best records on Stax.....(not sister labels)
P_Clendeninn
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booker t and the mg's- melting pot
P_Clendeninn
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- HOME, Delaney & Bonnie
- BEALTITUDE: RESPECT YOURSELF, Staple Singers
- "Memphis Train" b/w "I Think I Made A Boo Boo," Rufus Thomas
- "I Believe In You" b/w "Love Depression," Johnnie Taylor
- "Look Around You" b/w "Happy Human People," Black Society
- those two Sons of Slum singles
Why no sister labels?
Carla - Carla Thomas
Booker T/MGs - Soul Limbo
Jean Knight - Mr.Big Stuff
Skin Alley - Two Quid Deal (for Bad Words And Evil People alone!)
I started to say...no Stax sister labels and we wouldn't have such goodies as "In The Rain"/"Gimme Some Good Soul Music (45 by the Dramatics on Volt) and OFF THE CUFF (album by Freddie Robinson on Enterprise).
yea!
Sam & Dave - Double Dynamite
Booker T. & the Mg's - Uptight OST & Melting Pot
45's:
Eddie Floyd - Big Bird, I've Just Been Feeling Bad
William Bell - I Forgot to Be Your Lover
Wendy Rene - Young & Foolish, After Laughter
Booker T - Chinese Checkers[/b]
is
underrated
and its got one badass pedal steel
...ECAEP
No shit. Sons of Slumper's "What Comes Around" and "The Man" are two of my favorite songs. The band was so incredibly tight on those cuts. The horn arrangements come out of the speaker and punch you in the face. Does anyone have the reported album they made? Or info on the band?
Rufus Thomas -
Sophisticated Sissy
Itch and Scratch
Funky Penguin
The Breakdown
Funky Chicken
Mar-keys - Grab This Thing
Barkays -
Soul Finger
Memphis At Sunrise
Otis and Carla - Tramp
Albert King -
Ill play the Blues For you
Cold Feet
Dramatatics-
(Gimme Some) Good Soul Music/ In The Rain
What ya see is What ya Get
Eddie Floyd- Bring It on Home
Johnny Taylor- Stop Teasin' Me
...and a ton more!!!
sister labels is too easy....that's why i said no sister labels in the title of my post.
They were the backing band for the Emotions. On the WATTSTAX: LIVING WORD comp, all of the Emotions tracks (except, I THINK, "Peace Be Still") featured the S.O.S. behind them.
The Emotions: Blind Alley
gotta be a fave right there.
THAT'S ON VOLT....READ THE POST PEOPLE!!
Eddie Floyd-Big Bird
Staple Singers-Stay with us
Drapels-Wondering when my love is coming home
Rufus Thomas-Funky Missisippi
Booker T-Slim Jenkins PLace
Wendy Rene-After Laughter
Mable John-your good thing is about to end
Sam and Dave-said I wasnt gonna tell nobody
and about a few dozen more.....
- albert king's I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU
- jimmy mccracklin's YESTERDAY IS GONE (although i have the 80's Stax reish, retitled HIGH ON THE BLUES for some obscure reason)
and jean knight do me
and every rufus thomas single
Opus De Soul- Albert King, Pop Staples & Steve Cropper (7")
Crown Prince of Dance- Rufus Thomas (LP)
it is some heat to me...
I also got a 45 by RLJ on josie, good tambien
anybody got info on either? I'm suprised I havent heard much about dude
plus guilty pleasure "whose makin love" by Johnny Taylor
otis and carla-king and queen
soul children-s/t
Roy Lee was a member of OKeh recording artists Dr. Feelgood & the Interns, in the early sixties. He wrote "Mr. Moonlight," which the Beatles later covered (so if R.L. is still alive, hopefully he's stashing the cash).
He also recorded singles under his own name for Stax, OKeh, and Philips (where he recorded the badass swamp rocker "She Put The Whammy To Me").
Why would this be a guilty pleasure? Is southern soul not your thing, but you happen to love this one song? Not chastising, just wondering.
Speaking of Johnnie...look out for his 1972 single "Don't You Fool With My Soul (Parts One & Two)." I don't think this was on any album, and I believe Johnnie produced this himself. It sounds like some raw homemade funk 45 on some basement label. The band is really loose, and JT sounds like he's making the words up on the spot. It was during a transitional period, when he was phasing out the sub-Sam & Dave stompers like "Who's Making Love," but hadn't yet gone silky smooth ("Stop Doggin' Me," "I Believe In You").
The volume of Johnny Taylor 45's I have come across while digging is amazing - dude must have at least 30 singles on Stax, and there were so many of each pressed that they are just everywhere, for pennies (not even mentioning the other Johnny Taylor, of Galaxy/Ronn etc) - my two favorites are his version of the indestructable "(I Wanna) Testify," and "Shackin' Up." The LP that the former is from, "The Johnny Taylor Philosophy Continues," looks like it should be dope, and probably his best, but I have yet to find it under $25...and I'm a patient man.
big tunes (when he was cheesing) and it seemes to me it was one of the big singles as stax
was headed down hill, like a signal of the end, and that in itself makes it a little suspect
(one of those first deadly step toward pop-disco)
maybe i am too quick to judge...
BTW, you seem to have the stax history down...
What do you know about the Temprees Love Maze LP? (I Know I am Violating Thread Rules)
I got 2 copies, one is minty, but I cant find it anyplace,,, and it is like my favorite Southern soul lp
any info would be appreciated...
I'm in the dark up here in VT,,,
On the strength of the singles, I probably see more JT seven-inchers than any other artist on the label (and that includes the big guns like Otis, Isaac and the Staples). Except for the last two (TAYLORED & SILK and SUPER TAYLOR), you don't see his Stax albums that often, but the singles are ubiquitous.
Never trust anybody who says that Stax went downhill after Otis Redding died in '67. Even though Johnnie was on the label when the Big O was still alive, his career took off after Otis left. Love the way Johnnie's Stax years break down in three phases: twelve-bar blues (1966-67), uptempo Sam & Dave castoffs (1968-71), and the silky ballads (1972-75). Not to mention the weird one-off funk 45 from 1972 that I mentioned above.
Just so you know - my comment above about not trusting anyone who thinks Stax went downhill around '68 wasn't directed at you, but ironically it was written before I saw your post!
That said, "Who's Making Love" to me was the start of a golden age. At that point Stax still had the Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, the Dramatics, the Emotions, MELTING POT, Big Star, Rance Allen, "Mr. Big Stuff," "Woman To Woman," and WATTSTAX to look forward to, plus (from the old guard) Johnnie Taylor, the Bar-Kays, Albert King, Isaac Hayes and others. That don't look like a label in decline to me!
It's a pretty good album. The Temprees actually had three albums on We Produce (another Stax sister label) - the first one, LOVE MEN, had their hit remake of "Dedicated To The One I Love," which is probably the only version that I like! They also had a Christmas song that was reissued on an 80's Stax comp, IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME AGAIN. I think they later turned up on Epic too.
love those temprees albums...I did not know thay did a Xmas album, though I usually hate
those things...
Thanks