So real. I'm right there with you on this, dude.b,121b,121As far as albums, maybe Universal Jones? (Defintiely not Headless Heroes, though. Why is that?) For loosies, David Clayton Thomas's (I know, right?) "Don't Let It Bring You Down" stays just the right side of the line. b,121b,121h,121
font class="post"1b,121b,121dont know the dct, but i never was able to appreciate universal jones. tried many times, but it never worked. i love headless heroes, and i am in the minority that likes outlaw even more.but universal jones, besides the great title, dope cover, and leftrevmcD involvement, didnt have any songs that were right there with their finger on the pulse of life
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(S)/The Victors (M)//Mac Arthur Park (S)/This Guy's In Love With You (S)/Baby I Need Your Loving (S)/Both Sides Now (S)/Bridge Over Troubled Water (S, actually mostly a mono recitation, with stereo instrumentation at the end)b,121b,121MW-104 - [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-105 - Devastating Affair [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-106 - Blackberries [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-107 - 7th Son - G.C. Cameron [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-108L - Chameleon - Frankie Valli & Four Seasons [5/72] A New Beginning (Prelude) (S)/Sun Country (S)/You're A Song (That I Can't Sing) (S)/The Night (S)/A New Beginning (S)//When The Morning Comes (S)/Poor Fool - Frankie Valli (S)/Touch The Rainchild (S)/Love Isn't There - Frankie Valli (S)b,121b,121MW-109 - With Love - Sisters Love [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-110 - Commodores [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-111 - Blinky [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-112 - [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-113 - Syreeta - Syreeta [6/72] (8-72, #185) I Love Every Little Thing About You/Black Maybe/Keep Him Like He Is/Happiness//She's Leaving Home/What Love Has Joined Together/How Many Days/Baby Don't You Let Me Lose This/To Know You Is To Love Youb,121b,121MW-114 - Frankie Valli [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-115 - Odyssey - Odyssey [5/72] Home Of The Brave/Georgia Song/Country Tune/Gossamer Wings/Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love//Wondrous Castles/Battened Ships/Sunny California Wo- man/Black Top Island (Of the West)/Broken Roadb,121b,121MW-116 - [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-117 - Someplace Else Now - Leslie Gore [7/72] For Me/The Road I Walk/Out Of love/She Said That/Don't Wanna Be One/Be My Life//Where Do You Go/What Did I Do Wrong/Someplace Else Now/Mine/No Sad Songs/For Youb,121b,121MW-118L - Hollywood - Crusaders [7/72] Spanish Harlem/Try a Little Harder/Hollywood/Do Yourself A Favor//Cold Duck Eddie/Way Back Home/Papa Hooper's Barrelhouse Groove/Alekesamb,121b,121MW-119 - Celebration - Celebration [7/72] Which Train You Ridin'/Lean On Me/Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo/The Circle Again/Are You Ready?//A House Is Not A Home/Poor Ol' Soul/Let Love Carry You Along/Since I Met You There's No Magic/Medley: You've Got A Friend-You're All I Need To Get Byb,121b,121MW-120 - Dazzle 'Em with Footwork - Martin & Finley [Unissued] Issued as Motown M6- 797S1.b,121b,121MW-121 - Repairs - Repairs [11/72] Songwriter/Preacher/Time/Circus Song/Off My Mind/Travis Pickin' C//Lord Of The Mountains/Confessions/Fiddler/Nowhere/Fine And Gentle Lady/Timelineb,121b,121MW-122 - Kubie - Kubie [Unissued]b,121b,121MW-123 - Stacie - Stacie Johnson [Unissued] Changed to Motown M-776 and then unreleased on that label.b,121b,121MW-124 - G.C. Cameron [Unissued] b,121b,121b,121b,121aaaaaaand the 7"sb,121b,121b,121 5001 - The Devastating Affair - I Want To Be Humble / My Place - Jan - 1972b,1215002 - Tom Clay - What The World Needs Now Is Love - Abraham, Martin And John / The Victors - Jun - 1971b,1215003 - Lodi - Happiness / I Hope To See It In My Lifetime - Aug - 1971b,1215004 - Suzee Ikeda - Zip - A - Dee Doo - Dah / Bah - Bah - Bah - Oct - 1971b,1215005 - G.C. Cameron - Act Like A Shotgun / Girl, I Really Love You - Aug - 1971b,1215006 - Bobby Taylor - Hey Lordy / Just A Little Bit Closer - Nov - 1971b,1215007 - Tom Clay - Whatever Happened To Love /Baby I Need Your Loving - Oct - 1971b,1215008 - Thelma Houston - I Want To Go Back There Again / Pick Of The Week - Nov - 1971b,1215009 - The Commodores - The Zoo (The Human Zoo) / I'm Looking For Love - Mar - 1972b,1215010 - Not Assignedb,1215011 - Frankie Valli - Love Isn't Here (Like It Used To Be) / Poor Fool - Feb - 1972b,1215012 - G.C. Cameron - I'm Gonna Get You - Part 1 / I'm Gonna Get You - Part 2 - Not Releasedb,1215013 - Thelma Houston - Me And Bobby McGee / No One's Gonna Be A Fool Forever - Mar - 1972b,1215014 - The Sisters Love - Mr. Fix - It Man / You've Got To Make