WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 01/23/15

Listener comments!

8:41am annie:

wow, great gif. i wonder what the play is?

8:45am Doug Schulkind:

@annie
Play? What play?! That's the Give the Drummer Radio staff meeting from yesterday morning!

8:51am holland oats:

yoink
scuppr.tumblr.com
who is this guy? is he a thing?

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8:52am listener james from westwood:

The Cold King Rises, GTDR Edition

8:53am Doug Schulkind:

Use it in good health, Mr. Scupper! (That fellow is Charanjit Singh. He is definitely a thing.)

@Listener James
Things'll get overheated presently!

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8:57am listener james from westwood:

All righty, ears on (Duane's archive will have to wait until 3 pm!). How do all! Hope northeasterners are ready for some snow!

8:59am Mr C:

The Drummer stands on the verge of gettin it on...

9:01am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

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9:02am duke:

Those hippies sure know how to have fun.

9:02am Doug Schulkind:

Mr. C is up bright and early! I'll try to play some good teethbrushing music. Or maybe mind-flossing music.

9:03am Doug Schulkind:

Hello ndbob! Here's the hookah, hippie duke!

9:03am annie:

wonderful just got breakfast finished cooking.. sitting down to the opening theme! hurrah!

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9:04am Brian in UK:

A Midsummer Nights Rogering. Puck off, face off. Bugger off.

9:04am Uncle Michael:

Is it time to get on down?

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9:05am Brian in UK:

Michael, go to your room at once.

9:05am Uncle Michael:

Ok, see you all in the next room!

9:06am Gary:

Yay!

9:08am dnikluhcS guoD:

I read your comment backwards, Gary.

9:09am Shaun:

It's Friday. Drop the hammer, son, get stoned and have a disco. (Overheard - not by me - in Liverpool).

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

Brian in UK and Shaun in UK — you guys are OK!

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9:11am Brian in UK:

Hey Shaun, are you smiling?

9:13am Shaun:

On the inside, Brian. Afternoon/Morning Doug and BitUK.

9:15am Doug Schulkind:

Uncle Michael, it's time to get up. You've got to get down!

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9:15am Brian in UK:

Good start, Shaun.

I like brass as sharp as the crease in your kecks.

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

Better to have the brass kick in than get a kick in the brass. I've always said.

9:20am Doug Schulkind:

Your sonero here with the All Stars was Chivirico Dávila.

9:21am still b/p:

This is a happy Reveille! Buenos dias!

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9:21am Brian in UK:

Doug, I was just about to ask that question. Sounds familiar from Fania.

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

Stay happy, Amigo!

@Brian in UK
From the Fania extended family. The outfit that currently owns the Fania catalog reissued this record as "Te Invita."

9:23am ?:

Good morning all. Checking in before i go to work.

9:24am Marcury:

opps forgot my name above

9:24am Doug Schulkind:

Anyone out there speak Euskara? This song is from the land of the Basque.

Hey Marcury!!

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9:30am Brian in UK:

I think the 'x' is soft but thereagain......

9:31am Holly in NC:

Good Morning!

9:33am Rich in Washington:

Morning, Doug!
Morning, co-Drummerites!

9:33am Doug Schulkind:

Gooder now that you're here, Holly in NC.

9:33am Doug Schulkind:

Did he just sing, "My pants were filled with sprinkle" ???!!!

9:35am Alex In Illinois:

One time when I went to the Taste of Chicago, I spent some time enjoying music of the Mariachi bands performing on the Sears employee stage. There were several Mariachi bands. I am not sure if every member of each band had to be a Sears employee. There was at least one all-female Mariachi band.

9:35am Rich in Washington:

It sure sounded like it!

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9:36am βrian:

Good Morning. We're socked in on the isthmus. Please send audio aid.

9:37am Doug Schulkind:

@Alex in Illinois
Chicago has always had a much larger Mexican community that we had back in New York. There was virtually no mariachi in NYC. Except one lonely band that played on the subway.

9:39am Doug Schulkind:

@Rich in Washington
Yeah. Much clearer the second time!

@βrian
I'll send Balto with medicine for your ears!

9:41am chas.:

Late joining the party. That gif is from Meredith Monk's movie, Book of Days. (Maybe that's already been said.) It's fantastic.
www.youtube.com...

9:42am Rich in Washington:

That's crazy steel guitar on this track!

9:44am Doug Schulkind:

@Rich in Washington
I wonder if the steel player was the great Ralph Mooney. I wonder if Ralph Mooney was related to Bob!

