Chuck Jackson: Tribute To Rhythm And B on CD
Tribute To Rhythm And B
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Kent
- Item number:
- 4501394
- UPC/EAN:
- 0029667224727
- Release date:
- 4.7.2005
"Sit back, relax and listen to Bobby Scott, the leader of my band as we pay tribute to the great ones in the Rhythm & Blues field - not to copy, just to pay tribute." That's Chuck Jackson's invitation at the beginning of this CD which combines the albums originally released separately as Tribute To Rhythm & Blues Volumes 1 & 2. And pay tribute they do, with lively renditions of over 20 soul & R&B favourites from the early to middle 60s rather than the somewhat pale imitations that sometimes seemed to fill out the albums of some of Chuck's contemporaries.
As Bill Dahl reveals in his notes, Chuck had told him - "We just went with my band, we didn't have an engineer. We used Florence Greenberg's son [Stan Green]. We just went in and sat down and did it. We didn't stop. We did it just like we were at a nightclub." Bobby Scott led a band that hailed from Galveston, Texas. He himself played tenor sax and the key players in the band were Chuck's mainstay on the road from 1963 until the end of the decade. Joining him for the sessions that produced the TRIBUTE TO RHYTHM & BLUES were a horn section that included trumpeters Patrick Williams and Willie Cook, trombonist Malcolm Esther, tenor saxist Philbert Lasley, and baritone saxist Clifford Cotton. The rhythm section comprised guitarist Joe L Smith, bassist Douglas McKindley, and drummer Vincent Ruggiero. Chuck earns himself a credit on organ, and Valerie Simpson, then a Scepter / Wand staff writer (along with her partners Nicholas Ashford and Joshie Jo Armstead), played piano and organ.
Topped and tailed by Bobby Scott's instrumental Theme To The Blues, the repertoire encompasses songs from a wide variety of artists in the R&B and soul fold. Recorded as it was in 1966, the material obviously reflects the then recently popular sounds. So from the previous 12 months, we have versions of Sam & Dave's You Don't Know Like I Know and Hold On! I'm Comin'; Lee Dorsey's Get Out Of My Life, Woman; Bobby Hebb's Sunny, Wilson Pickett's 634-5789, Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and the Ikettes' I'm So Thankful. There's a tribute to Satisfaction which clearly owes more to Otis Redding's version than that of the originators and a medley of four 1966 hits the Temptations Get Ready, Robert Parker's Barefootin, Stevie Wonder's Uptight (Everything's Alright) plus the Capitols' Cool Jerk.
Songs from the earlier part of the 60s are represented by treatments of B. B. King's Sweet Sixteen, Lee Dorsey's Ya Ya, Gary U. S. Bonds' Quarter To Three, and three selections first performed by female artists. There's All In My Mind, the first hit from Chuck's stablemate and duo partner Maxine Brown, Etta James' Something's Got A Hold On Me, and a suitably masculinized version of The Love Of My (Man) Girl, the great song from Theola Kilgore. Not all the sounds are tributes to other artists however there are three strong sides which were Chuck originals - I've Got To Be Strong, Where Did She Stay, and Every Man Needs A Down Home Girl.
This "Tribute" CD is the latest in Kent's 2-on-1 reissue program for Chuck Jackson's Wand albums. Previously released and still available are - I DON'T WANT TO CRY / ANY DAY NOW albums coupled together on Kent CDKEND 107; ENCORE / MR EVERYTHING on Kent CDKEND110, as well as his two duet albums with Maxine Brown, SAYING SOMETHING and HOLD ON, WE'RE COMING coupled together on Kent.
Look for the series to be rounded out later in theyear with the release of Chuck's live on the road album together with his Elvis tribute album.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Theme to the blues
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2 You don't know like I know
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3 A change is gonna come
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4 Get out of my life, woman
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5 Sweet sixteen
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6 Satisfaction
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7 All in my mind
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8 The love of my girl
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9 I'm so thankful
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10 Something's got a hold on me
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11 Quarter to hree
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12 Ya ya
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13 Getting ready medley: Get ready / Barefootin' / Uptight (Everything's alright) / Cool jerk
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14 Sunny
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15 634-5789
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16 Hold on! I'm comin'
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17 Blowin' in the wind
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18 I've got to be strong
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19 Where did she stay
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20 My baby loves me
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21 Every man needs a down home girl
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22 Theme to the blues [Part 2]
