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
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 / ......... -"-
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.
"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.
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.
Written by Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd, so to me it is a Stax song that happened to come out on Atlantic.
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.
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.
I think I have a Japanese LP reissue, my collection is a mishmash of originals and various reissue series.
It all crosses over with Stax and Atlantic. Everything about some of the best Wilson Pickett records is Stax apart from the record label.
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.
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.
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.
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
This one's worse. Same guy, probably same recording session. I can't go beyond 15 seconds of this. Absolutely brutal.
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.