Tom in RI Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Anyone else familiar with the work of one Little Milton??? Grits Ain't Groceries Eggs Ain't Poultry And Mona Lisa Was a Man! Quote
John L Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Is that Little "Milton" Willie John? Quote
Chrome Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Anyone else familiar with the work of one Little Milton??? Grits Ain't Groceries Eggs Ain't Poultry And Mona Lisa Was a Man! Hell yeah! (That's Little Milton Campbell!) Quote
Harold_Z Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Is that Little "Milton" Willie John? Thanks John L. Quote
maren Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 "Favorite Soul Singer"? Might as well ask me to pick my favorite finger, or my favorite ventricle, or my favorite eye... Ann Peebles, anybody? Ted Taylor? Johnnie Taylor? Joe Tex? Irma Thomas? Rufus Thomas? Carla Thomas? Tina Turner (those not old enough to remember best go check out those earlier Ike & Tina sides, the ones you had to listen to "certain stations" to hear)? Did somebody say Laura Lee? Betty Wright? Joe Simon? ClarenceCarter? Tyrone Davis? (if you like the beggin'...) The list(s) go(es) on - this is an incredible deep well. Word. [James Brown, James Carr, Etta James, Aretha, Marvin, Otis, Ann Peebles, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Betty Wright, O.V. Wright, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Clarence Carter...] Quote
neveronfriday Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Marvin. Marvin. Marvin. Marvin. .... Quote
Brandon Burke Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 I actually like the Jamaican soul singers at least as much as their Amercian counterparts. Perhaps not surprisingly, there is something of a one-to-one correspondence between the two. Delroy Wilson and Ken Boothe in particular emulated the gravely Memphis sound of guys like Otis, Wilson Picket, and Rufus Thomas. Slim Smith was smoother and more innocent sounding. Like, say, Brenton Wood. Alton Ellis was basically the Jamaican Marvin Gaye. While Carlton & the Shoes sounded remarkably like the Impressions. The rocksteady period was basically the US soul sound, informed by a uniquely Jamaican sense of rhythm and harmony. Amazing stuff. Quote
Noj Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Not my favorite, but this big man is worth mentioning. Tragic how he died so young (26, iirc). Great album! Quote
Brandon Burke Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Yeah, that Baby Huey stuff is great. Esp his cover of "Hard Times". Quote
doubleM Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Marvin Gaye, w/ Donny Hathaway coming in a close second. Aretha for the female fave. Quote
Noj Posted February 9, 2005 Report Posted February 9, 2005 Yeah, that Baby Huey stuff is great. Esp his cover of "Hard Times". I'll have to check the liners when I get home, I didn't realize it was a cover. That's my favorite track on the cd, along with "Change Is Gonna Come." Quote
Brandon Burke Posted February 10, 2005 Report Posted February 10, 2005 Yeah, that Baby Huey stuff is great. Esp his cover of "Hard Times". I'll have to check the liners when I get home, I didn't realize it was a cover. That's my favorite track on the cd, along with "Change Is Gonna Come." I'm pretty certain that "Hard Times" is a Curtis Mayfield song. Baby Huey's version has been sampled a number of times.... Alkaholiks’s “Soda Pop” A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick It?” Biz Markie’s “The Dragon” Black Moon’s “Powaful Impak!” Chemical Brothers’s “Playground for a Wedgeless Firm” Chill Rob G’s “Ride the Rhythm” Diamond D’s “Red Light, Green Light” Ice Cube’s “The Birth” Ghostface Killah’s “Buck 50” Kwest the Madd Ladd’s “125 Pennies for Your Thoughts” Naughty By Nature’s “Connections” People Under the Stairs’s “Fredly Advice” Saafir’s “Joint Custody” Skoolbeats’s “Hard Times” Super Cat’s “Ghetto Red Hot” Yaggfu Front’s “Slappin' Suckas Silly” Young Black Teenagers’s “Sweatin' Me” Quote
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