“I Gotcha” isn’t the only Joe Tex song, notable though it is for having appeared on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack and for being awesome. It’ll be on the list later. No. 41, though, is “Papa Was Too.”
29 October 2013, No. 40, Fat Larry’s Band, ‘Down on the Avenue’
I’d like No. 40 a whole lot even if it weren’t for the open drums, but they just make it hotter. Nothing’s ever new “Down on the Avenue” when you’re with Fat Larry’s Band. Full of smiles on the first and the fifteenth, though.
28 October 2013, No. 39, Eddie Bo with Inez Cheatem, ‘Lover and a Friend’
And No. 39 makes up for slack yesterday. More big open drums from Eddie Bo, this time with Inez Cheatem, “Lover and a Friend.”
27 October 2013, No. 38, Archie Bell and the Drells, ‘Don’t Let Love Get You Down (Ed Zone Re-Edit)’
No. 38 is Ed Zone’s edit of Archie Bell and the Drells doing “Don’t Let Love Get You Down” from the Philadelphia International re-edits disc. This list will have a number of cuts from that compilation; this one is first because it’s the slowest.
26 October 2013, Nos. 36 and 37, Robert Upchurch, ‘The Devil Made Me Do It’; Sister Sledge, ‘Reach Your Peak (12” Mix)’
Skipped posting for a few days, so I’ll do two today. I’ll also blame the devil for my lapse in activity over the weekend. Why not? Robert Upchurch does in
No. 36, “The Devil Made Me Do It.” This “extended mix” is five minutes shorter than the version I’ve got, but you
get the picture. [Edit: video down, replaced with even shorter version; sorry.]
23 October 2013, No. 35, Idris Muhammad, ‘Express Yourself’
Another cover at No. 35. Got a lot of these on the list, instrumental versions of tunes that are supposed to have vocals. Idris Muhammad covering Charles
Wright’s “Express Yourself.”
22 October 2013, No. 34, Rosebud, ‘Money’
No. 34 gets a “novelty” designation in its genre ID3 tag. But that doesn’t mean it’s not an ill tune. And squeezing that weird 7/4 bassline into 4/4 works
quite well. Rosebud’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Money.” Aw yeah.