#60s blues

[thegroovywitch]

Jimmy Page’s long lost jam session with one of blues’ greats

While looking for rare Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin records to add to my collection, I stumbled upon an album containing recordings from a lesser known jam session, having taken place during Jimmy’s session musician days in early 1965.

The album was first released in 1972 in France, then on the Springboard label in 1975 to capitalize on Led Zeppelin’s unprecedented popularity at the time. It features tracks from a session Jimmy Page did with Sonny Boy Williamson just before Sonny Boy left England for the very last time.

While some sources say the sessions took place in April 1964, they actually seem to have taken place on January 28, 1965 at IBC Studios. The musicians were:

• Jimmy Page: guitar

• Brian Auger: organ

• Ricky Brown: bass

• Mickey Waller: drums

• Joe Harriot & Alan Skidmore: saxes

There are some quotes from Mickey Waller (interviewed by Chris Welch) and some other info on the record in Bob Brunning’s Blues: The British Connection (earlier published as Blues in Britain).

There is also a more recently released 2CD edition of Sonny Boy Williamson in Britain containing all the sessions done by Williamson during his last stay in the country, including The Yardbirds, The Animals and the Jimmy Page/Brian Auger session.

Waller says: “We started at 10.00 am and it was all done by 1.00 pm. Also it was done completely live: there were no overdubs. We all sat in a circle and played.”

Sonny Boy got drunk, and his erratic sense of timing gave the musicians some trouble.

Pictured above:

pic 1: 1972 original pressing from France

pic 2: 1975 international pressing

pic 3: 1975 US pressing

pic 4: 1982 international pressing

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[um-ithinksomebodyjust]

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[mycosylivingroom]

@whitehairedyouth

[frenchnewwaves]

LDR for interview magazine (her new song A&W out now!)

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

Blues musician Taj Mahal for the artist thing

Anon- Taj Mahal

He was at the Concert For George right?? Okay, no he wasn't ;-;

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His name makes you think he was a Ravi Shankar kind of guy

Typical blues, what to say-

His harmonica sounds like on Zep's When The Levee Breaks 🤌🏻

'Taj Mahal' from '68 has a GREAT opener

Sounds like a Little Richard finding his inner bluesy side

Luv the bass

^ groovy 👌🏻

Wait- I wasn't wrong with that concert -> he was at the Rock and Roll circus

Have to check this out

Nicee cowboyy look !!

Statesboro Blues sounds exactly like something the Beatles made... I just don't know what!! (Revolution 1 ??) Whatever it is, luv it

I know n o t h i n g bout slide guitar!! And none of these riffs ;-;

All of these genre songs sound WAY TOO SIMILAR

^maybe cuz I don't listen to enough REAL 60s blues. Only Delta Blues 🛐 Robert Johnson

^till now

Either, I had too much Cream and Gallagher in my life or I missed something

Great musicc to start the day with

Note: thanks anon, for sending so many recommendations 🧡

[legendarytragedynacho]

Janis Joplin in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel. 1969

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling 1973

"Hooked on a Feeling" is a 1968 pop song, written by Mark James and originally performed by B.J. Thomas. Thomas's version featured the sound of the electric sitar (played by Reggie Young) and reached No. 5 in 1969 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1973, the Swedish poprock group Blue Swede did a cover version, which included the ooga chaka introduction from a 1971 cover by Jonathan King. King had heard Johnny Preston's "Running Bear", which was the inspiration for the ooga chaka chant. This version reached number one in the US in 1974.

In 1992, Blue Swede's recording was featured on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's debut feature Reservoir Dogs.

In the mid-90's, the Dancing Baby "sk_baby.max" model became one of the first viral memes. The animation was also shown on several episodes of the 1998 legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal as a recurring hallucination, suggesting a metaphor for the ticking of Ally's biological clock, and was accompanied by Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling". Various commercial advertisements presented the Dancing Baby animation to international markets continuing the mainstream media attention. This particular manifestation of the video, bound to the song, is widely distributed and referred to as the "Ooga Chaka Baby", further cementing the scene in pop culture history.

The 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy, which featured the brass fanfare and title lyrics of the Blue Swede cover version prominently in its trailers and theatrical release, resulted in a significant spike in sales for the recording; the film's soundtrack reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart in August 2014. The song was also featured in the teaser trailer for the 2017 sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.

Blue Swede's frontman is singer/actor Björn Skifs. He did the Swedish dub of Woody in the first two Toy Story movies, as well as singing in stead of Phil Collins in the Swedish dub of Brother Bear.

"Hooked on a Feeling" received a total of 81,9% yes votes!

[60s-music-tourney]

Doing a trial run of the 60s music bracket that will occur after this one ends

[shamansbluezz]

jim morrison by linda mccartney c. 1967

[isogenderskitty]

[unknownn-girl]

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lizzy being relatable as always

[thegroovywitch]

Janis Joplin enjoying her beer at the Folk Rock Festival in San Jose, California | 1968

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

imagine being high off your ass in 1964 and turning the radio on and you hear house of the rising sun by the animals for the first time. my soul would leave my body id fucking die

[aurora-doll-333]

those summer night seem long ago🪽✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡

[fawndollita]

little ghost, blonde hair with lemonade tea there's much to learn and so much to see.. 👼🏼˚₊♱