tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217250052013-05-22T05:26:42.194+01:00Feel Itmostly vinyl, mostly a private pleasure - until now.Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.comBlogger393125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-13588568654840584632013-05-20T23:25:00.000+01:002013-05-20T23:25:49.419+01:00Arm across, down, repeat.
This one has been getting a lot of spins
at chez Darcy in recent days. A storming record that really packs a punch, and
it’s a B side.
A few years ago I featured two of Syl
Johnson’s albums he recorded for Hi (another May post – Syl is like apple
blossom it seems!). I am sure when I bought those albums back in the Seventies I
wouldn’t have known that Syl Johnson’s recording career had Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-15413728318309777572013-05-12T19:00:00.000+01:002013-05-12T19:00:25.472+01:00It's worth repeating
Slim pickings at the boots today but pleased
with this one for the princely sum of 50p.
The Masqueraders were a great vocal
harmony group that should have made it BIG.
Isaac Hayes on production here on an
album that was released in 1977. It's really only a one tracker but I've had
"Modern Day Woman" on repeat this afternoon.
The Masqueraders – Modern Day Woman 1977
This will Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-26050196076485094382013-05-10T18:39:00.000+01:002013-05-10T18:39:16.838+01:00Easy does it
Life has been fairly hectic again these
last few weeks but in amongst the general hurly burly Mrs Darce and I spent a
very relaxing few days in Faro last weekend. The plan was to go with friends,
as we usually do on these sort of jaunts, but a dodgy knee and flu respectively
meant that neither of them could travel. So while they looked forward with
dread to making an insurance claim we got Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-24719784574164882122013-04-29T23:43:00.000+01:002013-04-29T23:43:38.814+01:00Margie Alexander Babbs RIP
My love of deep soul, and particularly female
singers of the genre, led me a few years ago to the small but perfectly formed
recording catalog of Margie Alexander. Margie had only five single releases
during a thirteen year period that started in the early seventies, and they are
all well worth seeking out. She was singing in Clarence Carter’s backing band
in the late sixties and it was Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-8698163519232268732013-04-19T18:00:00.001+01:002013-04-19T18:00:29.840+01:00With a KEffortlessly moving through the genres here I present to you....
Paul McCartney's long lost dub album.
Ah! No, my mistake, it's Macka with a K.
A recent interwebby purchase for me, this is a great dub album. The back cover gives the line up as:
Piano/Organ: Glenn Adams & Mr Wire
Guitar: Rick Trater, Bobby Chung
Drums: Carlton Barrett, Tad Dawkins, Sparrow Martin
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-39945168277507934862013-04-16T23:51:00.000+01:002013-04-16T23:51:02.029+01:00Jazz business
As promised two more from my recent car boot haul. The focus this time is on Jazz.
Rita Reys hailed from The Netherlands and in 1960 was crowned Europe's First Lady Of Jazz. On this album - a rare UK 10" release offering a slimmed down version of her 1956 album The Cool Voice Of Rita Reys - she was backed by a combo led by her then husband Wes Ilcken on one side, and on the other she was Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-77201228887546963762013-04-10T13:06:00.000+01:002013-04-10T13:06:24.084+01:00Weighty business
I was going to tell you how the charity
shops have fed my vinyl habit pretty well through the winter semi-hibernation
of car boot sales. But hold the press! – yes, sharing some of my charity shop
scores with you will have to wait for another time because the boot sale season
proper is once again upon us - the sun shone at the weekend lifting the
temperature a few degrees and encouraged the Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-63204184978837882502013-03-31T20:52:00.000+01:002013-03-31T20:52:30.338+01:00Misty Eyed - Part 4
..... The Tracks of My Tears concludes.
As
1976 was coming to an end Parliament released “The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein”.
It was the follow up to “Mothership Connection” and has somehow always remained
under that album’s shadow. For my money though “Clones” is at least its equal.
The funk is looser, the feel is more laid back, horn arrangements to die for
abound, and there are some great Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-46177720788354351332013-03-27T22:49:00.000Z2013-03-27T22:49:30.644ZMisty Eyed - Part 3
......The Tracks Of My Tears continues.
The next track appeared on Lucinda
Williams’ 2001 album “Essence”. A dead slow Country waltz is not something you
will likely find very often at Souled On, or Feel It for that matter. But I
defy you not to be moved by Lucinda’s memories of her Grandmother’s house
brought into sharp focus by a final visit. Lucinda may have her roots firmly
plantedDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-40359784027755239312013-03-23T19:46:00.000Z2013-03-23T19:58:27.777ZMisty Eyed - Part 2 : Happy Birthday Chaka
......The Tracks Of My Tears continues. I have taken the liberty of playing around with the sequence of my original article (and posting two Rufus tracks so close together) because today a certain lady is 60 years old.
Happy Birthday Chaka Khan.
I
was struggling to pick just one Rufus track here. Their albums are littered
with tracks that readily induce my tears, but especially Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-72693122782921691632013-03-20T22:16:00.000Z2013-03-20T22:16:58.216ZMisty Eyed - Part 1
Feel
It’s birthday last week has made me I little nostalgic, after all seven years
is a long time in the blogging game.