9:44am Alex In Illinois:

Sears has employed a lot of Mexican Americans for a while, and in some stores, there are Polish-speaking sales people too. In the last 15 years, there have been Russian-speaking sales people too. So I wonder if he next time I find a Sears employee stage at a festival, if there might be Russian or Polish bands too.

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

@chas.
Thanks for unlocking that mystery! I adore Meredith Monk (whose music can be heard in the film The Big Lebowski!)

9:46am ndbob:

I saw Meredith Monk in Seattle in 2005

9:47am still b/p:

Just now followed earlier tumblr link from holland oats -- did ya scroll further down there for the great cheery pic of Janet and Tony and dumbbells and socks? Interwebs just gives and gives.

9:48am chromaphone:

Mornin Doug. Diggin all the slippery slidin' this set.

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
I did NOT scroll down. I SHALL scroll down.

Welcome aboard, chromaphone!

@ndob
Did you see Meredith in North Dakota?!?

9:51am Alex In Illinois:

Back to Chicago Mariachi Bands: Many do not play often at public venues and public events, but most often play at private parties I think some are family bands that seldom play professionally.

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9:57am listener james from westwood:

We've got clear blue pre-storm skies in northern NJ. Supposed to be ugly tomorrow ... ice and snow. A friend is trying to muster troops for a social gathering tomorrow but I think I'll stick home and copyedit while making chili.

10:01am Mr C:

Most of South Philly is "little Italy"..not that little. Real question: do you preprogram all your show, or play by ear some. depending. Love this R. Flames btw

10:01am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James
Usually, it's chili TODAY, hot tamale.

10:02am ?:

Righteous Flames reming me of the Congos

10:04am Doug Schulkind:

@?
The Congos are most swoonworthy.

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10:04am Brian in UK:

I want to dubbed by you.

10:04am d¢ pät:

^ I agree with what all those dudes said.

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr. C
I pre-program piles of stuff that I pull from semi-spontaneously.

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10:05am listener james from westwood:

I'm actually getting Mexican food tonight w/ the host for Saturday, so I may be able to time-travel and make tamale, today!

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

@d¢ pät
Ni¢e to $ee you!

10:06am Lewis:

pretty cool - the bass here is making something on my desk rattle...

10:06am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
I dub you, too.

@Lewis
My plan is working. It's WORKING!!

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

[Ed. note: The Righteous Flames was Winston Jarrett's first group.]

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

Our next selection is NOT named for a cleaning product.

10:08am Mr C:

Baddest show on radio..no doubt..

10:09am d¢ pät:

There isn't much like a bass guit recorded in Jamaica. I've tried to capture that sound on many occasions.. no dice.

10:11am Doug Schulkind:

Badness is my bidness (cough)

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

Here's a number for all you coconut heads out there. Because you're special.

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

This is not the same "Memories" as the song by Egbert Van Alstyne from 1915. Though I understand your confusion.

10:26am Holly in NC:

Thank you, Doug - gotta run - so glad I could listen for a bit!
Have a great weekend, everyone.

Yesterday I was snuggling with a wee. wee little terrier mix, as I've done many times before, and somehow I must have threatened her as she nipped my nose. No harm no foul, she was absolutely mortified at her bad behavior and we are still good buddies but I now have to go out and face the non-dog world with 2 wee matching scabs bridging my nose. Not my best look ;-)

10:27am d¢ pät:

great set.

10:28am d¢ pät:

did we address what Doug's GIF is from yet?

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10:35am βrian:

Dexter is always right!

10:36am Doug Schulkind:

@Holly in NC
Have a gorgeous rest of the day!

@d¢ pät
Yes. Listener chas. revealed that it is from a Meredith Monk film, Book of Days. If you scroll up and find his comment, there is a YouTube link.

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

Is it true that Dexter Gordon recently played a serial killer on teevee? I'm just kidding. Haha.

10:40am d¢ pät:

ok, thanks--sorry for the lazy fingers...

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10:41am listener james from westwood:

@Holly: Ouch! Hope she's a bit kinder to the old schnozz during future snuggles.

10:41am Hugo:

Dexter Gordon in Paris is a fine thing. But Dexter Gordon in Voss is not a bad thing, either, which is where I saw him sometime in the late 70s. Fine set, the last one, but I would say that, wouldn't I?

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

Lazy Fingers was the name of my failed massage parlor.

