midnight hour

New Year is upon us and we'll all be waiting for that midnight hour to bring in 2009. Here's 10 midnight hours in no particular order.

01 wilson pickett - In The Midnight Hour (atlantic)
02 wilson pickett - In The Midnight Hour (motown)
03 benny gordon - Midnight Hour (RCA 9144)
04 the wanted - midnight hour (detroit sound 223)
05 the toasters - the midnight hour - (SKA The Third Wave, Volume 2, Cover It Up! (beloved)) track 2
06 the silvertones - midnight hour (Soul Shot TIS 163 side A)
07 u roy - midnight hour (coxsone dodd - treasure isle mood cd) track 12
08 horace ferguson - midnight hour (GG's no matrix side A)
09 john holt - midnight hour (Striker Lee DSR 17636 side A)
10 pat kelly - midnight hour (Py Py Love) track 7

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here come the night owls

I do like the way that some tunes get remade over and over, it happens a lot with Jamaican music with many different versions of the same riddim. Anyway here's the start of my selections of remakes and versions of the same song, starting off with Night Owl.

01 Tony Allen - night owl (the r&b years 1955 vol 2 (bvdcd1014)) cd 2 track 25
02 Bad Habits - night owl (paula records 45)
03 Bobby Paris -night owl (here comes the night owl (Goldmine Soul Supply cd) track 7
04 Freddie Mcgregor - night owl (The Early Years-Cd) track 15
05 Horace Andy -night owl (skylarking (studio one) cd bonus track 15
06 Prince Jazzbo - night owl ( Choice of Version (Studio One - SO LP 1959)) B7
07 Dennis Alcapone -fine style 45 (Attack ATT8027A)
08 The Pietasters - night owl (edit) (Strapped Live (Moon Ska_Caroline) track 10

night owls

You Did It!!

A selection of soul, early and new funk for starters, here’s the blurb (and shameless product placing advertising) for those of you that read this stuff.

More information about Sharon Jones (track 1) and The Sugarman 3 (track 17) can be found at http://www.daptonerecords.com.

Track 2, is from the superb funk compilation Super Funk on the beat goes public label. Check it out, or even buy it at http://www.acerecords.co.uk.

Track 3, is off a (bootleg?) cd someone sent me entitled ‘uptight ...new sensational northern soul compilation’ where it’s from and who compiled it would be nice to know.

Track 4, the fabulous Big Ella, this track is taken from a compilation by jazzman records, Sister Funk 2 (the sounds of the unknown soul sisters). It can be got from Amazon or you could try here https://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk

Track 5, 6 and 12, are both taken from Sister Funk 1 (you can see how much I rate this cd having put 3 tracks from it on here)

Track 7, has been lifted from an excellent compilation of solid funk tunes entitled, Funk 'n Roll - A Collection Of 70's Rare Funky Trips (http://www.dustygroove.com)

Track 8, is from Preston Love's Omaha Bar-B-Q on the beat goes public label, Amazon is the place for this gem.

Tracks 9, 10 and 11, are from another brilliant compilation Ghetto Funk (15 Rare & Classic Ghetto Vibe Tunes) dunno where you’d get it from should you want to buy it. (another compilation i rate highly)

Track 13, is a 45, WESTBOUND 165

Track 14, is taken from SuperFunk - Rare Funk From Deep In The Crates which you can get from here should you wish to (i’d recommend it) http://www.dustygroove.com

Track 15, don’t know where it’s from, except that it’s on a compilation a friend did for me.

Track 16, is a 45, Cord RRS-5007-B

Track List

01 sharon jones - do right man
02 the casanovas - hook and boogit (part 1)
03 the fabulous dimensions - i can't take it baby
04 big ella - the queen
05 ann robinson - you did it
06 joyce dunn - a new change of address
07 incredible bongo band - bongo rock
08 preston love - chilli mac
09 80's ladies - turned on to you
10 tommy stewart - bump and hustle music
11 irma franklin - light my fire
12 pearl dowel - good things
13 gene anderson - the devil made me do it
14 panzant brothers - skunk juice
15 delores early - It's about time i made a change
16 the revolutionaries - having a party instrumental
17 sugar man 3 - bosco's blues

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just testing

Eventually I'll have learned how to make this work and then will be posting a varied and eclectic collection of music for your listening pleasure. While you are waiting you could visit smilingirl's reggae podcast and have a listen.