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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2024 13:34:51 GMT -5
I want to get this now, and probably all the other 60s Bond movie soundtracks, now I think of it. I had a cd once of the theme songs through to the late 70s or early 80s, but it's the incidental orchestral music that ID forgotten about. BTW, in that 3rd clip, was that the first time that particular theme had been used in the Bond series? If you mean the opening part, it's still basically the same classic theme first heard in the main title sequence of Dr. No but then quickly reprising the Goldfinger theme (unless I'm missing some other part you were asking about!). I agree on the incidental music as well! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2024 13:38:04 GMT -5
Favorite albums of 1964 #7 - Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool
Chuck Berry's career did not end when he went to prison in 1962. Nor was he relegated to just playing his old stuff. He never hit the heights he had at his peak, but this album showed that Berry was still a great rock & roller. Side one of this album can stand with much of Berry's output at any time in his career. "No Particular Place to Go" is the best of Berry's late career records and doesn't have to take a back seat to any but his absolute best hits. "Promised Land" is a solid entry in to his list of singles. The real revelation here, though, is his cover of Guitar Slim's "The Things I Used to Do." Berry could sing and play the blues and do it damn well. This is a great rock & roll album at a time when rock & roll was on a respirator. I'm definitely a fan of this (and Chuck in general), nice pick and summary. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 13, 2024 14:52:07 GMT -5
Favorite albums of 1964 #7 - Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool
Chuck Berry's career did not end when he went to prison in 1962. Nor was he relegated to just playing his old stuff. He never hit the heights he had at his peak, but this album showed that Berry was still a great rock & roller. Side one of this album can stand with much of Berry's output at any time in his career. "No Particular Place to Go" is the best of Berry's late career records and doesn't have to take a back seat to any but his absolute best hits. "Promised Land" is a solid entry in to his list of singles. The real revelation here, though, is his cover of Guitar Slim's "The Things I Used to Do." Berry could sing and play the blues and do it damn well. This is a great rock & roll album at a time when rock & roll was on a respirator. I'm definitely a fan of this (and Chuck in general), nice pick and summary. Chuck Berry was a family tradition in my family. By the time I came along my Dad mostly listened to country music. But he turned 13 in 1950, so he grew up with rock & roll and he would still listen to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly now and then. When my boys were little we listened to Berry a LOT when we were driving with the top down on my convertible. Three generations of Chuck Berry fans. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 13, 2024 16:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jul 13, 2024 18:11:54 GMT -5
I'm heading out to my brother's stag-do in a bit, so I'm gonna go ahead and post today's pick in my Top 10 albums of 1964 run down... #7 - The Rolling Stones by The Rolling StonesOne of the most interesting aspects of The Rolling Stones' self-titled debut album is that, for the most part, it captures the band as purist purveyors of authentic blues, rock 'n' roll and soul, rather than as pop stars, which they had recently become in the UK. Much of the material here is drawn from the repertoires of such blues and rock 'n' roll greats as Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Rufus Thomas. There is only one original Jagger/Richards composition: the frankly dire proto-folk rock of "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)", which sits rather uncomfortably among all the rootsy Americana. Still, it's a solid debut album overall, with a palpable hopped-up energy to many of the covers, and it made number 1 in the UK charts. In particular, the band do a damn good job of playing authentic Chicago rhythm & blues considering they were just a bunch of kids in their early 20s from Dartford! Stand out tracks for me would include the frantic versions of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Carol", along with "Mona", and their swaggering, sexually-charged rendition of "Route 66". The Rolling Stones isn't anywhere near the best album the band would release, but it's a fascinating record of them in their earliest and purest incarnation. Check out the band's bristling cover of the Slim Harpo track "I'm a King Bee"… Hearing that track reminds me of the Brian Jones doc I saw a few months ago Bill Wyman was the only Stone interviewed for it and he was very emphatic about how Jones was responsible for much of their sound and direction on these early records. Would that have been him playing slide guitar on this track? Of course he never developed into a songwriter the way Jagger and Richards did. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 14, 2024 6:23:21 GMT -5
#7 - Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool
I don't know this album in its entirety, but of course I know many of the songs on it, including "No Particular Place to Go", "Promised Land", "Little Marie" and the simply fabulous "You Never Can Tell". The album title is, I assume, an attempt on Berry and his record company's part to align themselves with the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion groups, for whom Berry was a prime inspiration. This is one of those records I've always vaguely meant to pick up, but for whatever reason haven't so far. I should really get on with that. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 14, 2024 6:25:12 GMT -5
Hearing that track reminds me of the Brian Jones doc I saw a few months ago Bill Wyman was the only Stone interviewed for it and he was very emphatic about how Jones was responsible for much of their sound and direction on these early records. Would that have been him playing slide guitar on this track? Of course he never developed into a songwriter the way Jagger and Richards did. Absolutely, yes...that's Brian Jones on slide guitar. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 14, 2024 11:45:44 GMT -5
Favorite albums of 1964  #6 - Otis Redding - Pain in my Heart
