Vinyl Albums - Comments by laviolet

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laviolet 8th Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Earl King - Trick Bag (1982)	Collection of single tracks released on the Imperial and Post labels between 1960 and 1962. Includes King's most covered song "Come On" (also known as "Let the Good Times Roll"), his only chart entry "Always a First Time", and his signature song "Trick Bag." [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 8th Apr 2020		Vinyl Album The Olympics - The Official Record Album Of The Olympics (1984)	The 1984 Olympics were the first games to be heavily commercialized, with products designated as the "Official [whatever] of the Olympics." Any parties using "Olympics" without sanction risked being hauled to court. The cover title was Rhino's wry trolling of the greedy organizers.
laviolet 16th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album The Meters - Fire On The Bayou (1975)	Fire on the Bayou was the first Meters album with Cyril Neville, youngest of the Neville brothers, as official member. "Mardi Gras Mambo," although credited to the Meters, wasn't written by them. It's the same song recorded 20 years earlier by Art Neville's first band, the Hawketts. A longer version of "Running Fast" was released on 45 RPM as the B side of "They All Ask'd For You" and later included on CD editions.
laviolet 5th Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things (1981)	This is an almost-but-not-quite reissue of the 1967 Instant LP; Ernie K-Doe's "Come on Home" (a Minit recording) replaced Aaron Neville's "For Every Boy There's a Girl" as the closing track.
laviolet 5th Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things (1967)	Songwriters: Lee Dorsey, Renald Richard (B3) Chris Kenner (A3, B2) Earl King (B4, as "S. Johnson") Roger Leon Jr., Earl Oropeza, Ray Theriot (A4) Raymond Lewis (B5) Art Neville (B6) Huey Smith, Brenda Brandon (A5) Allen Toussaint (A1, A2, A6, B1) Here's an excerpt from the sleeve notes by Greg Mason, program director of WNOE radio, referring to a pompous magazine article: "... it was jarring to hear listed among the NEWCOMERS, names like Art Neville and Lee Dorsey. It is understandable that a song writer like Allen Toussaint might not be well known, even if Herman's Hermits (A Certain Girl), The Rolling Stones (Fortune Teller) and numerous other British groups had recorded much of his material. And admittedly Chris Kenner might be a strange name to some, even though his own original versions of “Land Of A Thousand Dances” and “I Like It Like That” were giants in R&B circles, before they became giants in the pop world when later redone by Cannibal And The Headhunters, and The Dave Clark Five respectively. But to dig these established greats as NEW artists!" In 1967, Lee Dorsey had had Top Ten hits with "Ya Ya" and "Working in the Coal Mine." Art Neville was mainly known for the local hit "All These Things" and wasn't quite an established great yet. That came with the Meters and the Neville Brothers. Allen Toussaint, of course, became very well known. The Instant label's biggest hit "I Like It Like That" is curiously absent from this compilation. Linked release on Bandy has different content; "For Every Boy There's a Girl" was replaced by Ernie K-Doe's "Come on Home," a Minit recording.
laviolet 27th Feb 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things (1967)	See the Cosimo Code LP page for rear cover and label scans. Neither title nor catalog number appears on label; only Cosimo's matrix numbers. Track sources: A1: Instant 3246 (original 45 edit) A2, B3: Valiant 10011 and ABC-Paramount 10192 (A2 as "Lover of Love") A3: Instant 3237 A4: Seven B 7001 (original 45 edit) A5: Instant 3279 A6, B6: Airecords 333; tracks also released in different mixes on Instant 3282 B1: Alon 9029 B2: Instant 3252 (original 45 edit) B4: Alon 9000 B5: Instant 3242 [YouTube Video]
laviolet 14th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Archibald - Ballin' With Archie (1983)	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 (1987)	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 (1982)	"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 (1985)	Group name is rendered on original releases as "The Sha-Weez."