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laviolet 25th Aug 2015		78 RPM Huey (Piano) Smith And The Clowns - High Blood Pressure / Don't You Just Know It	Somehow, Huey Smith's two greatest recordings ended up on the same record. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 25th Aug 2015		78 RPM Huey Smith - You Made Me Cry / You're Down With Me	Savoy, a label known for jazz and gospel, released the first records by Huey Smith, Earl King (as Earl Johnson), and Ernie K-Doe (in the group The Blue Diamonds). Success for all had to wait. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 23rd Aug 2015		78 RPM The Cardinals - Shouldn't I Know / Please Don't Leave Me	Here's "Please Don't Leave Me" with the 78 label. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 4th Jun 2015		CD Album Aaron Neville - Gold	Review Most Aaron Neville compilations focus on a specific period of his career, but this one runs the spectrum from his first 45 in 1960 to the most recent recordings at the time of release. Minit tracks written by Allen Toussaint are credited as "Naomi Neville," his pseudonym of the time. Includes the original 45 mixes of "Mojo Hannah" and "Hercules," which are hard to find elsewhere. Highly recommended. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
laviolet 24th Jan 2015		78 RPM Dave Bartholomew - Mr. Fool / Country Boy	Billboard lists "Country Boy" first and it became the better known song, but label shows "Mr. Fool" with the double-A suffix, which I'm told designated the A side on some labels. Feel free to correct if needed. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 22nd Jan 2015		78 RPM Dave Bartholomew - Carnival Day / That's How You Got Killed Before	Bartholomew's first Imperial release. "Carnival Day" features Mardi Gras Indian chants. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 14th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Archibald - Ballin' With Archie	Here's the Archibald discography as I've compiled it from this discography and the notes from this LP. All singles except the reissues of "Stack-a-Lee" were on 78 RPM only. Corrections and additions welcome. Recorded March 1950 Imperial 5068: "Stack-A-Lee," parts 1 & 2 (reissued as Imperial 5358 in 1955 and Imperial 5563 in 1959) Imperial 5082: "Shake Shake Baby" b/w "Ballin' with Archie" Recorded September 1950 Imperial 5101: "My Gal" b/w "She's Scattered Everywhere" Colony C105: "Little Miss Muffett" b/w "Crescent City Bounce" Recorded September 1952 Imperial 5212: "Early Morning Blues" b/w "Great Big Eyes" Outtakes: "Soon As I Go Home" (Imperial LP 94004, 1968) and "House Party Blues" (UK United Artists UAS 29215, 1972) All tracks recorded at J&M Studio, New Orleans. Leon T. Gross ("Archibald") is credited as composer of all tracks except "Great Big Eyes," by Dave Bartholomew.
laviolet 7th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Earl King - Trick Bag: The Best Of Earl King	First US compilation of Earl King's Imperial recordings. In the sleeve notes he recalled the inspiration for "Trick Bag": "Every night, my dad used to go over by his girlfriend’s house and eat supper. But this particular night, his girlfriend called him to the back fence and she gave him a nice plate - wrapped up - over the fence. Then my dad, after he thought about it, goes over and kicks her door down and she had another dude over there. And that’s why there’s the line in there - ‘I saw you kissing Willie [across] the fence...’" Track lineup is same as Pathe Marconi LP except for unreleased tracks added as track seven of each side. Composer "E. Johnson" of "We Are Just Friends" is Earl King.
laviolet 7th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Earl King - Trick Bag	"Come On" seems to be an alternate take; "We Are Just Friends" is registered to Earl King. "The Things That I Used to Do" is a cover of Guitar Slim's hit. To my knowledge, this was the first compilation of Earl King's Imperial recordings.
laviolet 7th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album James "Sugarboy" Crawford - New Orleans Classics	Group name is rendered on original releases as "The Sha-Weez."
laviolet 6th Jan 2015		78 RPM The Sha-Weez - No One To Love Me / Early Sunday Morning	Thanks, fixbutte. All four Sha-Weez titles were also reissued in 1985 with Sugar Boy's Imperial sides on an LP from Pathe Marconi EMI. I own a copy and have posted it in Vinyl Albums. The Imperial LP, the first release for the other songs, came in 1968.
