Favoriting The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from December 17, 2019 Favoriting

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Twenty years of dusty fingers, frayed cuticles, & upper respiratory infections — from record digging and DJing around the globe — coalesces into a 2-hour journey through Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Latin, Rock & Roll, and all points in between. Your speakers will be head-nodding, toe-tapping & even two-stepping to this vintage 45rpm party in no time. Hear favorite songs you didn't know were your favorites, aural treats & record-world problems from the vinyl side of life.

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Favoriting December 17, 2019

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Artist Track Label Format Approx. start time
Bobby Goodwin & The Chontels  I Don't Want To Cry   Favoriting Damon Acetate  7"  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
OV Wright  Working Your Game   Favoriting Back Beat  7"  0:03:55 (Pop-up)
Bobby Goodwin & The Chontels  Cry   Favoriting Damon Acetate  7"  0:06:35 (Pop-up)
Cicero Blake  Sad Feeling   Favoriting Renee  7"  0:08:39 (Pop-up)
Dick Dunkirk & The Strangers  You Can't Lie To A Liar   Favoriting Soma  7"  0:10:57 (Pop-up)
Fantastic Johnny C  Boogaloo Down Broadway   Favoriting Phil-L.A. of Soul  7"  0:17:57 (Pop-up)
Bobby Harris  More Of The Jerk   Favoriting Atlantic  7"  0:20:42 (Pop-up)
The People's Choice  I Likes To Do It   Favoriting Phil-L.A. of Soul  7"  0:23:50 (Pop-up)
Charles Mann  Only Sometime   Favoriting Lanor  7"  0:25:52 (Pop-up)
Charles Mann  I've Got Dreams To Remember   Favoriting Lanor  7"  0:27:59 (Pop-up)
Warner Mack  Roc-A-Chicka   Favoriting Decca  7"  0:36:34 (Pop-up)
Del Shannon  Handy Man   Favoriting Amy  7"  0:38:28 (Pop-up)
? & The Mysterians  96 Tears   Favoriting Cameo  7"  0:40:37 (Pop-up)
Charles Page & The Rockin' Aces  Baby You Been To School   Favoriting Goldband  7"  0:43:10 (Pop-up)
Shirley Bergeron  French Rocking Boogie   Favoriting Lanor  7"  0:45:18 (Pop-up)
Champagne Brothers  It's Raining   Favoriting Typhoon  7"  0:51:10 (Pop-up)
Al "TNT" Braggs  An Angel (You Belong To Me)   Favoriting Peacock  7"  0:53:17 (Pop-up)
Little Johnny Taylor  What You Need Is A Ball   Favoriting Galaxy  7"  0:55:38 (Pop-up)
Ray Charles  The Train   Favoriting ABC  7"  0:58:04 (Pop-up)
OV Wright  I'll Take Care Of You   Favoriting Back Beat  7"  1:01:09 (Pop-up)
Bill Brandon  Whatever I Am, I'm Yours   Favoriting Moonsong  7"  1:07:37 (Pop-up)
A Brother's Guiding Light  Getting Together   Favoriting Mercury  7"  1:10:55 (Pop-up)
Jerry Butler  Moody Woman   Favoriting Mercury  7"  1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Willie Hightower  Walk A Mile In My Shoes   Favoriting Fame  7"  1:15:40 (Pop-up)
Lou Donaldson  Who's Making Love   Favoriting Blue Note  7"  1:18:58 (Pop-up)
Ann Peebles  Trouble, Heartaches & Sadness   Favoriting Hi  7"  1:25:16 (Pop-up)
Jimmy McGriff  The Worm   Favoriting Solid State  7"  1:29:10 (Pop-up)
Candi Staton  I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')   Favoriting Fame  7"  1:31:41 (Pop-up)
Gene Chandler  Just Be True   Favoriting Constellation  7"  1:34:17 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bland  Wouldn't You Rather Have Me?   Favoriting Duke  7"  1:36:56 (Pop-up)
Jesse Boone & The Astros  No Particular One   Favoriting Sunburst  7"  1:43:24 (Pop-up)
Junior Parker  These Kind Of Blues   Favoriting Duke  7"  1:47:40 (Pop-up)
Albert King  The Hunter   Favoriting Atlantic  7"  1:48:45 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bland  Honey Child   Favoriting Duke  7"  1:51:18 (Pop-up)
Hank Ballard  How You Gonna Get Respect   Favoriting King  7"  1:53:31 (Pop-up)
Alfonso Ramos  La Mentira   Favoriting Valmon  7"  1:58:08 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Kris. I’m guessing you’ll be out next week as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Matt from New Orleans:

