Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe

[Soul-slider]

Just got an L.P, Terry Callier 'Turn You To Love' Elektra 1979. Cracking version of 'Ordinary Joe' obviously re-done version??? What year was the release on Cadet???

I know someone on here can help...

[Steve G]

Without checking it was about 1969/70 methinks

[Tabs]

1969 from my fading memory

Without checking it was about 1969/70 methinks

[Soul-slider]

Thanks for that, he obviously loved the tune enough to re-cut it for this 1979 album.

[Prophonics 2029]

I have an LP version just think its the longer single version but in stereo and not that other version but not the unissued version.

If that makes sense.

[Guest Gogs]

Always thought the best version was on the "occasional rain" lp or am i wrong again?

[Dave Pinch]

i thought it was 1972. even though terry wrote it i think jerry butler recorded it first. its on the 70s

label design anyway. its three releases after the dells its all up to you. deffo 1972

dave

Edited October 15, 2008 by dave pinch

[Jerry Hipkiss]

Always thought the best version was on the "occasional rain" lp or am i wrong again?

Not to me you're not - maybe it's because it's the first version I knew, maybe it's because of the girl who introduced me to it in the first place... ...but yes. I think it's the superior one.

[Garethx]

The Cadet single and the Occasional Rain album are from 1972. The first released version is by Jerry Butler on the You & Me album from 1969. The Terry Callier 45 is virtually identical to the album version (the only difference is the slightly truncated piano solo on the 45, a difference of a few seconds). Callier later re-cut it in quite different style on the Elektra lp Turn You To Love in 1979.

A Terry Callier version from September 1969 (around exactly the time of the Jerry Butler album's appearance) was released on the album First Light on Premonition Records in 1998. It's a radically different version, over six minutes long in a slower, more acoustic vein with a great electric piano mid-section. I don't have the facility to add sound files but someone else might be able to. It's well worth hearing.

I've always wondered where the Cadet single was first played on the UK soul scene: as a new release or as a later 'revival' in the wake of the club success of the Elektra cut?

[Peter99]

Always thought the best version was on the "occasional rain" lp or am i wrong again?

Is that a different album to the Elektra Turn you to Love - which has Occasional Rain on it?

Oops - I've now read the above post.

Edited October 15, 2008 by Peter99