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Love this cool little James Bond meets the Surf tune composed and performed by Buddy Merrill. Buddy joined the Lawrence Welk Show at age 19 and became well know for his multi-tracking recording style. Man id love to see Dick Dale and Buddy Merrill belt out a few battle riffs.  Enjoy

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Marvin Holmes was one of the major movers and shakers of Bay area soul and funk through the 60s and 70s, recording with the Uptights, Justice, and under his own name. He recorded 45s for a number of different labels including Revue, Brown Door, Uni, Kon-Kord, and Boola Boola, as well as 1969 LP for Uni.

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Who knew that before they were “Happy Together” the Turtles were a funky buzzed out bunch of surf cats that would have made Davie Allen & the Arrows proud…???

Spanky Wilson is an American Vocalist best known for her version of Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream.

Born in Philadelphia she has been performing since the late 60′s. Wilson has shared the stage many soul and jazz legends, including Marvin Gaye, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy McGriff and Jimmy Smith.

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Jackie Paine moved to Houston in the early sixties and recorded this little treat by the time he was 19 for the JETSTREAM label, which the Crazy Cajun, record industry hustler Huey P. Meaux (pick up a copy of House of Hits to find out more about him). Go Go Train was such a delicious single back in the day it landed Jackie Paine a 45 stop tour with the Stax Revue. Everyone go ahead and get on board the GO GO TRAIN!!!!

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Were always on the hunt for a new groove and Raphael Saadiq never disappoints, this Neo-Soul movement is full of amazing acts like Sharon Jones, Black Joes Lewis and many others and always keep in mind those trail blazers that are still laying it down today like Roy Head, Archie Bell, and Lee Fields.
Talk a Walk with Rapael Saadiq and those troubles of the day just melt away.

Soulful rocker that I believe was originally written for Elvis’ & Nancy Sinatra’s musical Speedway and was also included in Elvis’ 1968′ Comeback Special but never aired because it was pulled by the sponsors who thought it was little too risqué. See for your self, too bad this never beamed over the american airwaves those cute little pink dresses definitely piqued my fashion interests.

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LuLu Reed was raised in the church singing gospel music. Nurtured by the choir director of her church, Professor Harold Boggs, helped her get her start on Federal Records, where she learned to sing the Devil’s hymns we know as rhythm and blues. Federal Records would go on to recognize LuLu as one of the founding Queen’s of RnB.

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Funky lil track by one of the groovest backing bands of modern day the Dap-kings who also happen to back the amazing funk/soul singer Sharon Jones. These guys are taking it back to the days when things were done right, with real instruments in a pure analog studio. You’ll defiantly want to keep an eye out for anything Daptone these are the same cats who discovered and helped Amy Winehouse develop her sound.

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A nice little piece, more the fuzzed out garagey freakbeat style, from the renaissance french men. Dutronc not only worked as a musician, he also worked for vogue records, acted, and wrote songs for many other acts; ZouZou, Francoise Hardy,  & Cleo. You Dig?

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Been trying to get hands my on this groovin soul duet for sometime its one of two collaborations recorded between Etta James and Sugar Pie De Santo who coincidentally were also old childhood friends.

For more on Sugar Pie DeSanto I couldn’t say it any better than this : http://www.bay-area-bands.com/bab00076.htm

Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James

Dyke and the Blazers – We Got More Soul

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Mr Dynamite – Sh’mon

“Hey baby, Whats its gonna do!

Ive got a brand new bag, Sh’mon in here too!”

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Young Rascals – Slow Down

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BIG MAYBELLE – 96 Tears

“Astounding cover of the garage classic originally recorded in 1965. This is Maybelle’s 1967 version.
Just listen to that voice!”

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Johnnie Taylor – Dance What You Wanna

‘Dance what you wanna, dance anyway you can….’

Little Richard – Slippin’ and a Slidin’

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