― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 17 June 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
It made me curious enough to scrabble together a copy of The Temptations' 'Psychedelic Shack' and 'All Directions.' Fabulous stuff.
The sheer wrongness of Geir's posts and yet he still continues on.
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
For anyone who's bothering to look, here's a better link for the one upthread that doesn't work (for me, anyway): http://members.tripod.com/~lysergia_2
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
pulled out Quincy Jones' soundtrack to Body Heat and damn if those songs don't sound like lost whitfield produced Temptation songs.
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 2 April 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
bumping this thread because i don't feel like making a new one
was listening to an old recording of the jefferson airplane doing syl johnson's "dresses too short" and i feel like this is something i've maybe underappreciated over the years, "heavy" sixties rock bands doing old soul tunes, tunes that are pretty new for me because they didn't make it as part of the "classic rock" canon (ref recent thread about "got my mind set on you". like, for a long time i didn't know "lovelight" wasn't a dead song. and then you have those early zep concerts from their first us tour where they do a very, very zep style version of garnet mimms' "long as i have you".
anyway, i'm sure there's tons more examples like this but i just don't know enough about sixties soul. thoughts?
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
I guess by "old soul tunes" you mean old in 2022, because "Dresses Too Short" was more or less contemporary to the Airplane, and "Long As I Have You" would only have been four or five years old?The first thing that came to mind was James Gang doing "Stop" by Howard Tate on their first album, and that song had only been out for a year. Also, the Beach Boys weren't heavy, but they did cover "I Was Made to Love Her" in 1967.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
check out the animals covering eddie & ernie's "outcast"
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
Alot of the Airplane archival albums credit "Dresses..." to Balin, so imagine my surprise when I heard the Syl for the first time at the local "Soul Night" and thought it was the Dap Kings or somebody doing JA!
The Dead also did "Hard To Handle".
Paul Butterfield (not the heaviest) did "Get Out of My Life, Woman" (by Lee Dorsey) and "One More Heartache" (by Marvin Gaye) when they were brand spanking new singles.
Vanilla Fudge lords over all with "You Keep Me Hangin' On".
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield did "Stop" as an instrumental on Super Session.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ @ the extra-ignorant Geir posts itt.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
― Halfway there but for you
"Dolly Rocker, it's called Dolly RockerIt's an old make of dressWell, months old, you knowThat sort of thing"
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 July 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
mccain otm re: vanilla fudge + "hard to handle." good jams.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Saturday, 23 July 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
Vanilla Fudge also did "Shotgun" (Junior Walker). Deep Purple did "River Deep, Mountain High" (Tina Turner). The Small Faces did "Every Little Bit Hurts" (Brenda Holloway). The Jimmy Page-era Yardbirds did "My Baby" (Garnet Mimms). Of course Janis Joplin/Big Brother did "Piece of My Heart" (Erma Franklin) which became a hit + part of the classic rock canon, so I guess it's disqualified... likewise "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (The Temptations) by Rod Stewart with the Faces. Janis Joplin also did "Tell Mama" (Etta James) and various other soul tunes. The Who did James Brown songs and "Heat Wave" (Martha & the Vandellas) but that was early in their career. I thought the Velvet Underground might have done "Hitch Hike" (Marvin Gaye) but I guess they just swiped the intro of it. The MC5 did "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (James Brown).
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 July 2022 07:12 (one year ago) link
"Of course Janis Joplin/Big Brother did "Piece of My Heart" (Erma Franklin) which became a hit + part of the classic rock canon, so I guess it's disqualified"
no that's exactly the sort of thing i'm thinking of, i never heard the erma franklin version. a lot of the soul covers i _know_ them from oldies radio, but someone like garnet mimms, nah
the velvets were unique for the era in that they didn't _do_ covers, there's a recording of them doing "green onions" on the andy warhol tapes i think but that's about it.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 July 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
It's interesting that Jerry Ragovoy seems to be involved with many of these songs as a songwriter. He wrote or cowrote the Garnet Mimms songs and "Stop" by Howard Tate and "Piece of My Heart."
His Wikipedia entry lists several other compositions of his that fit the original question.
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
Yes, that is interesting. Wonder if he and Rudy Clark ever crossed paths. #onethread
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
XP He played piano on the James Gang's version of "Stop" too.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Rudy Clark, the Dead also did "Good Lovin'" (originally by the Olympics and popularized by the (Young) Rascals).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Ha!--The Olympics' "Good Lovin'" (which had different lyrics from the actual original by Lemme B. Good) was produced by Ragovoy!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Paul Butterfield (not the heaviest) did "Get Out of My Life, Woman"
Also covered by Iron Butterfly on Heavy.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 July 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
(which is also not the heaviest)
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 July 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Remembering too that they also did a straight vocal version of Gene Chandler's Curtis Mayfield-penned "Man's Temptation" on that same album.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
...and speaking of Curtis, Vanilla Fudge did "People Get Ready" and later on Beck Bogert & Appice addressed "I'm So Proud".
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link