On 8/9/2024 1:39 AM, Roger wrote:
Ten fave unreleased tracks chosen from my yearly Favorites lists
Today………from 1955
BO DIDDLEY – HEART-O-MATIC LOVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhqOEjl2GU
Representing the 1955 year of inception Bo Diddley in the 2014
Unreleased Battle came the sparse yet
hypnotically insistent “Heart-O-Matic Love” (Bo Diddley vcl/gtr/Lester Davenport (hca) Jerome Green (maraccas) Willie Dixon (bass) Clifton
James or Frank Kirkland (dms)
Sadly the track had to wait several decades to see release. It
eventually surfaced on the MCA/Chess
set “Rare And Well Done” in 1991
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Even more sadly, I thought I had a killer diller when I nominated this
in the Obscurities tourney, but it didn't do all that well. Glad you appreciate it too.
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HAL PAIGE & THE WHALERS – ROCK THIS JOINT THIS MORNING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zqZMYIjS0
First off eternal thanks go to Diane for nominating this GREAT
absolutely SCORCHING rockin’ effort in the 2014 Unreleased Battle. I don’t think I knew it before that and it instantly became one of my most favorite items in the contest. It’s stayed one of my top faves ever
since
Thanks Di!
Okay…the history….Paige & co were pacted to Hy Weiss’ Old Town recording
setup in 1955 and had just one release on their subsidiary Paradise
label (most remembered as the home of The Harptones’ absolute classic “Life Is But A Dream” earlier that year). The track in question here seems to have languished in the Old Town vaults until rescued in 1987
when it first appeared on the UK Ace LP “Harlem Hit Parade (Old Town
Blues Vol.2)"
BTW Apparently I’m far from alone in my huge liking for this one since
it finished the HIGHEST placed recording of 1955 in the 2014 Unreleased Battle results (where it ended up #6 overall)
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Wow! I don't even remember that! Anyhow, you're welcome.
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MAMIE REE & YOUNG WOLF – NO NEED ACTING LIKE THAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi2K3x-sQd0
Recorded for Jake Porter’s Combo label in 1955 Mamie Ree (alias Mamie Perry and later more accurately Mamie Jenkins*) combined with “Young Wolf”---alias bandleader Gus Jenkins---(who as “Gus Jinkins” (sic) will
have the big r&b hit “Tricky” a year on from here) on the excellent “No
Need Acting Like That which missed getting a Combo release and stayed in
the vaults until 1991 when it was rescued with inclusion on the UK Ace collection “Back To The Alley” (a set compiled by discographer and friend in heaven Ray Topping)
Mamie herself went on to record for Pioneer International where---as
Mamie Perry---she recorded the future Northern Soul monster “Lament” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uesZaljG4o
No,that one doesn't do much for me either
*I guess most everyone will have guessed by now that somewhere in this convoluted saga Mamie and Gus took a few moments out to tie the knot and become man and wife 😊
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She had a nice 2-sider on Flash in 1957, "Jump With Me Baby"/"Hambone" (different song from the Dee Clark group). She was Mrs. Jenkins by then.
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