Chicago's soul sensations JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound will drop a new 73 on Tuesday, November 16, on Addenda Records which features a cover of The Kaldirons' "To Love Someone (That Don't Love You)" and "Everything Will Be Fine". Both the songs were recorded live in the studio with pre-1965 gear and are just a taste of their upcoming full-length, which is set to drop in 2011. You can pre-order the 73 and hear clips of both tracks right now at Addendarecords.com . You can also order the single from Chicago's [...]
(originally written for Side Dishes ) Don't say I'm not romantic or anything but as we're about to get buried underneath an avalanche of saccharin lovey-dovey-ness because of Valentine's Day, I thought it was fair to point out that, really, the best love songs are about falling out of love, not into it. New love is great and blah blah blah but nothing says passion and desperation like heartache does. That's why, for V-Day, I threw together a special Tears On Your Pillow set of songs for those who know that no love is so sweet as [...]
In 1975 Blaxplotation films were huge. A Chicago music group was asked to do a soundtrack for a soon-to-be-released film, but the movie never got made. And now over 30 years later the Brotherman soundtrack is finally coming to life....
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE Percy Mayfield Specialty : 1950 Available on: Poet of the Blues Specialty : 1990 [Buy It] WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Shirelles Scepter : 1961 Available on: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Varese : 1999 [Buy It] LOVE GOES TO BUILDING ON FIRE (DEMO) The Talking Heads CBS : 1975 CBS Demo Recordings [Unreleased] TEENAGER IN LOVE [...]
WHAT TIME IS IT? The Jive Five Beltone : 1962 Available on: Our True Story Ace : 1991 [Buy It] I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS Roland Kirk Quartet Mercury : 1962 Available on: Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Polygram : 1990 [Buy It] TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ed Pauling & The Exciters Federal : 1965 Available on: The "5" Royales : Catch That Teardrop : The Best of the Home [...]
The Kaldirons: To Love Someone From 7" (Twinight, 1970) Dynamic Tints: Be My Lady From 7" (Twinight, 1970) Both on Twinight's Lunar Rotation (Numero Group, 2007). I admit - it's kind of wack for me to copy n' paste my own article from another source but I had been meaning to write about the Twinight's Lunar Rotation comp for a while and having just done it for NPR's Song of the Day , I thought it'd [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
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