WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 09/26/14

Listener comments!

8:43am Gary:

Is that from the T.A.M.I. Show?

8:45am Doug Schulkind:

Beats me Gary, but if it is, I should've waited to use the gif on October 28, which will be the 50th anniversary of the T.A.M.I. Show.

8:47am Gary:

Oh, wow, that's right! I saw the film for the first time about five years ago and was (as you'd imagine) totally blown away

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8:47am duke:

I caught the Stanley Bros. on the stream a few minutes ago. I'm trying to imagine Ralph and Carter dancing like JB or JB and the Famous Flames doing Stanley Bros. harmonies. We need more crossover.

8:47am Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of being blown away: wfmu.org...

8:49am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
I'll be airing a "soul singers go country" set during today's show.

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8:49am duke:

JB's T.A.M.I show performance is on youtube www.youtube.com...

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8:51am duke:

@Doug Wonderful!
There was a lot of crossover between R&B and country back in the day.

8:53am Gary:

Hopping into the shower ... will be quick, but don't unleash any Xtreme Awesomeness w/out me!

8:53am glenn:

will gary be singing?

8:54am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
Sadly, the crossover tends to cross over mostly from marginalized to mainstream.

@Gary
Hand me the loofah and move the hell over!

8:54am Doug Schulkind:

Hi glenn!

8:56am annie:

good morning everyone!

8:56am Doug Schulkind:

Yay annie!

8:57am glenn:

wotcher?

8:57am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

Good morning to you, ndbob!

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8:58am listener james from westwood:

How do, Doug and all!

8:59am annie:

our new listener friend, pilar, had me call her this morning to remind her to log on... hope she makes it

8:59am Holly in NC:

Morining! Pretty sure that is the T.A.M.I. show. Whever I watch I feel SO sorry for the Stones having to come on afterwards...

9:00am Doug Schulkind:

Hello Listener James from Westw00t!

Greetings, Holly in NC!

Fingers x'd, annie. Good morning pilar wherever you are!

9:03am Mr C:

You engage the audience before the show?? Man..James Brown used to come out and play organ as the band warmed up and the crowd filed in. An early Doug influence.

9:04am Mr C:

And you both give the drummer some...incredible!

9:04am Doug Schulkind:

My cape is already off, Mr C!

9:10am ausmanx:

back from grim London, evening all.

9:12am Doug Schulkind:

Hey ausmanx, how's it hanging?!

9:13am Gary:

Possums are beyond good & evil!

9:14am Doug Schulkind:

PETA approved that message, Gary.

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

Alan Lomax was only 23 at the time he recorded this interviews with Jelly Roll Morton. I was still wearing short pants at 23.

9:21am Doug Schulkind:

Next up: Jelly Roll plays something from Verdi's "Il Trovatore."

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9:22am duke:

Shouldn't that song have been Opossum Was an Evil Thing

9:22am ausmanx:

stripping off the cape and jumping into the shower with Gary... things have changed since i've been gone! met up with Evan Parker in London, which was nice. his was the only gig i managed though.

9:22am Gary:

One of my poet friends worked at ACE for a while in the 90s or early 00s and I got to go in to the archive once, for a brief, thrill-packed 30-40 minutes or so.

9:23am Mr C:

This is fascinating..."..some inferior pianist.."

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9:24am listener james from westwood:

Priceless archive, this. How poor we'd have been had Lomax not gone out and done his thing.

9:25am Alex In Illinois:

Jelly Roll mentioned the horse tracks in the New Orleans area. Boozoo Chavis earned most of his living as a jockey and as a horse trainer for some of the more rural Louisiana race tracks.

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
I see where you fall on the possum/opossum divide.

9:26am Lore:

There is an interesting article with some background on Henry Truvillion available on jstor, for anyone who may wish to check it: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3814631?uid=3739832&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104227634831

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

Alex in Illinois and Lore, I oughta put you two on retainer!

9:28am Alex In Illinois:

Some of my favorite fiddle tunes are "Possum up a Gum Stump" and "'Possum up a 'Simmon Tree"

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9:31am duke:

Just read that Wingy Carpenter was a one-armed trumpet player

9:31am Gary:

When Lomax died, Dave Marsh wrote the most mean-spirited obit I've ever read, for CounterPunch. When I wrote to them with several fact-checking things that Marsh had gotten wrong (attributed to Alan things his father'd done, for instance), the CounterPunch editor called me an asshole. Marsh was upset, but a bit more of a gentleman about it. (He at least admitted he'd gotten a few things -- more than a few things, actually -- wrong. Though he still maintained that Lomax was an evil human being.

