#Lowell Fulsom

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Tracklist

01. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Intro 02. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) 03. Sally Fletcher - White Christmas 04. Dina Washington - Ole Santa 05. James Brown - Santa Claus, Santa Claus 06. Brook Benton - Soul Santa 07. Charles Brown - Christmas Blues 08. Binky Griptite & The Dee Kays - Stoned Soul Christmas 09. Lowell Fulsom - I Wanna Spend Christmas With You 10. Glenna Bell - Be My Valentine On Christmas 11. Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City 12. Amos Milburn with Charles Brown - Christmas Comes But Once A Year 13. Herb Alpert - Let It Snow 14. Winston Groovy - Merry Christmas 15. The Granville Williams Orchestra - Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town 16. Billy May - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo 17. Pearl Bailey - Jingle Bells Cha, Cha, Cha 18. Four Imperials - Santa's Got A Coup de Ville 19. Beginning Of The End - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas 20. Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Christmas 21. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues 22. Vernon Garrett with Sir Stan & The Counts - Christmas Groove 23. Funk Machine - Soul Santa 24. Harvey Avenue Band - Let's Get Together For Christmas 25. Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne 26. Jimmy Jules & Nuclear Soul System - Christmas Done Got Funky 27. The Staples Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? 28. James Brown - Merry Christmas Baby 29. Freddy King - Christmas Tears 30. William Clarke - Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus 31. Lightning Hopkins - Santa Baby 32. Carey Bell - Christmas Train

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Otis Redding & Carla Thomas: “Tramp” German 7″ (1967)

Omega WUSB spun Otis Redding & Carla Thomas’ lead-off single from their duet covers album King & Queen (1967) for one of last Summer’s bonus one-hour shows. We can’t think of a nastier song from the Sixties and Thomas really took Redding to the trash in a take from Lowell Fulsom’s 1967 original (which was originally a solo). Putting more chips on the stack were producer Isaac Hayes and The Booker T & The M.G.’s who became the backing band for this #2 single on the Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles and #26 out of the Hot 100. This was one of ten songs that comprised King & Queen which took only six days to record and that album hit #5 on Billboards Hot R&B Albums chart.

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History of Club Handy

Hey! While writing Milk & Honey I’ve encountered more information than I know what to do with, so I thought I’d share some of my findings on one of the places the story takes place the most, just in case some of y’all were curious.

So anyways, here’s the history of Club Handy

The building was originally built in the 1890′s and turned into a Battier Drug’s store (very right side of pic), until being purchase by a man named Abe Plough (who was born in Tupelo, MS before moving to Memphis. So weird. Anyway), who turned it into Pantaze Drug Store.

In 1944, a man named Andrew ‘Sunbeam’ Mitchell (above) purchased the top two floors. The building was run by him and his wife Ernestine, and together they created the Domino Lounge which occupied the second floor of the building. Many black musicians would perform at the Domino Lounge on their way through the Chitlin Circuit (Which, named after the food, is a variety of venues throughout the U.S. that accepted colored acts to perform during the segregation era. So, basically it was a map). But many of the musicians that performed at the Domino Lounge weren’t allowed to stay in the white-only hotels surrounding the area, which led Sunbeam to turn the top floor into Hotel Mitchell. He and his wife were well known for their generosity (and chili) and housed many struggling musicians who would perform in exchange for a room and food, including Little Richard, who stayed at Hotel Mitchell for weeks while saving up money.

In 1945, Mitchell employed a house band and dancing girls (the Mitchellettes) and turned the Domino Lounge into Club Handy with Little Junior Parker, Bobby Bland, and B.B. King(I believe pic below is him with Sunbeam btw) being regular performers, and many other famous musicians that would perform there as well. Elvis would perform here early in his career and saw a performance by Lowell Fulsom there.

Sunbeam also owned other clubs like Club Ebony (’The Hippodrome’), and Club Paradise, which both became very successful, Club Paradise being the largest nightclub in Memphis during it’s time.

Today, the building of Club Handy is still alive and well, now occupied as bar and restaurant ‘Wet Willies’.

So, yeah, hope you guys find this interesting!