The stream was playing Monte Carlo by the French Connection. A solid tune.
Avatar 🥁 10:04pm
Kris Holmes:

Hi Matt, I'm back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
chresti:

Hello to the long ways at home!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I can hear that. I meant on Christmas Eve.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Chresti
Avatar 🥁 10:06pm
Kris Holmes:

Nah, I'll be here, Christmas is canceled this year
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
ParUbi:

Hey guys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I probably will as well. I’ll be staying at my parents and we’re Jewish so no Christmas for us and bars are sad on Christmas I find.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Matt from New Orleans:

It’s Hanukkah next week too so we’re going to my cousin’s house on Christmas Day for a latke party. My cousins are all nice people but they’re so boring.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Little Danny:

Hey Kris, good to have you back, mate
Avatar 🥁 10:12pm
Kris Holmes:

Hi Dan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Hi Danny and ParUbi.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Little Danny:

Good sir Matt
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Almost got you a new listener tonight Kris but he didn’t sleep well last night so he went to sleep earlier. He’s an old friend of Larry, Randy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
ParUbi:

I'm agnostic, so I've always wanted to have a solstice celebration in the dark of night with wailing and the clashing of stones against unknown surfaces
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Franco Twinkie:

Kris, My mom wants to come over on Christmas, which is great, just as long as I don't have to go get her and take her back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I would call my Jewishness cultural rather than religious.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Franco you clearly know that’s the case already
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

Well no, Matt I don't. But if I keep saying it. ....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
ParUbi:

How often does she need that ride?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I’m just messing with you but from the way you worded it it’s clearly happened more than once.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Franco Twinkie:

ParUbi, anytime she wants to come over.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
chresti:

planning to do that starting Saturday@ParUbi -soulstice
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I like his album. He does a solid Barefootin’
Avatar 🥁 10:24pm
Kris Holmes:

i have the LP but haven't played it in years!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
ParUbi:

The truth is in the shadows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Worth a listen since it has been so long
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Little Danny:

Man so many 45s on Atlantic that I still don't know. That was very good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
chresti:

Nice drums on More of the Jerk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Danny do you have the Atlantic R&B box set?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Little Danny:

Nope! Is it comprehensive?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Matt from New Orleans:

It’s fantastic 8 CDs. Really nice booklet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Matt from New Orleans:

www.allmusic.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Matt from New Orleans:

That’s the allmusic listing for it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Little Danny:

Oh now I know what you're talking about. Great stuff, but not the hyper-obscurities that I fetishize!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Fair enough
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Matt from New Orleans:

It’s really hard to cover an Otis song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Matt from New Orleans:

You should add that to discogs Kris
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I’m an idiot. I was looking at the wrong Mr Mann.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Little Danny:

Massive luv to you and Misa my dude
Avatar 🥁 10:39pm
Kris Holmes:

Dude, it SUCKS, worst birthday EVER :(
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Anita Kerr on backing vocals. Seems out here wheel house.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Matt from New Orleans:

My birthday is in 2.5 weeks and the date just popped up on top of the keyboard just in case I forgot it when I typed birthday
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Little Danny:

@Kris: I can really, really imagine
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Little Danny:

"96 Tears" is one of a few select dozen tracks that always always sound great to me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I was waiting for the accordion breakdown
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I saw him at Jazz Fest in my youth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Little Danny:

Accordion in the context of '50s R&B/rock 'n' roll is always welcomed here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Shirley Bergeron that is. I went to Jazz Fest with my parents at some point in the 80s and I remember hearing that song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Little Danny:

Did you grow up in the New Orleans area, Matt?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Nope. In NY. I had cousins down here that we would visit from time to time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Matt from New Orleans:

They left after Katrina and moved to Chicago.
  10:57pm
Doug Schulkind:

Wish I could position a 500-pound drummer at your front door, Kris. Ready to lay knuckles on knuckleheads.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Matt from New Orleans:

They held onto their house which sustained no damage for years before finally selling it but wouldn’t let me live there. I don’t talk to them any longer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Matt from New Orleans:

They didn’t rent it. It just sat empty and they tried a few times to get me to check on it but got the hint eventually and stopped calling me.
Avatar 🥁 11:01pm
Kris Holmes:

Doug, for real!!! Ugh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Little Danny:

One of my all-time Ray Charles tracks.

