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Little Richard - I Don’t Know What You’ve Got (But It’s Got Me) (1965) (Prt.s1 and Prt.s2) Don Covay / Ace Hall from: "I Don't Know What You've Got"(Prt.1) / "I Don't Know What You've Got" (Prt.2) (Single)

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Personnel: Little Richard: Lead Vocals / Piano Maurice James (Jimi Hendrix): Guitar Billy Preston: Organ Ronny Miller: Bass Bernard Purdie: Drums

Saxophone: Clyde Johnson William Green Buddy Collette

Don Covay: Backing Vocals

Produced by Don Covay

Recorded: @ an unknown studio in New York City, New York on May 13, 1965

Released: November, 1965 Vee-Jay Records

+++ +++ +++ Elton John considers Little Richard's 1965 song "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)" "one of the greatest records ever made." On the Howard Stern Show, John expressed his admiration for the 1965 record: "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me) Parts One and Two" is one of the greatest records ever made". +++ +++ +++

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JIMMY REED Hush Hush

NOV '60

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Sheriff & the Ravels - Shombalor - 1959

https://youtu.be/DYLoXggytOI

'This and the Chips' "Rubber Biscuit" will live forever side-by-side as the two wildest (and finest) examples of doo-wop nonsense. Covered by the Cramps in 1992'

THE CHIPS - ''RUBBER BISCUIT''  (1956) 

https://youtu.be/E_D_mwTcsKk

The Chips were a short-lived New York doo-wop vocal group consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson (lead vocal), Nathaniel Epps (baritone), Paul Fulton (bass), Sammy Strain and Shedrick Lincoln (tenors). The group's first recording is their most enduring; "Rubber Biscuit" started life as Johnson's answer to the marching rhythms of the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers while he was an intern there.  

When Josie Records heard the tune they signed the group and the record was issued in September 1956. Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957. Only Sammy Strain went on to success in the music industry, as a member of Little Anthony & The Imperials from about 1961 to 1972 when he left to join The O'Jays. Strain left the O'Jays in 1992 to return to The Imperials, where he remained until his retirement in 2004...

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Sheriff & The Ravels - Shambalor - Late 50's Doo Wop Rocker

https://youtu.be/GZAymUv8vHU

Aki Aleong, a well known actor, produced and co-wrote this tune.

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“One of the Most Lowdown, Funkiest Musicians,” Hi Rhythm Section Drummer Howard Grimes Dies at 80

Howard Grimes, the Hi Rhythm Section drummer who powered recordings by Al Green, Ann Peebles, Otis Clay and others, has died at 80.

Grimes’ Feb. 12 death was first reported by the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, which cited kidney failure as the cause.

Working first as part of the Stax Records house band, Grimes later joined Hi and its titular Rhythm Section.

Grimes was “one of the most lowdown, funkiest musicians ever to walk the earth,” Vee-Jay Records said in a statement.

“I’ve sweat and cried playing along with your grooves,” Ryan Jewell said on Facebook in eulogizing Grimes. “Thank you for a lifetime of inspiration.”

More recently, drummer was a member of the Bo-Keys, who posted a photo of Grimes captioned “long live the Memphis beat,” and in 2021 released his autobiography, “Timekeeper: My Life In Rhythm” with a launch event at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

“We'll miss the gentle giant very much,” the museum said in a statement.

2/13/22

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The Beatles: Songs And Pictures Of The Fabulous Beatles (1964)

Vee-Jay Records

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John Lee Hooker - The Big Soul (Vee-Jay Records (US 1962)

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John Lee Hooker - Unfriendly Woman

“...dig that superb collaboration between Hooker & Jimmy Reed, stomping their way through "Unfriendly Woman".  Released in 1958.”