CG/VIP/LNG/KPOO etc week of 4/3/06

[RGMike]

Ms Houston, "I Wanna Smoke Crack With Somebody". Don'cha wanna smoke, say ya wanna smoke!

[princessofcairo]

carla thomas concert on radio 2. click the underlined "hier" in the box with the lying dog.

[RGMike]

Greg pulls out superb back-to-back covers:  Candi Staton's "Nights on B'Way" followed by the Staples' superb re-do of T.Heads' "Slippery People".

[Alicat]

Ridin on the Grooveline. Yeah baby!

[RGMike]

WLNG Nugget o' the Day: Ian Matthews, "Shake It", which I probably haven't heard since '79.

Followed by Patti Drew, "Tell Him," apparently from '67 but new to me.

[RGMike]

Despite drifting in & out of consciousness, I managed to catch some of JJ's Soul Jam on KPOO Sat nite -- and he came up with at least three amazing tracks I'd never heard before:

1. The singer named Swamp Dogg doing a powerfully soulful rendition of (of all things) John Prine's Vietnam Vet classic "Sam Stone". No chart action on that one; I'm assuming early '70s, but -- wow.

2. Otis Clay with a Wilson Pickett-esque cover of "She's About a Mover".

3. The Emperors doing a track from '66 called "Karate" which was apparently stolen -- lock stock & barrel -- by Santana, who re-titled it "Everybody's Everything"! Amazing! Anybody have that Santana LP who can tell me who got a writer credit on "Everybody's..."?

[Gazoo]

3. The Emperors doing a track from '66 called "Karate" which was apparently stolen -- lock stock & barrel -- by Santana, who re-titled it "Everybody's Everything"! Amazing! Anybody have that Santana LP who can tell me who got a writer credit on "Everybody's..."?

I don't own either album, but thus spake AMG:

Santana: Milton Brown/Teddy Moss/Carlos Santana

And thus spake http://funky16corners.tripod.com/8_emperors.htm on the Emperors:

'Karate' was one in a long line of karate-themed dance tunes in 66 - 67, like Jerry-O's 'Karate Boogaloo', and Chubby Checker's 'Karate Monkey'. Written by Bobby Fulton's cousin Milton Brown and Tirone Moss (who would co-write all but one of the Emperor's original tunes), 'Karate' was a rocking dance craze number featuring a wailing lead vocal, hard drums and garage-y combo organ (played by Brown, and a major part of the Emperors 'sound' on all of their 45s).


So it would appear Santana gave the Emperors a credit.  This is actually very interesting -- since it's not a cover, per se, it may be the first instance of "sampling" in rock!

[RGMike]

Thanks, Gaz -- glad to see they got paid. When I heard the song last nite I damn near fell outta bed.

There are other examples of this sorta "sampling", and we've discussed one or 2 in this forum, no? can't think of one at the moment, but I will.

[ggould]

3. The Emperors doing a track from '66 called "Karate" which was apparently stolen -- lock stock & barrel -- by Santana, who re-titled it "Everybody's Everything"! Amazing! Anybody have that Santana LP who can tell me who got a writer credit on "Everybody's..."?

I don't own either album, but thus spake AMG:

Santana: Milton Brown/Teddy Moss/Carlos Santana

And thus spake http://funky16corners.tripod.com/8_emperors.htm on the Emperors:

'Karate' was one in a long line of karate-themed dance tunes in 66 - 67, like Jerry-O's 'Karate Boogaloo', and Chubby Checker's 'Karate Monkey'. Written by Bobby Fulton's cousin Milton Brown and Tirone Moss (who would co-write all but one of the Emperor's original tunes), 'Karate' was a rocking dance craze number featuring a wailing lead vocal, hard drums and garage-y combo organ (played by Brown, and a major part of the Emperors 'sound' on all of their 45s).

So it would appear Santana gave the Emperors a credit.  This is actually very interesting -- since it's not a cover, per se, it may be the first instance of "sampling" in rock!

When the Beach Boys did Surfin' USA, it was such an obvious clone, Chuck Berry was given co-credit for the songwriting!

[Gazoo]

When the Beach Boys did Surfin' USA, it was such an obvious clone, Chuck Berry was given co-credit for the songwriting!

Ahhhhhhh, I'd forgotten about that.  Danke Schoen!

[RGMike]

3. The Emperors doing a track from '66 called "Karate" which was apparently stolen -- lock stock & barrel -- by Santana, who re-titled it "Everybody's Everything"! Amazing! Anybody have that Santana LP who can tell me who got a writer credit on "Everybody's..."?

I don't own either album, but thus spake AMG:

Santana: Milton Brown/Teddy Moss/Carlos Santana

And thus spake http://funky16corners.tripod.com/8_emperors.htm on the Emperors:

'Karate' was one in a long line of karate-themed dance tunes in 66 - 67, like Jerry-O's 'Karate Boogaloo', and Chubby Checker's 'Karate Monkey'. Written by Bobby Fulton's cousin Milton Brown and Tirone Moss (who would co-write all but one of the Emperor's original tunes), 'Karate' was a rocking dance craze number featuring a wailing lead vocal, hard drums and garage-y combo organ (played by Brown, and a major part of the Emperors 'sound' on all of their 45s).

So it would appear Santana gave the Emperors a credit.  This is actually very interesting -- since it's not a cover, per se, it may be the first instance of "sampling" in rock!

When the Beach Boys did Surfin' USA, it was such an obvious clone, Chuck Berry was given co-credit for the songwriting!

YES -- that's one I was trying to think of!