Etta James' 1973 original on Chess was pretty great - see http://uzine.posterous.com/james-etta - but Esther Phillips' 1976 remake on Kudu (~ CTI) is the best take, imho! It's been reissued on cd by Sony in 2010 - see also http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2010/03/esther-phillips-capricorn-princess-to.html
Excellent boogie funk from 1976 by Spider's Webb, featuring Wrecking Crew bass ace Carol Kaye … on lead guitar! "I Don't Know What's On Your Mind" (Fantasy cat. no. F-9517) has just been reissued by BGP in their "Funk & Jazz Classics" series (CDBGPM247).
Pt. 2 of http://uzine.posterous.com/im-etta-james … I.M. Etta James (1938-01-25 > 2012-01-20). Hey and do check Esther Phillips' 1976 version of "All the way down" here: http://uzine.posterous.com/esthers-version
Madeline Bell, Alan Parker c.s. in 1976, for Parker's Themes International library label … just reissued on (Dutton) Vocalion (CDSML 8473, 2011). The sleeve's nicked off Millie Jackson's "It Hurts So Good" (Spring 1973), actually.
Dragon, from Belgium, released their untitled debut in 1976. It's no masterpiece, but this spaceyish track is rather nice. The lp has recently been reprinted by Golden Pavillion (GP1003LP, 2010-05-30), who've also released the band's so-so 1977 demo recordings as "Kalahen" (GP1009LP, 2011-03-01).
http://www.golden-pavilion.com/
http://www.psychemusic.org/60s-70s.html#anchor_365
http://www.muziekarchief.be/identitydetails.php?ID=77163
http://www.belgianmetalhistory.be/html/bands/dragon/dragon.html
Once upon a time in the mid-1970s there was a man named Hans Fenger who taught music in the Langley School District outside Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) … We've already reviewed the "Innocence & Despair" cd - featuring 1976 & 1977 recordings by students of the Wix-Brown, Lochiel South Carvolth and Glennwood Elementary schools - in [uzine 02.06]. Since, George Plasketes has published an interesting chapter on the project in his book "B-sides, undercurrents and overtones: peripheries to popular in music, 1960 to the present" (Ashgate 2009-06, ISBN 9780754665618). All hail Brian Lind!
http://www.bastamusic.com/catalog/langley-schools-music-project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langley_Schools_Music_Project
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1132233
http://www.bar-none.com/langley-schools-music-project.html
http://www.scrammagazine.com/scram-magazine-fifteen
http://www.appelstein.com/langley/
http://myspace.com/langschool
http://www.hansfenger.com/
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/story.html
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/hanslett.html
http://www.keyofz.com/langley/kids.htm
Piero Umiliani's classic track (1968), as made famous by David Mahna MacKay (in 1969 - more on him in the next post), Sesame Street (1969), Sesamstraße (?) and, last but not least, the Muppets (e.g. 1976) … Apparently, Jim Henson c.s. have recorded several versions, most of them by the character Bip Bippadotta ... but Sandra Bullock did her part too - see http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song) for more on all that!
It's … the Fattoruso brothers from Montevideo! And João José Pereira "Raul" de Souza from Rio de Janeiro! As produced by Airto Moreira!
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8733
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8731
Jon Lucien (1942-01-08 > 2007-08-18) is being reissued on BBR … I'm hoping "Mind's eye" (#3, RCA 1974) and "Premonition" (#5, Columbia 1976) will follow soon …
