Heavy Boom's Top Tunes: Recent Episodes
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Soul and reggae tunes that I like. Stuff I play at Tighten Up! Club nights, and some stuff I dig but doesn't always fit into the all-dance format of our DJ nights.
Between work, trips and moving it's been tough setting aside some time to do another one of these, but I finally got my gear all set up at home. Threw together some of the stuff I've been playing out lately and some stuff I'm looking forward to playing out. All vinyl, all the time.
The Ballantynes- Stay Maskman and the Agents- Y'all Rufus Thomas- Walking the Dog Solomon Burke- I Can't Stop Temptations- You've Got To Earn It Untouchables- Tighten Up Al Barry & the Cimarons- Morning Sun Soul Syndicate- Natty in Hong Kong Upsetters- High Plains Drifter Supremes- Money (That's What I Want) Betty Wright- Is It You Girls Honey Cone- While You're Out Looking for Sugar Tony Joe White- Polk Salad Annie ZZ Hill- Oh! Darling Sam Cooke- Baby Baby Baby Freddy McKay- Love Is A Treasure Slim Smith- It's Alright Lloydie and the Lowbites- White Rum & Pum Pum Junior Soul- Chattie Chattie Dennis Alcapone- King of the Track Lone Ranger- The Answer Ike & Tina Turner- I Wanna Jump Junior Wells- It's A Man Down There Spyder Turner- You're Good Enough For Me Mel Tormé- I'm Coming Home
It's pretty rare to have King Penn back in town. He helped us get tighten Up! Club started and moved out East, but he's gonna be back helping us out for NYE, so we got together this afternoon and threw down some tracks. Opened up with a bit of British R&B (including a cover of a song from the last podcast), then worked into our soul and reggae from there. As always, Tighten Up! Club uses only vinyl, from our personal collections.
01- Julian Covay and the Machine- A Little Bit Hurt 02- Undertakers- Stupidity 03- ZZ Hill- You Were Wrong 04- Ollie and the Nightingales- I Got a Feeling 05- Gene Miller- What Do You Mean? 06- Edwin Starr- Back Street 07- The Precisions- If this Is Love 08- Little Milton- Feel so Bad 09- Maytals- Dog War 10- Kentrick Patrick- Man To Man 11- Baba Brooks- One Eyed Giant 12- Dennis Alcapone- Cassius Clay 13- U-Roy- Tom Drunk 14- George Dekker- Foey Man 15- Young Souls- Man Wail 16- Paragons- We Were Meant To Be 17- Delroy Wilson- Put Yourself In My Place 18- Mary Wells- Bye Bye Baby 19- Jean Wells- With My Love and What You've got (We Could Turn The World Around) 20- Etta James- Tighten Up Your Own Thing 21- Chuck Jackson- I Keep Forgettin' 22- JJ Barnes- I think I Found A Love 23- Bobby Bland- Shoes 24- Ike and Tina Turner- Ohh Poo Pa Doo 25- Darrow Fletcher- the Pain Gets A Little depper 26- Four Tops- Wake Me, Shake Me (When It's Over) 27- Ernest Wilson- Private Number 28- Lloyd Terell- Bang Bang Lulu 29- Hopeton Lewis- Deh Pon Dem 30- Dandy Livingstone- Suzanne, Beware of the Devil 31- The Enforcers- Musical Fever
My first shot at recording a mix of the stuff I jam at Tighten Up! Club nights. Technically I still have issues to iron out, but the tunes are pretty undeniable. It's about 63 minutes and just like Tighten Up, it's all-vinyl
01- Koko Taylor- Tell the Truth 02- Betty Harris- Ride Your Pony 03- Big Mama Thornton- My Man Called Me 04- Hopeton Lewis- Let Me Come Home 05- Toots and the Maytals- Country Roads 06- Nicky Thomas- Lola 07- Laurel Aitken- Skinhead Train 08- Ray Charles- I Don't Need No Doctor 09- Betty Everett- Too Hot Too Hold 10- Etta James- Fire 11- Tony Clarke- Landslide 12- Edwin Starr- Agent Double O Soul 13- The Upsetters- Return of Django 14- Prince Buster- Wreck A Pum Pum 15- Charlie Organair- Little Holiday 16- Owen Gray- Darling Patricia 17- Wailers- Hooligans 18- Arthur Conley- People Sure Act Funny 19- Fontella Bass- Hold On This Time 20- Solomon Burke- Stupidity 21- Aretha Franklin- Niki Hoeky 22- Velvelettes- Lonely Lonely Fool Am I 23- Marcia Aitken- I'm Still In Love 24- Lyn Taitt and the Jets- Batman 25- Baba Brooks- Shank I Sheck 26- Prince Fatty- Insane in the Brain