Otis' first album, released as all the Stax/Vot artist's albums were on the Atco label. Redding had only been touring for about a year and a half at the time and was still feeling his way around what he was doing, but this is the soul right to the core. The album consists of songs from sessions recorded in 1962 and 1963. The big kahuna here is obviously "These Arms of Mine" one of Redding's biggest hits of his career. But there's an awful lot more to like here. There's a lot of covers, including a pretty faithful faithful rendition of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me." At this point in his career, Otis couldn't give the Redding twist to his idol. But this is 100% a soul album produced for a soul publisher that was not going to try to turn this soul shouter in to a pop crooner. If this isn't quite the full-fledged Otis Redding we would see a year later with the release of "Otis Blue" it's a roadmap for Redding to get to that voice, one of the most important in soul history. And it was a roadmap for a plethora of other soul shouters, black and white, to follow to reach the promised land. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 14, 2024 12:53:17 GMT -5
#6 - Otis Redding - Pain in my Heart
Nice pick. Again, I'm not familiar with the album in its entirity, but I know a good 3 or 4 tracks from it via their appearances on an Otis Redding compilation CD I have. You really can't go wrong with Redding's music. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 14, 2024 12:58:13 GMT -5
Next up on my Top 10 albums of 1964... #6 - Folk Singer by Muddy Waters It's not the first time we've seen this album in this 1964 run down, and there's not much more for me to add that Slam_Bradley didn't already say in his excellent write up. The album's title was a none-too-subtle attempt to cash in on the then-current folk music boom, but make no mistake – this is not a folk album: it's Mississippi Delta Blues through and through. As Slam has already mentioned, this is Waters' only acoustic album (not counting compilations of his early Alan Lomax sessions from 1941, of course) and it's a treat because of that alone. Folk Singer is a moody, intimate-sounding set of recordings, mostly taken at slower tempos, with Waters very often playing so softly that the listener wants to lean in closer towards the music to hear what's going on. There's a haunting, "down at the crossroads"-style forlornness to many of the tracks and the whole album oozes with Mississippi mud. It's also a superbly recorded and engineered album, courtesy of producers Ralph Bass and Willie Dixon; there aren't too many albums recorded in 1964 that audiophiles still rave about in 2024, but this is one of them! I don't want to pick out the same tracks that Slam did, so I'm gonna instead go for "Long Distance"… |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2024 17:35:14 GMT -5
Today I present a return to the vibes taking the lead with "The Sensuous Rhythms of Spanish Harlem": 6) Dave Pike and His Orchestra - Manhattan LatinIt's so jazzy and romantic, my wife and I are relaxing to it right now in fact, life is good  A very young Chick Corea on this as well! |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 14, 2024 18:40:58 GMT -5
6) Dave Pike and His Orchestra - Manhattan Latin Ahh...good ol' Dave Pike. The cool folks I used to hang out with in the Camden scene in London during the mid-90s would listen to his stuff on occasion. Someone did a cassette tape of his Noisy Silence/Gentle Noise album for me back in the day, which contains the sublime, sitar-drenched "Marthar". Manhattan Latin isn't an album I'm familiar with, but based on the track you posted, I would probably enjoy it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2024 6:07:55 GMT -5
I enjoyed the Muddy Waters and Otis Redding selections, while they are not artists I listen to a lot, I have always particularly loved both of their voices. Another example of where a thread like this expands my listening a little which is always a good thing.
For today, things get a little more avant-garde, or considerably so to be honest. While I do love the sheer musicianship of jazz, it sometimes takes some listening fortitude in my opinion to access some of the more free form material no matter how talented the players are.
That's my experience with this album led by Eric Dolphy (sadly posthumous as he passed away very shortly before its release all too young), and features a talented lineup indeed including a very young Tony Martin on drums. Not for the faint of heart, but for some tastes an intriguing musical exploration (this is probably one of the more accessible numbers):
5) Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
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Post by Confessor on Jul 15, 2024 7:38:49 GMT -5
5) Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! I must confess that I've never heard of Eric Dolphy before. The musicianship on that track you posted is very good, and I do kinda like the slinky quality of the music, but in all honesty, this is a little too Avant-garde for my tastes. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 15, 2024 8:16:49 GMT -5
Yet another one of my Top 10 favourite albums of 1964... #5 - Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo by Georgie Fame By 1964, the Flamingo jazz and blues club had become the most happening nightclub of the burgeoning Swinging London scene. It was a place where mods, "Dolly Birds", aristocracy socialites, Caribbean immigrants, and African-American military personnel all danced the night away until 5 or 6am. It was simply the place to be in London in the early '60s. Of the venue's resident bands, it was Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames who were by far the most popular. So, once Fame signed to EMI subsidiary Columbia Records in 1963, it was a no-brainer that his debut album release would be a live recording from the Flamingo. The great thing about Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo is that it makes you feel as if you're right there among the sweaty bodies, spilled drinks, and clouds of cigarette smoke: the album carries the swinging, high-energy atmosphere of '60s club life and the attendant Rhythm & Blues scene like nothing else. It's almost like listening to an aural documentary record! The album features a great selection of R'n'B, ska, soul, and blues numbers, designed to get clubgoers' feet moving, and, while it failed to chart, it sold steadily over subsequent years – helped in part by Fame's later hit singles (including three UK number 1's). Although it's far from being a "hi-fi" recording, there's an honest and sensuous energy to Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo that is hard to beat. This was one of the must-have LPs for young partygoers in mid-60s Britain. Here's a sweaty-sounding cover of Rufus Thomas' "Do the Dog" from the album… |
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