Saturday, June 27, 2020

Rare Pair Share Dept.

What th' heck's goin' on here?
Couple of nice vinyl rips courtesy Our Pal Tremolo. Milton Chesley Carroll's eponymous first album, on paper-thin DynaFlex©, from '72, and Michael Kenny's eponymous and only album, not on paper-thin DynaFlex©, from '76. Country rock and city rock respectively.
Love Of The Common People and Seventh Son are both wrongly attributed to Carroll on discogs. Steve Gadd (that Steve Gadd) and Tony Levin (that Tony Levin) help out. David Spinozza, recently FoamFeatured© peddling hallucinogens to pre-teens, is among the sessioners on Kenny's album, which is AOR but AOK with me.

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12 comments:

  1. UncleBJune 27, 2020 at 7:46 AM

    What's the "game" today? (for cheepskate chiselers to corral Carroll?) (I'm game!)

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  2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJune 27, 2020 at 8:36 AM

    The game is the caption to Carroll's album. Try for something we're not expecting.

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  3. UncleBJune 27, 2020 at 9:20 AM

    Sew, eff I follow...

    The above depicted Long-Player is in need of a tile...? (To those who cam in late, I suspect we're typing about the one what's red-letter captioned "WTF" or whatever... I'm too lazy to scroll back up... Story of most of the 4or5s' lives, or lack thereofs, I suspect...)

    Milton Chesley Carroll's eponymous first album. . . .?:

    Why its...

    "I'm jolly, I'm outdoorsy, I'm musically inclined. So how the heck did I get HERE?!"

    (At least that's the way I read it on the spine text on the scarce FoamFlex import pressing. Which was seen at the Foam Isle library. In the picture posted the other day. It WAS up on the shelves just behind reclining & reading Ed. Do I need glasses, or what?)

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  4. UncleBJune 27, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    CAME in late...

    NOT " . . . . cam in late . . ."

    Gearheads can check in with their own jokes.

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  5. UncleBJune 27, 2020 at 9:36 AM

    . . . Carroll's Love Of The Common People . . .

    Nicky Thomas' "Love Of The Common People" was memorably covered (rarely is this term used correctly, by the by...) by (among the many):

    The Everly Brothers
    Ol' Waylon.

    And jeepers, I just found these two while Czeching for kerect spellinks...!:

    Ed Ames(!)
    The Four Preps (!!!!)

    Good gravy. The Originals Project says that the latter from '66 is the OV....!

    And Eric Donaldson beat Thomas to the punch by a coupla years as far as JA. versions go... The Nicky T. is the enduring rasta take ... (& was bigger hit, it seems to me) Available in "raw" and overdubbed versions. Check YooToob for a STEREO SYNCH of the two...! (What kind of weirdo would think of doing THAT...?!?!)

    - U.B. né B.B.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJune 27, 2020 at 11:54 AM

      "Love of the Common People" was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins, it says here, but not on discogs, where it's credited to Carroll, as well as Seventh Son, which will come as a surprise to Willie Dixon, up in heaven on the royalties.

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    2. Jack Kerouac's CatJune 27, 2020 at 7:46 PM

      Dixon was very good at copyrighting black oral traditions and folklore.

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    3. Harold Raisin IIIJune 27, 2020 at 8:57 PM

      Dixon was as fine a songwriter as could be in the 50's - but that should go without saying. What is sometimes forgotten is what a fine and fun musician he was too. The Big Three Trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgY13JwIS8Q

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    4. UncleBJune 28, 2020 at 3:25 AM

      If you count on one hand all the stuff Dixon's been cheated out of over the years, you'd need a, uh, well, more than one hand, that's for sure.

      On the other hand, true, he did "appropriate" old (P.D., "traditional," etc.) stuff and "take" it as his own. The example which comes immediately to mind is "My Babe," which basically is "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)" with new words.

      Now back to you, Zep-heads.

      Page-Plant et al would have maybe got away with it if they'd just said "trad." or "adaptated" in the fine printage...

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  6. UncleBJune 27, 2020 at 9:40 AM

    Fergot the linkage...

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lypilapa+nicky+love+common

    Also by Pierre: A stereo "Young, Gifted & Black"!:

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

    Dig it the most man!

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  7. Harold Raisin IIIJune 27, 2020 at 8:48 PM

    "Shearling in Sheboygan"

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  8. One Buck GuyJuly 5, 2020 at 2:23 PM

    Carroll sounds more than a little like Jim Croce, doesn't he? Fine album, even if it was completely out of time and style by 1976.

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