9:40am Mr C:

King Records Syd Nathan was fond of mixing and matching his country and R&B copyrights, sometimes to funny and bizarre effect: Stanley Brothers doing Hank Ballard's "Finger Poppin Time".

9:40am Alex In Illinois:

I am reluctant to judge musicians for being assholes when they are off stage, but not those in the music journalism industry when they are doing their job.

9:41am Doug Schulkind:

And Hank Ballard doing "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

9:46am Doug Schulkind:

Dear, dear Timi. Her voice sounds to be at about seven packs a days here.

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9:50am listener james from westwood:

Doug, I don't know if you've heard this show, but your 2014 premium got 2 tracks' worth of love on this new (to me at least) FMU program, Paid by the Tear, which filled in earlier this week. Lotsa lovely C&W and American folk and two--2--cuts w/ talking guitar: www.wfmu.org...

9:50am Alex In Illinois:

Rhiannon Giddens!! Of the Carolina Chocolate Drops!

9:52am Uncle Michael:

Good morning.

9:52am glenn:

{all together} good morning uncle michael!!!

9:53am Doug Schulkind:

@LJFW
I didn't catch that show. Will dive into the archive!

@Alex in Illinois
This is my first time hearing Ms. Giddens

@Uncle Michael
The Topeka topman!

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9:53am listener james from westwood:

Good Giddens!

9:54am ndbob:

Never heard that Timi song before

9:55am Doug Schulkind:

New 2 me 2, ndbob.

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9:55am listener james from westwood:

There are a couple of new/newish fill-in folks on the air signal who I've been bookmarking lately. Hoping some might score weekly slots come schedule change season.

9:56am Uncle Michael:

Who ya been hearing, James?

9:57am glenn:

oh, dan penn. he da man.

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9:57am duke:

Great set

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

Pennsylvania was named for Dan Penn as far as I can tell.

9:58am Uncle Michael:

A lot of J.J. Cale seems to come from this side of Dan Penn.

9:58am Doug Schulkind:

Calesylvania? I don't think so.

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10:02am listener james from westwood:

@UM: Samantha, Jeff Conklin (sp?), Micah, and a show under the moniker Radio BLT. Also this brandy-new program (I believe the Paid by the Tear DJ's name is Sasha?). And there's another new-ish one, Rolling Motion, who just did their 2nd fill-in, that I have to check out.

10:03am Uncle Michael:

I'll seek them out. Thanks.

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10:04am listener james from westwood:

Wouldn't have spotted Sasha had I not hit the Recent Archives page, so once again kudos to Kenzo.

10:07am Doug Schulkind:

Jeff Conklin had done a show on East Village Radio. He may be doing some fill-ins on the Drummer Stream, too.

10:10am northguineahills:

I don't believe this is on his other releases.

10:12am Uncle Michael:

Hmmm...I wonder if Jeff knows Ted Schumaker. He's of the EVR diaspora too.

10:12am Doug Schulkind:

On Pleasures of the Harbor (A&M, 1967): en.wikipedia.org...

10:13am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, northguineahills!

10:14am Webhamster Henry:

Phil Ochs and 60s WBAI - I wasn't there, but I can imagine the scene.

10:16am Uncle Michael:

Everything I know about WBAI is from either the Bob Fass documentary or from present day mishigas from my friends that are involved with Pacifica.

10:18am Doug Schulkind:

I have a number of connections to late-golden age WBAI. I grew up listening to WPFW, the Pacifica station in Washington DC. A very different vibe, but an amazing one. I owe my life in radio to the inspiration I got from WPFW.

10:20am Webhamster Henry:

The late Steve Post wrote a book called "Playing in the FM Band" about 60s-70s WBAI, which is very funny. And speaking of late WBAI DJs, my friend Peter Schmideg died suddenly last Saturday, he had a show called Oblique Strategies which I was on a few times.

10:20am Uncle Michael:

I still hear very good things (it's not dysfuctional) about WPFW from both listeners in the DC area and people steeped in the Pacifica wars.

10:21am Uncle Michael:

That's a shame, Harry. Condolences.

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10:21am βrian:

Cerulean skies over the isthmus today. Bonjour.

10:22am northguineahills:

damn, Henry.... that sucks.

