Don Covay S/D

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"I Don't Know What You've Got (But it's Got Me)." Little Richard.

didn't Covay sing on and co-write? So, so great. SO GREAT


yeah, he did. one of the greatest Little Richard songs!

edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Don and the Goodtimes - Turn On / Make It (Wand)
- 2 early and great raw instrumental sides

Don Covay - I Was Checking Out, She Was Checking In / Money (That's What I Want) (Mercury)
- deep soul A, fuzzed out Barrett Strong cover on flip...

michael2 (michael2), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I got the "It's better to have" album, and sad to say, that track is tons better than anything else on it.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

So, in "I Was Checkin' Out", at the end, when Don sees that the motel gave his wife and her paramour the same room that he just checked out of with his extra-curricular 'tang, REMIND TO NEVER STAY THERE.

Also, "Pinch Hitter" is gorgeous.

Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

she was with another dude.

edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

He has the happiest sounding guitar.

Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Good call.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

mercy/see saw 2nded or 3rded.

blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

there was a VA thing of Covay songs a while back--with Iggy and Bobby Womack, I believe the odious Jon Tiven had something to do with it. I should be nice, but can't, and have to say I saw Tiven, who fucked up a Wilson Pickett album a few years back, and his wife back up this soul singer guy in Nashville who opened for the Zombies (Steve Cropper sat in, too, which was cool). But my friends and I laughed and snickered at Tiven and his lame guitar-playing...I know, not nice, but every once in a while I'm entitled. Anyway, whatever that album was, it sucked.

I hear Don's in bad health these days.

edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

how this has gone on without any mention made of his House of Blue Lights record with John Hammond (reissued by sepia-tone) is absurd. great ruff garage cuffs with a killer seven minute blues dirge with sitar and hammond (the organ and the man). you can also hear him barking like a dog and acting like sly stone.

Beta (abeta), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

http://oregonmusicnews.com/2015/02/02/don-covay-soul-singer-songwriter-dead-76/

He had been in ill health for awhile after a stroke. No larger outlets are reporting this yet. Reports of the death have also been on facebook

curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link

Oh, no. RIP :( Have I told you my Don Covay story?

Sweet Melissus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 February 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link

Don't think so

curmudgeon, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link

have i posted this one before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWr3rgdlOpE

it's from one of his neglected(?) 1970s albums, and is one of the best soul ballads he or anyone else recorded IMO.

I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link

wow. that is sweet.

campreverb, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link

yeah, covay was one of those guys who navigated a bunch of changes in black music much more successfully (aesthetically if not always commercially) than a lot of his contemporaries.

I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link

nine years pass...

Picked up the Mercy Mercy comp on Razor and Tie for a couple of bucks the other day. That's some good late afternoon grooves.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 23:22 (one month ago) link

have i posted this one before?

it's from one of his neglected(?) 1970s albums, and is one of the best soul ballads he or anyone else recorded IMO.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:25 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

wonder what this was

budo jeru, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 23:27 (one month ago) link

Super Dude is a great album

Mule, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link

Super Dude is a great album

Mule, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link

So good I said it twice

Mule, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 23:37 (one month ago) link

Picked up the Mercy Mercy comp on Razor and Tie for a couple of bucks the other day. That's some good late afternoon grooves.

Great find. That's the best CD you can get on Covay.

birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 01:59 (one month ago) link

xp to me

for some reason it doesn't show up for me on my computer, but i could see on my phone that the song amateurist shared was "leave him" from the "super dude" LP (just in case the video link ever goes away)

budo jeru, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 17:08 (one month ago) link


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