Hey Hugo! I was just talking about you!

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10:46am Brian in UK:

I bought a copy of Dexter's record a while back along with JC's Copenhagen concert from Honest Jon's. Honest guv.

How do, Hugo?

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10:48am Brian in UK:

It was round three thirty in the afternoon.

10:51am still b/p:

Bad news: I missed the last 15-20 minutes.
Good news: It was because I was hearing the big joy report from a friend who took my old, worn unplayable banjolele -- an antique-shop whim acquisition that only ever sat silently a few years in a closet -- and had it fixed/restored/resurrected. I will hear its music soon. She's thrilled. "And if thy sister hath not lazy fingers and wanteth a banjolele, ye shall give it."

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10:52am Brian in UK:

@still b/p fol de rol. gif accredited.

10:53am Doug Schulkind:

Sing "Banjolele" to the heavens. Verily!

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10:56am Brian in UK:

It is minus outside (I can hear Hugo sniggering) got to walk doggo, then hot chocolate and crumpets.

10:57am Dean:

I can hear Steve Lacy even though he isn't there.

10:57am Hugo:

Fine here, Brian, but weather's miserable. We get yours about a day later. Doug, I kinda noticed. Had a trip to Lisbon with the whole family just before Xmas. Fascinating place.

Speaking of records, just discovered Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach - Money Jungle. Oooh ... Never too late, I guess. One for a future programme, perhaps. There's a reworking of that one by Terri Lyne Carrington from 2013. Missed her concert here last summer, unfortunately.

10:58am still b/p:

If you have two dogs, or goats or snakes, they should be named Hot Chocolate and Crumpet.

10:58am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
Money Jungle is one of greatest sessions ever. Hard to imagine how Mingus, normally so irrepressible, held it together in the presence of his great hero Ellington.

11:02am d¢ pät:

Well put Doug, but there are many instances of Charlie busting out on that album--I think it's the best example of his bass playing style/talent.

11:05am Rob in SAV:

Nice talkover track!

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11:05am duke:

Money Jungle is a great album. I don't agree with Miles: "Max and Mingus can play together, by themselves. Mingus is a hell of a bass player, and Max is a hell of a drummer. But Duke can't play with them, and they can't play with Duke."

11:07am Gary:

Give the Drummer strummin'!

11:08am Doug Schulkind:

Give the Drummer Crumpets (see above).

@Rob in SAV
Oh boy oh boy! Every time I reach for one of your amazing compilations, it makes me so happy. Thank you!

11:09am Doug Schulkind:

How weird is it that as I play this track from Malawi, a Tweet just popped up in my feed showing a photo of flooding in Malawi? I'll answer that: Very weird.

11:15am Webhamster Henry:

Give the balafoner some!

11:15am Hugo:

Reggae is quite popular in Malawi so I came away with half dozen cassettes when I was there. Cassettes were decidedly cheaper than cds then. Imagine sitting in the hotel bar and hearing Burning Spear!

11:17am Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
I'm just balafoning it in, like always.

@Hugo
I would very much like to be sitting in a hotel bar in Malawi with you listening to Burning Spear. Drinks are on me.

11:18am Doug Schulkind:

With the amount Target is paying me to be a stockboy, it would take me about twelve years to be able to afford such a trip.

11:18am Uncle Michael:

I'm sleepy and grumpy. Which dwarves are you?

11:19am Uncle Michael:

gifs need a bpm setting

11:20am Hugo:

I was being eyed by a member of the opposite sex looking for customers. I succesfully resisted. Ah well ...

11:22am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
You have to be careful with opposite sex workers.

11:23am Hugo:

(groan)

11:24am Gary:

Super Love for this set

11:24am Konin:

I always oppose to sex workers.

11:25am still b/p:

A low dirty pun was just wisely put aside.

11:27am Doug Schulkind:

Well hello there, Konin!

11:27am Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Are you saying I should try to work a track by Super Love into this sequence? Because I probably could if you give me a minute.

11:28am Konin:

Hi Doug, happy to be here! Hello, all!

11:29am Doug Schulkind:

@Konin
Is your avatar a rabbit leapfrogging a load of bread?!

11:30am Konin:

Lam's bread! Not sure what I'm froggin doin there.

11:31am Carmichael:

Hi Doug and Friday people.

11:32am Gary:

@Doug, I wouldn't say no!

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11:32am Artie Haywire:

Happy times indeed.