10:23am Doug Schulkind:

Oh my, I didn't know Peter died.

Hallloooooo, βrian!

10:23am Webhamster Henry:

In the 80s , late WFMU DJ Citizen Kafka was on WBAI, and also ran the revived Free Music Store live music shows, which brought back a bit of the 60s/70s WBAI feel. You can get a good idea of Kafka from the Citizen Kafka/Wretched Refuse String Band shows in Irene's archives.

10:24am ndbob:

I loved Kafka on Secret Museum of the Air - once had a long, entertaining phone conversation with him

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

For a while, Kafka and Pat Conte brought Secret Museum to WFMU. The show was great great great, but Kafka was a bit too embittered at that point to really enjoy himself.

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10:28am listener james from westwood:

Sad to hear it, Henry. My condolences.

10:29am Doug Schulkind:

@Webhamster Henry
Wasn't it Peter who, for a while, did a show on WBAI reviewing porn videos?

10:30am glenn:

do you mean peter schmidt? the guy who created the oblique strategies cards with eno?

10:33am Doug Schulkind:

Yes, it was Peter Schmidt

10:34am Gary:

Super Love the Secret Museum. Didn't know there was a Kafka involved ... will hold the obvious jokes.

10:34am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! tricky souls!

10:35am Uncle Michael:

tricky soles, too

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10:35am listener james from westwood:

Really dug that "Emerald River."

10:35am Rob in SAV:

This is some hot talkover music.

10:38am βrian:

There's a commotion in your bed music.

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10:41am duke:

Sonny Ochs is on WIOX

10:41am Webhamster Henry:

Sunny Ochs: You can listen to Folk Music and Other Stuff every Friday from 2:04 pm - 4:00 pm - you'd have to cut into Hinky Dinky a little -
at wioxradio.org (which is a tiny upstate community radio station)

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

Was my talkover music too loud? Did you miss every last pithy word I uttered? Should I start over from the top?

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

I'm still trying to get the hang of this radio stuff.

10:44am Webhamster Henry:

No, the WBAI that porn reviewer was Max Schmid. Peter Schmidt was a different guy who died in 1980.

10:45am Santos L Halper:

This a new Trane release? Pharaoh?

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10:45am βrian:

Not too loud, Doug.

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

YES, Max Schmid. Funny how my mind conflated Peter Schmideg/Peter Schmidt/Max Schmid. I am getting too old for this.

@Santos L. Halper
Yes! And yes!

10:47am Doug Schulkind:

And by "funny" I mean horrifying.

10:51am Doug Schulkind:

Put yer dang headphones on, people!

10:53am Andrew Waterloo:

It's a work from home day, so this is on the good speakers.

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10:53am listener james from westwood:

Drummer's gettin' some!! Wow!!

10:56am Santos L Halper:

@Doug: no Peter Max?

10:56am Doug Schulkind:

Rashied Ali is punishing the skins, along with percussionists Robert Kenyatta, Charles Brown and Angie DeWitt.

10:57am Doug Schulkind:

@Santos L Halper
Peter Max completes the circle!

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10:57am listener james from westwood:

Chills.

10:57am The Good Speakers:

THANK YOU, Andrew Waterloo.

11:00am Doug Schulkind:

Next up, one of the great performances by bassist Scot LaFaro. Never heard before yesterday. #AmFloored

11:00am Uncle Michael:

Everyone should use the good speakers...all of the time. audioengineusa.com... (I have no financial stake in this enterprise)

11:02am Doug Schulkind:

This Coltrane concert got panned. In the Temple student newspaper, the person who OK'd the funding apologized for bringing in the show, which lost money.

11:03am Doug Schulkind:

Yeah, it just ends like that.

11:04am Santos L Halper:

Good on the hep cats at Temple who got that one over on the moneymen!

11:04am jeff g.:

As I understand it, the Coltrane family wasn't always so excited to have the Temple recording see the light of day, owing to the vocalizations.

11:05am Doug Schulkind:

HOLD THE FORT....

Hello Rob in SAV! I missed you up there [am making upward pointing motion].

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11:06am bobdc:

"The Arrival of Victor Feldman" has such an excellent cover: www.allmusic.com...

Also, people of a certain age will be pleased to know that Feldman does the electric piano solo on Steely Dan's "Black Cow."

