Ray Bryant group- "The Madison Time"

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

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is this columbia 45 single i got today (pts 1&2)

its not square enough to be a squaredance...

but omg this is a really interesting single, buddy tate is on it too

[JSngry]

Oye, Chuito: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=47841&hl=madison&st=0

[JSngry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRyzJYvZzSk&feature=related

[jeffcrom]

I've got a promo copy of the 1960 Madison Time album by the Ray Bryant Combo on Columbia. The music is really nice jump blues, with dance calls by Eddie Morrison on just a few of the tracks, thankfully. Here's a scan of the steps and the personnel.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so ray bryants 45 was really promoting it to be used in the dance, it came w/ that little flyer? dude this dance is seriously lacking.

[danasgoodstuff]

It's no more, or less, 'rap' than Rufus Thomas's little recitation in the middle of "Walking the dog" was...anchrnistic is as anachranistic does (not).

[jeffcrom]

so ray bryants 45 was really promoting it to be used in the dance, it came w/ that little flyer? dude this dance is seriously lacking.

The scan I included was from the back of the 12" LP. And the thing about any of those lame old dances is that they could be danced with style. A couple of years before Eddie Bo died, I was listening to him at a happy hour gig in New Orleans. A woman in her 30s (I guess) asked for his 1962 hit "Check Mr. Popeye," which was designed for dancing the Popeye, a lame dance which was popular in N.O. at the time. This young lady could flat out dance the Popeye - it was a blast to watch.

[Christiern]

Wilson and Keppel were head of the game...

Check them out

andhere

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

omg

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Wilson and Keppel were head of the game...

Check them out

andhere

I remember seeing them in the fifties, doing the sand dance outside a cinema in Leicester Square, where my Dad and I were queuing up to go in. They were, essentially, buskers who got trendy for a while, then went back to busking. Thanks for the reminder, Chris.

MG