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Old 07-24-2013, 02:16 PM   #41 (permalink)
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I loved the robust female lead vocal on Ray Charles "Hit the road Jack", the back and forth between her & Ray I think is brilliant. After a quick look on Wikipedia Hit the Road Jack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia it turns out that the track was written by a songwriter & r&b artist called Percy Mayfield, I always presumed that it was a Ray Charles composition.

It became famous after it was recorded by singer-songwriter-pianist Ray Charles with the Raelettes vocalist Margie Hendricks.

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Old 08-23-2013, 01:42 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I love the saxophone playing on Paul Ankas "Diana" song. Am still trying to find out who it was.


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Old 08-23-2013, 02:15 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Lady Bo a.k.a. Peggy Malone. She played guitar for Bo Diddly on a slew of his recordings and is often credited as him. The remarkable thing is, when she first met him, she didn't even know how to play. She is also the first to truly recognize the talent of Jimi Hendrix. He was playing as Jimmy James and she would sneak him onstage in the middle of shows so that people could hear him play. Quite a woman.

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Old 01-05-2014, 03:05 PM   #44 (permalink)
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The bass playing earlier on today caught my ear. The playing was done by Louis Satterfield

http://www.discogs.com/artist/384439-Louis-Satterfield


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Old 01-05-2014, 03:32 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Carol Kaye. Played bass on Smile,on Pet Sounds and on god only knows what. Also Nick Hopkins.
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Old 01-06-2014, 03:36 AM   #46 (permalink)
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Johnny Green's Blues Cowboys are an Australian kind of blues boogie band from Newcastle. Playing for a long time now, they have a good following. I think they have one of the best guitarists in the world (Flash Sheedy). He's a true old time blues player used to carry a guitar everywhere, playing all his life.
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This is the work of Syd Dale - no big hit singles, although this would have clearly made it somewhere. Just someone who worked in the field of what is now known as Film Library Music. Back in the day, when Independent films were usually SKIN-dependent films (or just general Exploitation) and there was some spaces needed to be filled up in the sound, the Director or some lackey would go to some studio where they had libraries of music where you could throw down some $ for music to be used in your movie. In a way, these sounds seriously made the flick apart from some delicious sights you saw (but did not tell your wife!!!). The Roughies used the best music - usually exciting, as seedy as the streets they played on, and at times using great Classical pieces (This would be a tip of the hat to Mike and Roberta Findlay, possibly the best Roughie film makers of the 60's - Don't be fooled by their crap 70's Horrors, they were excellent and ultra sleazy in The 60's).

I loved a lot of the music that was thrown into these films. Seriously unsung in my book!!!
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Old 05-01-2014, 05:02 PM   #48 (permalink)
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At 2.45 is a trumpet player called Derek Watkins, who has played on all of the James Bond films. Quite an achievement.

He passed away in March last year.


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The Double Stop Podcast with Brian Sword

Found out about an interesting podcast where they interview musicians/singers, well worth a listen, with a nice selection of episodes to choose from.
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