December 19, 2004: The Annual Winter Soul-stice
"45 RPM December" continues with my twice-yearly tradition of playing nothing but soul singles to celebrate the solstices. (Note: This program started late, so it is only 90 minutes long. Thanks to Bill Kelly for filling in during the first half hour.)
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For Gousters and Fezneckys Only
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Bobby Patterson and the Mustangs
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Soul Is Our Music
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Jetstar
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Sharpees
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Do the 45
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One-Derful
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Eddie Holland
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Just a Few More Days
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Motown
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Deon Jackson
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Love Makes the World Go Round
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Carla
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Entertainers IV
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Temptation Walk
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Dore
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Accents
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New Girl
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M-Pac!
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Volcanos
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Storm Warning
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Arctic
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The Volcanos went on to become the Trammps of "Disco Inferno" fame.
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Sock It to 'Em, JB (All songs in this set are James Brown Productions)
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Bill Pinkney
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Don't Call Me
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Fontana
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James Crawford
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If You Don't Work You Can't Eat
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Mercury
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Not the same artist as James "Sugar Boy" Crawford
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Bobby Byrd
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I Know You Got Soul
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King
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Lyn Collins
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Think (About It)
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People
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Maceo and the Macks
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Parrty Part 1
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People
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James Brown
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James Brown's Boo-Ga-Loo
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Smash
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On which Mr. Dynamite plays the Hammond organ
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Music to Inspire a Breakout at a Fat Farm (For Monica)
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Sugarcane Harris
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A Little Soul Food
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Epic
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Andre Williams & His Orch.
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Rib Tip's Part 1
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Avin
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[sic]
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Clifford Curry
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Good Humor Man
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Elf
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Joe Tex
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If Sugar Was as Sweet as You
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Dial
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I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
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Jerry Blavat and the "Yon Teenagers"
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Discophonic Walk
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Favor
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The legendary Philadelphia DJ also known as "the Geator With the Heater"
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Shangri-Las
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Right Now and Not Later
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Red Bird
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Co-produced by former Motown staffer Robert Bateman
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Bobby Fuller Four
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The Magic Touch
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Mustang
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Production help and drums supplied by future Seventies soulman Barry White
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Tom Jones
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Stop Breaking My Heart
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Parrot
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Billy Lee Riley
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Happy Man
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Atlantic
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A soul side from the onetime Sun Records rockabilly artist
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I'm White, I'm Alright (More blue-eyed soul)
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Mickey Lee Lane
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Hey Sah-Lo-Ney
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Swan
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Johnny Daye
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Good Time
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Jomada
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Wayne Cochran
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Let Me Come With You Pt. 1
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King
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Soul Heaven, Soul Hell or Soul Hoboken!
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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Come Spy With Me
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Tamla
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The title song from the 1967 spy caper, starring Troy Donahue
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Roy "C"
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Shotgun Wedding
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Black Hawk
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Don Covay and the Goodtimers
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See About Me
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Columbia
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Oscar Toney, Jr.
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For Your Precious Love
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Bell
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Dixie Drifter
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Soul Heaven
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Roulette
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a.k.a. Enoch Hawthorne Gregory, who was a DJ on influential New York soul station WWRL
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BOX SCORE Number of songs: 30 Percentage of songs from my personal collection: 100% Ratio of songs with sung vocals to instrumental songs (instrumental includes spoken or chanted vocals): 25:5 Ratio of all songs with a vocal component that contain solely male vocals to solely female vocals: 27:2 Language percentages: English 100% Format breakdown: 7-inch vinyl all Longest song: 3:25 Shortest song: 1:47 Artists by continent (defined by origin of artist, not where song was recorded): North America 29; South America 0; Europe 1; Asia 0; Africa 0; Australia/Oceania 0 Percentage of songs played that were produced by James Brown: 20% Percentage of songs played that have the word "soul" in the title: 13% Percentage of songs played that make allusions to other soul songs or artists: 13% Number of songs played that were performed by people who are primarily DJs: 2 Number of artists played whom i have seen perform live: 4 Number of artists played whom i have met: 5 Number of those i've met whom i've also seen perform: 1
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