(I don’t own any of the photos)

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lowell fulsom -- i'm a drifter

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1967 HITS ARCHIVE: Tramp - Lowell Fulsom (mono 45)

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I'm Sinking - Lowell Fulsom ‎(Make A Little Love / I'm Sinking, 1967)

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Lowell Fulsom “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?” 1969

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Lowell Fulson - “Sleeper” Jewel Spotlights the Blues, Volume 1 Song released in 1969. Compilation released in 1994.

Diverse bluesman Lowell Fulson is one of the most important artists to come out of the California blues scene. Inducted in to both the Blues and R&B hall of fame, his career spanned from the 1940s to 1999, when he died. Though his hits seemed to dry up in the 70s, he received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for his 1995 album, Them Update Blues. When he migrated from his home of Oklahoma to California in the 40s he formed a band that included Ray Charles and legendary tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. 

This song finds Fulson towards the middle of his career on Louisiana label Jewel Records with a nice mid-tempo funky blues song. While the song has a nice funky bass and guitar with an abundance of horn stabs, Fulson’s smooth yelling vocal style is what shines along with his guitar solo on the bridge as well as his guitar work at the abrupt ending.

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NEW MIX: The Beatles Funk Orchestra FINALE

Here's the Finale from The Beatles Funk Orchestra set, over a Hour of Beatles covers, the culmination of a 12 Hour setlist over approx 5 years, this time out there's only a single track appearance and 7 tracks new to The Beatles Funk Orchestra roster, sourced as far as the US, Canada, Germany, Holland, France and various parts of the UK to bring you the final instalment.

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The Beatles Funk Orchestra FINALE

tracklist:

Kim Weston - Eleanor Rigby

Roland Kirk - And I Love Her

The Neighborhood - She Said, She Said

Nick Ingman - Come Together

The Spacemen - Nowhere Man

Ramsey Lewis - Sexy Sadie

Mae West - Day Tripper

Synthesonic Sounds - Help!

Lowell Fulsom - Why Don’t We Do It in The Road?

David Snell - Michelle

Dillinger - Taxman

Copper Plated Inegrated Circuit - Hey Jude

Amen Corner - Get Back

Strings For Pleasure - Norwegian Wood

Mark Murphy - She Loves You

Living Guitars - Baby, You’re A Rich man

Donald Height - Don’t Let Me Down

Valiant Orchestra - Here Comes the Sun

Unknown Artist - Can’t Buy Me Love

Monty Alexander - Something

The Gisha Brothers - World Without Love

The Carnaby Group - Paperback Writer

Billy Pepper & The Pepperpots - I Saw Her Standing There

Sarah Vaughan - Blackbird

The Ravers - No Reply

John Deen & Trakk - Hey Bulldog

Zebra - Helter Skelter

(76:00mins)

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Otis Redding & Carla Thomas: “Tramp”, King & Queen (1968)

At long last - another obligatory gambling post, this time featuring the King and Queen of Hearts (Otis Redding and Carla Thomas). King & Queen feature eleven songs, ten which are covers with the exception of one, “Ohh Otis, Ooh Carla”. All’s fine on the album until arriving at the crown jewel “Tramp”, a take on Lowell Fulsom’s 1967 original and wow does Thomas embarrass the living daylights out of poor Redding! She tears and criticizes him to shreds with such nastiness and her high standards, leaving her sidecar co-talent on the defense and hurting. Judges give Queen Thomas a TKO in the third round.

But why are we really here? Rap legends Salt-N-Pepa, Nice & Smooth, Stetsasonic, House Of Pain & Pete Rock, Grand Puba, Naughty By Nature, Slick Rick, The Beatnuts, Lord Finesse and notably The Wu-Tang Clan take a nugget on the groovy soul-funk number for their own sampling purposes.

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Lowell Fulsom “Talkin’ Woman“

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Isis Of March

Next on the shelf is an mp3 collection of Isis. I’ve blogged about Isis before so check that out. I recently watched Some Like It Hot, which includes an all-female swing band. No matter how musically inventive or competent such bands were they were always considered novelty acts not serious swing bands. Such was the case of Isis. The market wasn’t open to an all-female version of Chicago. Women…