laviolet 1st Jan 2015		78 RPM The Sha-Weez - No One To Love Me / Early Sunday Morning	The Sha-Weez formed at Booker T. Washington High School in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans about 1950. The best known member is James "Sugar Boy" Crawford (1934-2012), famous for "Jock-a-Mo" ("Iko Iko"). Edgar "Big Boy" Myles (1933-1984) was the only other member to make records; his brother Warren was also in the group. They recorded one session for Aladdin in 1952, from which only these two tracks were released at the time. Big Boy Myles sings "No One To Love Me" and Crawford does the weeping monologue at the end. For more, see Marv Goldberg's profile and Sugar Boy's obituary. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 17th Dec 2014		78 RPM Eddie (Guitar Slim) Jones - Feelin' Sad / Certainly All	See label images here and here. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 13th Dec 2014		CD Album Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can ...And Then Some	Review As the modified title indicates, this isn't a straight reissue of Dorsey's 1970 LP. It consists of 11 of the 12 LP tracks, seven other Polydor recordings, and two Smash titles from 1963. Allen Toussaint contributes some of his strongest writing, with "Yes We Can" and "Sneaking Sally Through the Alley" becoming hits for the Pointer Sisters and Robert Palmer, while "Freedom for the Stallion" stands as one of his most beautiful and moving songs. Original album tracks are reordered with bonus tracks interspersed. The omitted LP track "Would You?" isn't a song, but a comic dialogue. Earl King wrote "Hello Good Looking"; the other Smash title "As Quiet As It's Kept" appears for the first time here. "On Your Way Down," "When Can I Come Home," "If She Won't," and "Freedom for the Stallion" were first issued on Polydor singles. "If I Were a Carpenter," "A Place Where We Can Be Free," and "Lonely Avenue" are newly issued Polydor tracks. Well worth searching for. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
laviolet 9th Dec 2014		CD Album Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days	Expanded version of the 1972 vinyl compilation. CD was never released in the US or included in the 2009 Apple reissues, so several of Hopkin's single tracks are not currently available commercially.
laviolet 5th Dec 2014		CD Album Irma Thomas - Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions	Six titles were originally released on Chess singles (see discography on 45cat); others were first issued on a 1984 Japanese LP Down at Muscle Shoals. CD is now out of print. If you want one, prepare to dig deep.
laviolet 3rd Dec 2014		78 RPM Frank Assunto And The Dukes Of Dixieland - Bourbon Street Parade / Glory Of Love	Added better quality A-side image. Alternate labels with minor variations exist.
laviolet 26th Nov 2014		78 RPM Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers - Hadacol Bounce / Her Mind Is Gone	Roy Byrd is better known as Professor Longhair. Mercury 8184 was withdrawn and reissued with "Oh Well" replacing "Hadacol Bounce," which to Mercury sounded too much like a commercial for the popular patent medicine.
laviolet 26th Nov 2014		78 RPM Professor Longhair - Looka, No Hair / Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand	Label image here.
laviolet 26th Nov 2014		78 RPM Professor Longhair - Look What You're Doin' To Me (Oooh-Wee Baby) / Misery	Label image here.
laviolet 26th Nov 2014		78 RPM Professor Longhair - No Buts	Label image here.
laviolet 26th Nov 2014		78 RPM Robert Boyd - East St. Louis Baby / Boyd's Bounce	This is Professor Longhair, miscredited (intentionally or otherwise) as "Robert Boyd." If I recall correctly, this was a live recording released without Byrd's knowledge. See label images here and here. "East St. Louis Baby" is "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" with lyrics reworked for local consumption. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 23rd Nov 2014		78 RPM Frank Assunto And The Dukes Of Dixieland - Bourbon Street Parade / Glory Of Love	Freddie Assunto (1929-1966) and his younger brother Frank (1932-1974) formed The Dukes Of Dixieland as teenagers in 1949. Vocalist "The Duchess" was Freddie's wife Betty Owens. Both "Bourbon Street Parade" writer Paul Barbarin (1899-1969) and Frank Assunto died on the day before Mardi Gras. See here for a retrospective of the Assuntos' career with the original Dukes. The Imperial version of "Bourbon Street Parade" appeared on the 2000 Hip-O compilation Mardi Gras Essentials. Here's a later version. In the photograph, from left: Freddie Assunto, father "Papa Jac" and Frank. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 16th Nov 2014		78 RPM Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans / Professor Longhair's Boogie	Label image here.
laviolet 16th Nov 2014		CD Album Irma Thomas - Full Time Woman	PhilMH, Irma agrees. As far as she's concerned, the "lost" album should have stayed lost. She didn't even know about the disc until asked about it at a record store. Atlantic was trying to make her sound like Diana Ross. Big mistake. The first three tracks, produced by Wardell Quezergue, are by far the best on the disc. See more on Irma's reaction here.
laviolet 11th Nov 2014		78 RPM Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers - Bald Head / Hey Now Baby	Roy Byrd is better known as Professor Longhair. "Bald Head" was his only chart hit. See label image here.
laviolet 11th Nov 2014		78 RPM Professor Longhair And His New Orleans Boys - Mardi Gras In New Orleans / She Walks Right In	Label image here.
laviolet 8th Nov 2014		CD Album Irma Thomas - Soul Queen Of New Orleans	Charly CD's often get knocked for sound quality, but somehow they find photographs I've never seen before. This CD is a case in point.
laviolet 8th Nov 2014		78 RPM Fats Domino - Detroit City Blues / The Fat Man	Cosimo Matassa, at whose studio this historic record was made, passed away in September 2014 at 88.
laviolet 8th Nov 2014		78 RPM Roy "Bald Head" Byrd - Hey Little Girl / Willie Mae	See label image here and also here. Roy "Bald Head" Byrd, of course, is better known as Professor Longhair, label credit was an attempt to cash in on Fess' prior Mercury hit.

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