11:33am Doug Schulkind:

Well leapfrog on in here and grab some bread, Artie Haywire!

11:33am still b/p:

re: avatar
They say he came to life one day...
2.bp.blogspot.com...

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11:34am Artie Haywire:

Ribbit, (burp)

11:35am Doug Schulkind:

@still b/p
Odessa is west Texas, yes? Check out my talkover music next.

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11:37am Brian in UK:

Imagine sitting in a hotel bar in Malawi and Burning Spear walks in. Saw him in a service station near Birmingham once. Had to do a double take.

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11:37am duke:

Doug needs to get a MacArthur grant or something so he can keep playing stuff for us all day.

11:37am Konin:

That's a hare!? Right? Irony wants that in real life I'm a hare...Shouldn't be talking about this.

11:38am Carmichael:

If the rabbit is with a wizard named Tim, then RUN AWAY!!!

11:39am Dean:

"Burning Spear walks into a bar..."

11:39am Konin:

Waltz away...

11:41am Mr C:

Manhattans: Carnival Records

11:41am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
If I got a general MacArthur grant, would that make me General Douglas MacArthur?

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Now if you want to hear a really good radio show, stay tuned for Uncle Michael and Hinky Dinky Time, next on the Drummer Stream: wfmu.org...

11:43am Dean:

Either that or General Ulysses Schulkind Grant.

11:43am still b/p:

Yeah, Odessa, west Texas, Permian Basin. I spent a few years there, and even lived just a few blocks from the World's Largest Jackrabbit. Extra-unusual news comes out of the Odessa-Midland area from time to to time, from Jessica in the well years ago to the prison bus last week that went off the interstate and onto the railroad tracks and, yes, got hit by a train.

11:43am Andy S.:

Re: The Manhattans. Sad to note that two founding members of this great group passed on last month. Edward "Sonny" Bivins sang on every Manhattans hit since the group's inception, and wrote many of their hit songs; he died 12/3/2014 at age 78. Winfred "Blue" Lovett, the group's original bass singer and also a contributing songwriter, died 12/9/2014, at the age of 74.

11:44am Lewis:

OK - this is really weird!

11:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Lewis
Would you like to discuss it?

Thanks, Andy "Encyclopedia Britannica" S!

11:46am Uncle Michael:

Oh crap...I just looked out the window and I can see my bidness out in the street!

11:47am Hugo:

If any of you should make it to Nairobi, this is the place to go to (or order from):

www.melodica.co.ke

I mostly got cassettes while I was there, but pretty good selection of cds, too. Run by a guy from Jemen!

11:48am still b/p:

Uncle's into runnin' round
Hangin' with the crowd
Putting his business in the street
Talkin' out loud

11:48am Hugo:

Or Yemen in English.

11:50am Carmichael:

Cassettes were the thing when I was in Saudi Arabia. I brought back boxes of them.

11:50am Uncle Michael:

Please join me in the next room at the top of the hour. The sofa cushions are all plumped.

www.wfmu.org...

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

@Carmichael
I am sorry for your loss. (King Abdullah, I mean.)

11:54am Mr C:

Little Ben: Great find

11:54am Carmichael:

Even though he is now also in a box, I'm not bringing HIM back!

11:55am Shaun:

Always love the emoash soul set. Really great one today, Doug.

11:55am Gary:

Groovy organ

11:56am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:57am Uncle Michael:

Thank you for getting me through my morning, Doug.

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

@Mr. C
How old was Ben in 1968?

@Uncle Michael
You know music like nobody's bidness.

11:58am Uncle Michael:

Nice Walker Brothers version of this too, if memory serves.

11:58am Mr C:

My ship just left..without me Doug!

11:58am Konin:

Good show, Doug! Those cushions do look nice, Uncle!

11:59am ndbob:

@UM for sure

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11:59am listener james from westwood:

Distracted for the last 1/2 hour b/c I caught the author whose book I'm editing boosting shit from Wikipedia. Argh. Sternly but diplomatically worded queries to C&D to follow.
Many thanks for reducing my plagiarism-induced blood pressure spike w fine fine music, Doug!

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11:59am Brian in UK:

@Carmichael were they Thomsons cassettes?

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

You gals and guys are better than the best! Thanks for hanging with me!

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12:00pm bobdc:

Great show again, Doug!

12:00pm tikk:

never heard that Walter Jackson song, killed me Doug. Thx for another great show!

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12:00pm duke:

Thanks Doug

12:01pm 12539:

Thanks, Doug!

