What is your favourite song from STAX records?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Psychomodo, Nov 8, 2022.

  1. Reid Smith

    Reid Smith Forum Resident

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    Yes it is a great song and there is another song that borrowed a lot from Big Bird..Savoy Brown must have liked it to. I remember buying the Savoy Brown album this was one and thinking,this song sounds familiar :)
     
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  2. bibi50

    bibi50 Forum Resident

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    When something is wrong with my baby - Otis Redding with Carla Thomas (all the lp is a must)
    Tell it like it is - Aaron Neville / ......... -"-
     
  3. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    Johnny Taylor and the band taking Jonny Mercer & Harold Arlen's "Blues in the Night" down home, the early albums are full of unexpected gems like this, it's why I think the essence of Stax is in the album filler and B-sides, not the hits as great as they are. This album also has selections written by Herbie Hancock and Merle Travis, all given the Stax treatment.
     
  4. pseudopod

    pseudopod Dig Yourself

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    "Make It Me" is great. I first heard it on the Complete Singles 1959-1968 box set. I also really liked "I'm Going Home" by Prince Conley, "Don't Be Afraid Of Love" by Oscar Mack, "Please Return To Me" by The Fleets, "Why Should I Suffer With The Blues" by The Canes and "In The Twilight Zone" by The Astors as songs I hadn't known before the set.
     
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  5. Psychomodo

    Psychomodo Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Yes but it was recorded at Stax studios and the regular Stax guys (Cropper, Dunn, Hayes...) were the ones who played on it, although it's true that, technically, it is not a Stax song.
     
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  6. danasgoodstuff

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    Written by Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd, so to me it is a Stax song that happened to come out on Atlantic.
     
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  7. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    A really good album. The Japanese looking (a lot of them were actually manufactured in Europe) set of CD reissues of loads this stuff from a few years ago were a godsend! Loads of albums that are very hard to find in the UK available very cheap, just simple reissues with mostly good mastering. I bought loads of them, probably the majority.
     
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  8. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    William Bell doing John D. Loudermilk's "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" This could only be Stax, even American or Muscle Shoals would've been decidedly different.
     
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  9. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    I think I have a Japanese LP reissue, my collection is a mishmash of originals and various reissue series.
     
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  10. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    'I'll Take You There' by The Staple Singers is a great groove.
     
  11. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    It all crosses over with Stax and Atlantic. Everything about some of the best Wilson Pickett records is Stax apart from the record label.
     
  12. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    I do have some nice original Stax and Atlantic LPs, but not loads. They're difficult to find in the first place, then they're usually well played and worn out and the mastering is mediocre on a lot of the UK pressings for some reason. Because of all that most of this music I have on CD.
     
  13. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    It's a great record, but it was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio by their regular session players, so to some it's not really Stax.
     
  14. CliffL

    CliffL Forum Resident

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    William Bell wrote the blues classic "Born Under A Bad Sign", in the pre-internet era I came across a promo 45 of his version on Stax...great song! The most famous version, by Albert King is also on Stax.

     
  15. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    Albert King, Born Under a Bad Sign (Wm. Bell & Booker T. Jones)
     
  16. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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    so i can post Atlantic as well?

    Enterprise makes it difficult enough

    :D
     
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  17. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    Yeah, you can even include Volt!

    Has to be recorded at Stax though. :)
     
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  18. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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    this makes my day to find the label is Stax

     
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  19. Dylancat

    Dylancat Forum Resident

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    true that.
    But the thread title says STAX records….
    The record - the physical object with the hole in the middle - says Atlantic…
    So…
    not a STAX record…
    Jus’ saying…
    Lol
     
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  20. ducksdeluxe

    ducksdeluxe A voice in the wilderness.

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    This one's worse. Same guy, probably same recording session. I can't go beyond 15 seconds of this. Absolutely brutal.

     
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  21. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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  22. Dartman

    Dartman Stones Fan

    Same here. I have great memories of listening to it in my fathers car as a young lad.
     
  23. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

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    Great record, but recorded at Malaco in Jackson, MS with their players, same session as King Floyd's "Grove Me". To me where and with whom is more important than the name on the label, YMMV.
     
  24. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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    okay, the whole album

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  25. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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    survey sez!!!

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