they should of called it THE ALTERNATE HOOTIN' N TOOTIN

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Ike is killin on it. why did he have to die. he never even got to expierence the 70s funk era. he would of been balls heavy balls in that era, can u imagine it? earl vandyke, i didnt realize he rec. more for BN besides of course hootin. so is that and the ike sessin the whole of it? or wasnt there one of ther date i dont know/. theres some unkown organist on it too, and then also sir charles thompson, who id ont think did any other Blue note dates. it was worth the 30 big ones. when i went in to get it they had PULLED it from shelf and were about to send it back cause no one had bought it. if i was an hour later i would of missed it

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I guess what you're talking about is Ike Quebec's "With a song in my heart" LP. All of that, plus other sessions Ike made that were intended to be issued on 45s, are on the double CD "The complete Blue Note 45 sessions". All killer stuff.

Earl Van Dyke made a further session for BN - another with Fred Jackson on 9 April 1962. That session has the same personnel as "Hootin' 'n tootin'" but, for some reason, has Sam Jones added on bass. It wasn't released until the Conn CD of "Hootin'" came out in 1998. Cuscuna thought the reason it wasn't released was because it was too short, but it's actually slightly longer than "Hootin'". And it's another great session, although there's no individual track that comes up to "Southern exposure".

I don't imagine the Conn is still available, though I haven't checked.

MG

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so that "cowbell boogie" is a TOTALY DIFFERNEt freed thing WITHOUT Earl??

yo yeah oh yeah i have hootin- totally forgot that other part was another session. i havent played hootin in some time but it always was a prime staple in my collection. hootin' n tootin. what a great album

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

what was fred jacksons deal again? he wasnt the one w/ ray, that was wilkerson, right? what was f.j's background again?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Fred was from Atlanta - or worked in Atlanta any way. He recorded in the late '40s & early '50s with Billy Wright, Prince of the Blues, and I think Chuck Willis. In the mid '50s, he was on Little Richard's first recording session - done for RCA - and played a splendid solo on "Get rich quick". Unfortunately, I left the LP with that on it on my bed one day in 1962 and, when I got home in the evening, it had melted quite significantly. Duke Pearson refers to this background in his sleeve notes to "The way I feel" noting that he was called "Hurricane" - QRT. In the late '50s he joined Lloyd Price's band and hooked up with Big John. He was still in that band in 1963, when Lloyd recorded "This is my band" for his own label Double L, but playing alto (the Lord discography says he was playing tenor, but he is recognisable on the sleeve with an alto).

MG