C.1976 I think... I believe "What Can I Say" appealed directly to UK Soul fans in the same way that Ace's "How Long" did. Valid pop-soul with a memorable hook. I like it.

always loved it also jeese green come with me ,from a year later brilliant

kev

Boz Scaggs' soul credentials are pretty well established. His self-titled album on Atlantic was cut at Fame at the height of the studios powers and contains some of the high-water marks of blue-eyed Southern Soul in I'm Easy and I'll Be Long Gone.

The later records on Columbia are more obviously soft rock with a soulful slant in the mould of Hall & Oates etc. but contain a lot of perfectly-listenable tracks.

Edited September 11, 200816 yr by garethx

I really like his Atlantic album, recorded at Muscle Shoals, and he did a decent version of 'Hercules' in the early 70s, but after that...

What a coincidence. I was viewing Boz Scaggs clips on YouTube for probably an hour yesterday while killing time in the record store I work in. I really like him, especially the "Silk Degrees" and "Slow Dancer" albums, but his first (well, actually second) album on Atlantic which has been mentioned here is also great (check out George Freeman's deep soul version of "I'll Be Gone" on EPIC! Top stuff! ). The stuff Boz recorded and only released in Sweden back in the 60s (prior to joining Steve Miller Band) is decent as well.

I sometimes play "What Can I Say", "Lowdown", "Jojo" and "Hollywood" while out DJing. Superb music. And insanely well played and produced.

Here's one of my favourite tracks from "Silk Degrees": "Lido Shuffle" (again, a gigantic chart hit) delivered in a full-on high-energy live version:

(WARNING! NOT A SOUL TUNE! DON'T RIP ME APART...)

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Edited September 12, 200816 yr by Sebastian

Come on peeps - Boz Scaggs or Mickey Moonshine ?

I know where my vote goes!!

Come on peeps - Boz Scaggs or Mickey Moonshine ?

I know where my vote goes!!

How Lowdown can you go Andy!

There's one of his that I particularly like, think it's 'We Were Always Sweethearts' - someone played it on Shaun Robbin's radio show a while back if that helps narrow it down... (sorry that's a bit vague, not quite awake this morning )

Ahem... All interesting stuff, but the track played on the Modern Scene (which ImberBoy was enquiring about) was "You Make It So Hard To Say No"....

...as I said earlier!

Ry You No Rissen!

Sean, cant find a clip of "You Make It So Hard To Say No" any where?

I have found Boz Scaggs - "Miss Sun" its fookin mega!

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Sean, cant find a clip of "You Make It So Hard To Say No" any where?

pm'd you an mp3

Boz made many albums with great tracks on, if you like the 'what's going on' sound check 'here to stay' on 'boz scaggs and band' on CBS.

also recommend self-titled and my time on Atlantic (both recorded at muscle shoals), silk degrees, down two then left, slow dancer, moments, my time , middle man. i've heard and played Boz several times in modern rooms to a good reaction.

You can't beat a bit-a-Boz!

Still have this album & play it occasionally....I have another which I've never played, bit slack, may have to dig it out & give it a listen.

KTF

Baz

Hi, I have always liked Boz Scaggs especially his Silk Degree set which I think was his first, some absolutely top sounds on that including if I remember righty 'Lowdown', didn't he have something to do with Carly Simon's 'We're all alone' again another terrific record, not sure about a track being played on the modden scene but it wouldn't surprise me.

Regards

Alan

The Boz Scagg's dancer for Northern and Modern dance floors is this one - ITS OVER - off the Silk Degrees LP ... has everything ... just brilliant ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WAV-UnqEHA

Just found this thread in case anyone had mentioned this Boz Scaggs similarity before. Surely he's nicked Billy Prophet to come up with Dinah Flo? Or is it just me?

 

 

I've forgotten how good this is

 

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Correct link now added to post above

 

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On 11/09/2008 at 18:54, Alan Pollard said:

Hi, I have always liked Boz Scaggs especially his Silk Degree set which I think was his first, some absolutely top sounds on that including if I remember righty 'Lowdown', didn't he have something to do with Carly Simon's 'We're all alone' again another terrific record, not sure about a track being played on the modden scene but it wouldn't surprise me.

Regards

Alan

Hi Alan, 'Silk Degrees' was something like his fifth album. I recall buying  'Slow Dancer' an album from 1974. A fine piece of blue-eyed soul produced by Johnny Bristol and arranged by H B Barnum. Here is a lovely Bristol penned ballad from'Slow Dancer'.

 

Driving home one night from a Soul night at Mansfield, put the radio on. Johnnie Walker radio 2, decent music and chat. Although it wasn’t all soul music it was listenable, he was having guests in like Ady Croasdall and other soul linked figures.

On comes a track that had me interested. It was by Boz Skaggs and “King of El Paso”, and really appealed to me. He followed this up with a favourite Ray Charles “Unchain my heart”. Brilliant, they just flowed together.

it was from an album called ‘Dig’ from 2001. Check it out.

My mate Eddie an African Americsncgasman (anesthetist) back in my days at Spire was nuts about Boz Scaggs and Peabo who he knew from his days in NYC. More for the general soul scene, I must now touch base with that man. C