The Choice - Mar - 1972b,1215015 - G.C. Cameron - What It Is, What It Is / You Are That Special One - Mar - 1972b,1215016 - Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You / Black Maybe - Sep - 1972b,1215017 - Suzee Ikeda - I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You / Mind, Body And Soul - Jun - 1972b,1215018 - Michelle Aller - Just Not Gonna Make It / Spend Some Time Together - Aug - 1972b,1215019 - Blinky - For Your Precious Love / So Tired - Jun - 1972b,1215020 - The Blackberries - Somebody Up There / But I Love Him - Not Releasedb,1215021 - Syreeta - To Know You Is To Love You / Happiness - Jul - 1972b,1215022 - Odyssey - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love / Broken Road - Aug - 1972b,1215023 - Thelma Houston - Piano Man / Me And Bobby McGee - 1972b,1215024 - Not Assignedb,1215025 - Frankie Valli - The Night / Sun Country - Not Releasedb,1215025 - Frankie Valli - The Night (Mono) / The Night (Stereo) - Aug - 1972b,1215026 - The Four Seasons - Walk On, Don't Look Back / Sun Country - Aug - 1972b,1215027 - Thelma Houston - What If / There Is A Fool - Aug - 1972b,1215028 - The Crusaders - Spanish Harlem / Papa Hooper's Barrelhouse Groove - Oct - 1972b,1215029 - Lesley Gore - The Road I Walk / She Said That - Oct - 1972b,1215030 - The Sisters Love - You've Got My Mind / Try It, You'll Like It - Oct - 1972b,1215031 - Repairs - Songwriter / Fiddler - Oct - 1972b,1215032 - Kubie - Glad That You're Not Me / Child, He Die - Oct - 1972b,1215033 - Blinky - T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do / What More Can I Do - Jan - 1973b,1215034 - Celebration - A House Is Not A Home / The Circle Again - Not Releasedb,1215034 - Celebration - Since I Met You There's No Magic / The Circle Again - Not releasedb,1215035 - G.C. Cameron and Willie Hutch - Come Get This Thang / My Woman - Jan - 1973b,1215036 - G.C. Cameron - Don't Wanna Play Pajama Games / Jesus Help Me Find Another Way - Jan - 1973b,1215037 - Nu Page - When The Brothers Come Marching Home / A Heart Is A House - Feb - 1973b,1215038 - The Commodores - Don't You Be Worried / Determination - Jan - 1973b,1215039 - Martin and Finley - Long Life And Success To The Farmer / Half Crazed - Nov - 1972b,1215040 - Michael Campbell - Angel Got A Book Today / The People In The Valley - Jan - 1973b,1215041 - The Sisters Love - (I Could Never Make) A Better Man Than You / Give Me Your Love - Jan - 1973b,1215042 - Lesley Gore - Give It To Me Sweet Thing / Don't Want To Be The One - Not releasedb,1215043 - Martin and Finley - Thinkin' Bout My Baby / Best Friends - not releasedb,1215044 - Music Makers - Follow Me - Mother Nature / And I Thought You Loved Me - Not releasedb,1215045 - Stoney - Let Me Come Down Easy / It's Always Me - Not releasedb,1215046 - Thelma Houston - If It's The Last Thing I Do / And I Never Did - Not Releasedb,1215047 - Stacie Johnson - Woman In My Eyes / A Carbon Copy - Not Releasedb,1215048 - Art and Honey - Let's Make Love Now / (I've Given You) The Best Years Of My Life - Not releasedb,1215049 - Not Assignedb,1215050 - Thelma Houston - I'm Just A Part Of Yesterday / Piano Man - Mar - 1973b,1215051 - Michel Legrand / Gil Askey - Love Theme From "Lady Sings The Blues" / Any Happy Home - Not Released
Maybe it would be a more interesting label if the issued some of those LP's. Syreeta: S/T is my favourite Mowest release. Great production by her husband.
b,121The girl's dope... wrote all the tunes, but I can see it not being for enveryone---like most records that fall into this category. There all a little leftfield. The track's called Mr. Man that kicks it for me:
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b,121MW-103L - What the World Needs Now Is Love - Tom Clay [7/71] (8-71, #92) What The World Needs Now Is Love-Abraham, Martin And John (S)/Whatever Happened To Love (S)/What's Goin' On (S)/For Years? (S)/The Victors (M)//Mac Arthur Park (S)/This Guy's In Love With You (S)/Baby I Need Your Loving (S)/Both Sides Now (S)/Bridge Over Troubled Water (S, actually mostly a mono recitation, with stereo instrumentation at the end)
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font class="post"1b,121b,121"What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John" was Mowest's biggest (only?) hit...a sound collage of gunshots, newcasts, JFK and MLK speeches, and the voice of a child who struggles to define prejudice ("I think it's when somebody's sick"). Tom Clay was a Detroit DJ, and after he had his hit, he followed it up with this album of maudlin recitations.b,121b,121/font1
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b,1215037 - Nu Page - When The Brothers Come Marching Home / A Heart Is A House - Feb - 1973
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font class="post"1b,121b,121Good "Vietnam soul" record, obviously rush-released to cash in on the war being called off.