@Kris: Do I remember you playing a Spanish-language version at some point?
Avatar 🥁 11:02pm
Kris Holmes:

Yes "El Tren"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Little Danny:

Do you know Bobby Bland's (also-great) version of this, Kris? It's even darker sounding...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Are you going to the Alamo City Soul club reunion Kris?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Not even sure how that even got on my radar?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Kris, found it in yer playlists. Carlos Guzman.
Avatar 🥁 11:05pm
Kris Holmes:

Dan, yeah, I wish the OV was better mixed.
Matt, perhaps, probably, maybe pop my head in
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Little Danny:

I didn't think I'd appreciated how great Braggs's voice is
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Little Danny:

The Tall Hair Club for Men™: suerecordsuk.files.wordpress.com...
Avatar 🥁 11:11pm
Kris Holmes:

that's one of them, i wanna say there's another that's even higher?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I like his tune self preservation
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Matt from New Orleans:

c8.alamy.com...
Avatar 🥁 11:14pm
Kris Holmes:

his eyebrow game is pretty intense too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Little Danny:

Sweet '70s northern sound on "Getting Together." Love it, totally new to me I think
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Getting together is a good one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Agreed. Forgot about that Kris.
Avatar 🥁 11:29pm
Kris Holmes:

Man, 7 people favorited this song on a show called The Modern World with Trouble
Avatar 🥁 11:30pm
Kris Holmes:

Which also leads to the musing that DJs that have the same name as other DJs is hellishly confusing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
JtotheK:

Jimmy McGriff, nice one! Hi Kris, hope your week is improving. Seasonal Greeting, everyone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
JtotheK:

b/w - Trouble spins some jams on her Modern World program! And her show puts me onto mellow ambient music all the time, too.
Avatar 🥁 11:33pm
Kris Holmes:

Jason, we got your Xmas card thank you & yes, this week has been better (although being worse would be a tough call)
Avatar 🥁 11:33pm
Kris Holmes:

wait, this Trouble is a girl? That's even more confusing!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
JtotheK:

here's a show she did last January - a lot of really nice 45s...
wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Matt from New Orleans:

That was a quality show
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
JtotheK:

Someday I hope to find a copy of Gene Chandler 'Mr Big Shot' .
Avatar 🥁 11:38pm
Kris Holmes:

oh yeah some classic latin soul 45s in there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I’m a shoes man myself, not really, like the song but overplayed on the northern scene
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
JtotheK:

Yeah area shop gets Gene Chandler 45s in ALL THE TIME and I've picked up multiple copies of "I Can Take Care of Myself" over the years but never seen Mr Big Shot. Except for a cheap reissue, which I bought. Oh and his record You Threw A Lucky Punch is a nice answer record, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Clearly you’re not as lucky as the guy with two NM copies for sale for $400 on discogs
Avatar 🥁 11:47pm
Kris Holmes:

Matt, yeah Shoes is kind of rinsed, I don't mind it but don't feel the need to reach for it.
Jason: Gene Chandler on those pre-Mercury labels is never bad
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Little Danny:

Bland's read of Houston classic "Honey Child" is still my fave disc by him
Avatar 🥁 11:50pm
Kris Holmes:

LOL $400 is about $200 more than it's worth?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
JtotheK:

@Matt - both copies are from Craig!
@Dan - Honey Child is a fave of mine, too...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Little Danny:

Now I'm thinking Bland's version is actually the first.

Hi Jason! There are some very good versions of it by the Sunglows and white boy Johnny Williams, too
Avatar 🥁 11:52pm
Kris Holmes:

Just picked up an extra Honey Child the other week!!!! So here it comes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Little Danny:

Well hey now there's a real DJ for ya! Thanks mate, never tire of this 'un
Avatar 🥁 11:54pm
Kris Holmes:

Bland is the original. Sunglows is indeed great. Local San Antonio group Eddie & The Valiants currently do a great version live too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Thanks Kris. Enjoyed the tunes. Hope things keep getting better. Probably be here next week. Have a great night everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Little Danny:

Good callback to prior process conversation!
Avatar 🥁 11:56pm
Kris Holmes:

Ha, indeed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Kris, superb show. Got an older show of yers cued up to take me through the next few hours
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
chresti:

Thanks Kris!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
JtotheK:

thanks for the tunes, Kris - cheers everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:27am
WR:

Wow! Super blue great show! This one will be on repeat a few times.
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