11:08am Doug Schulkind:

@jeff g
The Coltrane family has impeded numerous vital projects. They (Alice) was no on board with the Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone for a long time before it finally got made/aired. (And Alice wasn't too keen on me re-broadcasting it, etiher. The producer, Steve Rowland, finally convinced the family that it was worth it.)

11:08am Doug Schulkind:

Thank you for the excellent intelligence, bobdc!

11:09am Santos L Halper:

Hello also to Doppelgänger Rob in SAV!

11:11am Doug Schulkind:

Rob in SAV once showed up at the studios of WFMU on a Friday morning, walked into the main control room and handed me three CDs worth of excellent talkover music options. I continue to be bowled over by that act of groovy thoughtfulness.

11:12am Carmichael:

Good day Dougie and all y'all.Someone's playing the hell out of this drum.

11:13am Doug Schulkind:

Carm!

11:14am Doug Schulkind:

Your pots and pans banger here is Jean Claude Pourtier.

11:20am lucyinbrooklyn:

brooklyn is listening...

11:22am Doug Schulkind:

Oh Lucy! So nice to see yo!

11:23am Carmichael:

Isn't it against the Musician's Credo to have more than a single "&" in a title?

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

& D&n't kn&w wh&t yo&'re t&lking &bout, Carmichael.

11:27am Uncle Michael:

I can't wait to start panning my pots.

11:27am Parq:

Joining you for the 7th reel, Doug and mates. Been running around all morning. Some AMs are like that.

11:28am Doug Schulkind:

Glad to have you aboard, Parq. Now I'll really skim the waves.

11:29am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael will be serving hinky tea and dinky crumpets over here at noon: wfmu.org...

11:31am still b/p:

I so poor, I ain't got a pot to pan in.

11:32am Doug Schulkind:

Let's start up a collection for still b/p. Drop your pots in this cup.

11:33am Santos L Halper:

@b/p: Long as you got pot to put in...

11:37am Uncle Michael:

Doug's right. We're in a state of high alert.

I hope everyone has stockpiled the appropriate provisions.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

One of my all-time singing voices, Mr. Pat Kelly.

11:39am Doug Schulkind:

Lotta Sam Cooke in Pat Kelly.

11:39am eareie:

I'm alert. Not high, though. Neither am I low.
Happy t'be listening all the same. It's Friday?

11:41am Alex In Illinois:

Does anyone remember an old Saturday Night Light sketch with Jane Curtain playing Dolly Parton and Garrett Morris Bob Marley? Parton to Marley: "I really like that REJ-ee music!"

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11:43am duke:

Aaaaah Barbara Lynn

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

Hey earrie, how the heck are ya?!

11:44am glenn:

what duke said.

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

@earrie
Actually, you just told me how you are. Dumb question.

11:46am eareie:

How the heck are YOU, Doug? Sounding excellent as ever.

11:46am ndbob:

great Barbara Lynn song there!

11:48am Parq:

Alex, yes, the premise was that it was a multi-headliner benefit concert. Rick Nelson was that week's host, and he was in the bit too. It's the sketch in which they introduced Gilda Radner's Patti Smith spoof, Candi Slyce. Man, Marley, Nelson, Radner -- what a sad thing it would be to watch that bit now.

11:48am Santos L Halper:

Maybe Jeff G will lay some more Trane on us Monday! If I can wait that long...though its kinda pricey for 2cds

11:49am Alex In Illinois:

@Uncle Michael: Thanks for the info about the W3. I need to get one or two transmitters and 3 or 4 receivers. Whenever I plug my smartphone into the Stereo in one room, and the PC into one in the other room, the streams are usually out-of-sync. This W3 thingy might be the solution.

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

James Booker is all of 15 here.

11:50am Doug Schulkind:

@Santos L Halper
Looky here: www.israbox.com...

11:51am Uncle Michael:

I think that nearly three hours in, James Brown is gritting his teeth harder than he appeared to be at the top of the show.

11:54am Doug Schulkind:

Grit and bear it, Uncle Michael.

11:56am ndbob:

excellent show Doug!

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Remember who had the big hit with this number? Don't take the Fifth on your answer!

11:56am Jeff Golick:

Not sure who else to tell, so I hope you won't mind if I name-drop here: there's a kid over at my apt now who's getting picked up by the next dad on his playdate calendar, and it's Mike D.

11:57am Parq:

Who had the hit with "Light Songs"? Btw, Doug, is that a typo? Coz they're saying "Light Sings".

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

How Beastly!

11:57am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the show, Doug.