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I got that Tom Clay on a 45 donkey's years ago, and the album was a 50p charity shop score in the mid-90s. The single is one of those great, slightly oddball records that people either love or hate. I've put it on quite a few mixtapes down the years, and have had people say either that it's fantastic or it's really depressing. There's nothing else so noteworthy on the album, although I did spot a Deee-Lite sample on one track. I've hung onto it as much for its curiosity value as anything else.b,121b,121Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons' "The Night" was a big Northern Soul/pop crossover hit in the UK, and I'm sure I remember Thelma Houston getting a UK hit on Mowest too, probably with her version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", although it's not on that list.
b,121I got that Tom Clay on a 45 donkey's years ago, and the album was a 50p charity shop score in the mid-90s. The single is one of those great, slightly oddball records that people either love or hate.
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font class="post"1b,121b,121I first heard that on an oldies station as a kid, and thought it was EXTREMELY oddball. As I aged, it sounded more and more like baby-boomer nostalgia as heard through news clips, but I still have a fondness for it. I don't want to call it a "novelty," but you don't hear too many left-field songs like this on contemporary hit radio anymore. And that interview with the little girl who doesn't know what "bigotry" or "hatred" is kills me every time.b,121b,121/font1
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b,121I'm sure I remember Thelma Houston getting a UK hit on Mowest too, probably with her version of "Don't Leave Me This Way", although it's not on that list.
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font class="post"1b,121b,121Motown would have already retired Mowest by the time "Don't Leave Me" was a hit (1977), although maybe the UK would have kept it going longer??
b,121universal jones, besides the great title, dope cover, and leftrevmcD involvement, didnt have any songs that were right there with their finger on the pulse of life
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font class="post"1b,121b,121Not even "Sidewalk Man"? That's a great song IMO. The breakdown is nasty.
b,121i never got too far past "our lives" but i will give it some more listens....
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b,121while we are at it and while people are mentioning archie whitewater, what else falls into this category and what is this category called? i believe johnyp called it the "happysad" vibe many many threads ago...and on my yearly pilgrimage to GoodRecords, i ask what he's got in the "archie-air-happysad" vein. I'd include Air (the one on embryo) and moments of the 2 "Albert" LPs on perception (while more bloodsweatandtears rocked out, they have this similar undercurrent of melancholy). i would also throw in Sergio Mendes "Stillness" LP. not coincidentaly, most of these were advocated for and editorialized about in OnTheGo magazine's diggin in the crates section by one of my main diggin deeper influences, Ben Velez.
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never liked peppers pow wow. what were you hearing that i wasnt?b,121b,121dont front on air...b,121object width="425" height="344"1param name="movie" value=""1/param1param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"1/param1embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"1/embed1/object1b,121b,121mr man is hardly the best track. brilliant record.
Read my ISH review, he's pouring his heart out on Witchi Tai To, it's obvious. Very moving tune. b,121b,121As to the Air record: b,121Santana jamz, strike 1. Carole King jamz, strike 2.
i1So[/i] real. I'm right there with you on this, dude.
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Universal Jones? (Defintiely not Headless Heroes, though. Why is that?) For loosies, David Clayton Thomas's (I know, right?) "Don't Let It Bring You Down" stays just the right side of the line. b,121b,121h,121
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b,121dont know the dct, but i never was able to appreciate universal jones. tried many times, but it never worked. i love headless heroes, and i am in the minority that likes outlaw even more.but universal jones, besides the great title, dope cover, and leftrevmcD involvement, didnt have any songs that were right there with their finger on the pulse of life
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font class="post"1b,121b,121Yeah, you know what? You're probably right.b,121b,121I pulled that Universal Jones record this past weekend after not having listened to it for quite I while, and I should clarify: It is "like Archie Whitewater" on the level of "being sonically similar--with the instrumentation and the way-frontal vocals and all that"; it is not, however, "like Archie Whitewater" on the (somewhat important) level of "being a very good record." b,121b,121Sorry for the bum steer.b,121b,121I think the only Air thing I play is "Realize," though I do sometimes bump Googie's "Missing Love" when I'm indoors during light spring rains.
Yeah, "HappySad" is a good way of putting it. I've always referred to this type of stuff as "multicolored sweater music" I definitely tried to capture that vibe on this joint.
Missed this when originally posted. Repost, Maybe?
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Missed this when originally posted. Repost, Maybe?
I just posted this up: an interview (plus music samples) from the new Mowest comp that Light in the Attic is dropping tomorrow: http://wp.me/p1klrs-Ef
it was true then and it's true now.
that frankie vali tune is serious.