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12:01pm Brian in UK:

Merci beaucoup, Boss.

12:01pm Rob in SAV:

Great show Doug!

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

That was an absurd amount of fun. Let's do it again. And again. And...

12:03pm Doug Schulkind:

Hey, bobdc!

12:03pm Doug Schulkind:

And 12539! I didn't see you dancing in the corner!

9:08pm Van in DC:

Oh. High.

9:10pm Van in DC:

Stay safe & warm up there.

9:16pm Doug Schulkind:

You be safe and warm, too, Van in DC! I think Pittsburgh is just going to get a glancing blow. It's you folks on the coast I'm worried about.

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán	El Cihualteco	Their First Recordings 1937-1947 (Arhoolie )
Gina Martin	Obatalá	Santero, Volume 2 (Panart )
Alegre All-Stars	Agúsese Usted	Perdido (Alegre 1977)
Los Pinkys	Pa' Qué Me Sirve la Vida	Esta Pasión (Rounder 1995)
Fermin Muguruza (with Manu Chao)	Maputxe	Brigadistak Sound System (Esan Ozenki 1999)

Rex Zario	First Year Blues	b/w Two Timin' Baby (Skyrocket )
Ted Shelton & His Bryan County Boys	Motel Time	b/w Sorta Naughty (Modern 1949)
Inez Hellman	I've Gotta Live With Me	b/w You Ain't Ever Gonna Change (Excellent 1958)
Bob Mooney	A Sucker Born Every Day	b/w Jug of Wine (Kentucky 1953)
Jack Carlin	I've Got One Foot in the Grave (And the Other Won't Behave)	b/w The Onliest Thing I Won't Do (Is Work, Work, Work) (Fable )
Helen Mack with Stanton's Rhythm Ranchhands	You're Disowned By Me	b/w My Honky Tonkin' Husband (Excel 1955)
Jack Chambers with the Rainbow Boys	Don't Be Fooled	b/w Sometime (Whispering Pines 1960)
Milt Dickey with String Band	Neon Love	b/w Our Wedding Will Always Be Brand New (Sho-Me 1952)

Lone Ranger & Welton Irie	Chase Them Crazy	b/w Sound Dimension: Chase Them (Studio One 1977)
The Righteous Flames	Born to Be Loved	b/w Version (Studio One 1967)
Randy's All Stars	End Dust	b/w I'm the One, You're the One (Randy's 1970)
Dennis Alcapone	Ripe Cherry	b/w The Inner Circle: Red Cherry (Jaguar 1971)
Wareika Hill Sounds	Coconut Head Special	Wareika Hill Sounds (Honest Jons 2007)
Oku Onuora	We'll Keep on Struggling	Dubbin' Away (ROIR 1999)
Noel Ellis	Memories	Noel Ellis (Summer 1983)

Dexter Gordon	Stairway to the Stars	Our Man in Paris (Blue Note 1963)
Byard Lancaster	John III	Us (Palm 1974)
Ernst Reijseger	Comodo Varan	Tell Me Everything (Winter & Winter 2013)
Mal Waldron	Snake Out	Up Popped the Devil (Enja 1973)

Daniel Kachamba	Mulungu Adzatembenuza	The Original Pound: Pamtondo's Greatest Hits (Pamtondo )
Garikayi Tirikoti	Chavechinyakare	MaiDei (Limitless Sky 2003)
Tsy An-Jaza	Tsy An-Jaza Andao Tsika Holy	Tulear Never Sleeps: Tsapiky Guitars from South West Madagascar (Earthworks 1999)
Afel Bocoum	Yarabitala	Alkibar (World Circuit 1999)
Eric Agyeman	Odo Bra	Highlife Safari (Stern's 1978)

The Manhattans	Searchin' for My Baby	b/w I'm the One That Love Forgot (Carnival 1965)
The Superbs	Dear Abbey	b/w I Was a Groupie for the F.B.I. (Doré 1980)
Tony Drake	Suddenly	b/w It Hurts Me More (Brunswick 1970)
The O'Jays	Friday Night	b/w Stand in for Love (Imperial 1966)
Little Ben & the Cheers	Beggar of Love	b/w Roll That Rigg (Laredo 1968)
The Fabulous Three	No Name Bar	Best of the Fabulous Three (Truth & Soul 2010)
Walter Jackson	My Ship Is Comin' In	b/w A Cold Cold Winter (Okeh 1967)

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