See you all in the next room.

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11:57am listener james from westwood:

Holy cow, Jeff!

11:58am Uncle Michael:

Jeff, ask him to be on your show.

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

No, I had a brain fart, Parq. Light Sings is correct.

11:58am Parq:

Never mind first question, missed Doug's 11:56.

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11:58am listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Doug, for the Friday fun!

11:58am Santos L Halper:

@ Doug:oooh, thanks! And for a great show

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11:58am duke:

Wonderful show. Thanks

11:59am Jeff Golick:

Like John Lee, I feel good, thanks to this show! Gracias, Doug!

11:59am Gary:

Fab trax!

12:00pm C&rmichael:

Th&nks, Do&g!

12:00pm eareie:

Until next time.
Fine music wishes.

12:01pm Doug Schulkind:

eareie oh eareie! I love your lake!

L&ve you all. Thanks for hanging with me!

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12:58pm Brian in UK:

So dance, dance, dance, dance.
Teach us to be true.
Oh those Kennedy Boys.
Hello Doug, holidaying in the country to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Just bought Lili a new wedding ring as the original has split for the second time. I have not split, still here. Take care my friend.

12:59pm Doug Schulkind:

Much blessings to you, Brian and Lili!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Calvin Van Brunt	Daisies in the Loft	Music From the Ozarks (Folkways 1964)
Carl Belew	Silence and Tears	b/w I'm Long Gone (Sowder 1956)
Henry Truvillion	Possum Was an Evil Thing	Negro Work Songs and Calls (Rounder 1940)
Jelly Roll Morton	The Story of Alabama Bound Poor Alfred Wilson Miserere	Complete Library of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax (Rounder 1938)
Wingy Carpenter	Preachin' Trumpet Blues	b/w Jay McShann: Dexter Blues (Brunswick 1940)

Ralph Lamar	Don't Let Me Cross Over	b/w What I Never Had I'll Never Miss (Honor Brigade 1970)
Millie Jackson	Pick Me Up on Your Way Down	Just a Lil' Bit Country (Polydor 1981)
Timi Yuro	Opportunity to Cry	Today (Ariola 1982)
Rhiannon Giddens	The Vanishing Race	Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisted (Sony 2014)
Paul Kelly	Till I Get to My Baby's Love	Hooked, Hogtied & Collared (Warner Bros. 1974)
Dan Penn & Chuck Prophet	Heavy Duty	Country Got Soul, Volume 2 (Casual 2004)

Phil Ochs	Crucifixion	A Hero of the Game
Happy & Artie Traum	Brother Thomas	Double Back (Capitol 1971)
Ryley Walker	On the Rise	All Kinds of You (Tompkins Square 2014)
Lynn Blessing	Emerald River	Sunset Painter (Epic 1969)
Tommy Peltier (with Judee Sill)	Chariot of Astral Light	Chariot of Astral Light (Blackout 1973)
Kalika	Mina	Kalika (Zooom 1973)

John Coltrane	Leo	Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse! 1966)
Victor Feldman	Waltz	The Arrival of Victor Feldman (Contemporary 1958)
Jef Gilson	Le Massacre du Printemps	Le Massacre du Printemps (Futura 1971)

Patsy & Peggy & the Cimarons	Dog Your Woman	Trojan Presents Boss Reggae: 40 Reggae Scorchers (Trojan )
Stranger Cole	Help Wanted	b/w Glad You're Living (Duke 1969)
Wailing Souls	Mr. Fire Coal Man	b/w Version (Studio One 1978)
Nicky Thomas	Mama's Song	The Mighty Two: In Memoriam (Joe Gibbs Europe )
The Inspirations	Down in the Park	b/w Love Oh Love (Camel 1969)
Pat Kelly	How Long Will It Take	b/w Try to Remember (Gas 1969)

Barbara Lynn	(Until Then) I'll Suffer	Here Is Barbara Lynn (Atlantic 1968)
Gloria Edwards	Settled for Less	The Soul Queen of Texas: The Crazy Cajun Recordings (Edsel )
Little Booker (James Booker)	Thinking About My Baby	b/w Doing the Hambone (Imperial 1954)
Mike Williams	Something You Didn't Done	b/w You Don't Want Me Around (King 1966)
Francine King	Two Fools	b/w The Grapevine Can't Tell You (Channel "1" 1969)
The Sweet Inspirations	Light Songs	b/w This World (Atlantic 1970)

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