The nostalgia is also tinged with a little sadness as another one of our
longstanding (or I should say hopping) family pets – Buttons the rabbit –
passed away yesterday. We estimate he was nearly 11 which is a great age for a
rabbit. He died of glorious old age, which Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-71561305287046905832013-03-13T20:41:00.000Z2013-03-13T20:41:26.281Z7
It’s time to celebrate this blog’s
birthday again. 7 years old today. I would have said “7 years young” except
that in these days of the twittering classes, smartphones and the like the blog
as an internet medium is beginning to feel a bit quaint. Are you detecting
signs of a 7 year itch? Well I think the closest I’ve come to that is by starting
another blog recently! No, at my age I’m Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-50003262814684424042013-03-08T19:16:00.000Z2013-03-08T19:16:06.598ZLet's hear it for the girls
Today is International Women's Day.
So for all the ladies all over the world here is a track for you sung by Chaka Khan (no, not that track).
And, in these days of equality, men can listen as well!.
This track is from the Rufusized album. All of Rufus' 70s albums are essential listening in my book. Chaka Khan is well known to many I'm sure, but maybe not so well known is the lady who Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-18664310336718221332013-03-04T22:39:00.001Z2013-03-04T22:39:32.052ZAn orange and plum ocean ...
This was one of two compilations I picked
up in the same charity shop last weekend. What made them completely irresistible
were their labels, and to be precise, the colour of their labels. In this case
the orange and plum of the 60s UK Atlantic label. I now own precisely three
albums that sport this particular Atlantic label. All are mono, all are soul,
and none are standard one artist Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-22696124970470434292013-02-20T23:04:00.001Z2013-02-20T23:04:50.914ZHidden depths
I caught Roy C’s “Shotgun Wedding” on the
ricochet when it hit the UK charts in 1972. I hadn’t been long into the music
thing. In those days BBC radio, and my limited pocket money, offered just about
the only opportunities to hear things. It was the heyday of the pop charts, and
with BBC Radio 1 operating a playlist it was easy to become very familiar with
the hits of the day. This would Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-38481437227608460822013-02-15T19:32:00.000Z2013-02-15T19:32:18.485ZBack of the net
Felt I had to share this one with you straightaway. This is from a charity shop trawl this afternoon. I am very pleased with my little haul (you may think I'm easily pleased). It kicked off with a hat trick of Easy/Pop albums (don't ask me why, I had a sudden inexplicable urge) - Melissa Manchester, Helen Reddy, and the Captain & Tenille! The Melissa Manchester album - Singin' - has a few Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-52686165773782438712013-02-08T19:35:00.000Z2013-02-08T19:35:03.096ZAn old friend... and a surprise
The concentration of vinyl in our
upstairs spare room (the “little box room” that used to be our daughter’s
bedroom) has been an increasing worry recently. Will the floor stand it? Isn’t it
starting to slope? I know we’ve had subsidence in the past, but is it the
weight of all the shelving and vinyl that has caused those cracks to reappear?
So, with the blessing of Mrs Darce, a new
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-71816910248751363222013-01-31T23:41:00.000Z2013-01-31T23:44:13.929ZRelax
It’s been busy at work, and with the
blustery weather as well the whole week has felt like a bit of a whirl.
I need something to relax me. This one from
The Contours fits the bill perfectly.
Most of The Contours output that I am
familiar with was in the classic early Motown uptempo mould but this track from
late ‘64, the B side to “Can You Jerk Like Me”, is a beautiful ballad. It Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-30420919257628507202013-01-25T21:25:00.000Z2013-01-25T21:25:20.467ZAnd then there were two :(
A sad household again today. We have been
here before. Today we had to have another one of our cats put to sleep.
Lucy was about 15, a lap cat, and another
character. She was very vocal and we often felt like we were having conversations
with her. She also liked to take her place at the table when we were having
dinner, resting her chin on the edge patiently waiting for some scraps.
Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-70916692464905849022013-01-18T17:35:00.000Z2013-01-18T17:35:35.799ZBye bye to another golden age?
Here in the UK one of the favourite moans
is the price of posting a letter. Last year there was a particularly big hike,
but it is nothing in comparison to the rise about to happen in the US. I don’t
know the details across the board but it’s the change in the UK equivalent of “Small
Packet” postage cost that is really going to hurt. It seems the cost of posting
a single 45 from the US to Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-76600048579902589192013-01-13T23:23:00.000Z2013-01-13T23:23:34.688ZSimples...
A copy of “The Beat Goes On And On” by Ripple has lived in
one of my Schweppes boxes since I bought it as a new release back in ’78.
Ripple
was another manufactured name fronting a piece of irresistible Salsoul studio
produced Disco goodness. At least that is what I had always thought.
… or maybe not.
More recently I have learned that Ripple
were a Michigan based multi-racialDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-67695598008956193192013-01-06T22:08:00.002Z2013-01-06T22:08:35.343ZAin't that peculiar
New year, new plan. Well, an old plan,
actually.
When Feel It was born, nearly seven years
ago now(!), I never intended for it to feature exclusively
soul/funk/reggae/jazz, but that’s the way it's turned out. For some time now I
have again been thinking of featuring other musical genres and styles (lord
knows I pick up enough other “stuff” at the boot sales and charity shops
nowadays). But Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-36260739748766842422012-12-31T20:37:00.001Z2012-12-31T20:38:09.168ZHave a good one
Our daughter has been laid low since Xmas Eve with something flu like so we will be staying in to keep her company tonight. No pot and pan bashing for us this year, we will be seeing in the new year with our feet up watching Jools and his Hootenanny - including Bobby Womack and Betty LaVette, and our Ruby of course.
A happy birthday to me, I'm 10 this year (: 2x5 :)
A Happy New Year to allDarcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-26769912216680310642012-12-28T20:38:00.000Z2012-12-28T20:42:01.610ZPK: a kindred spirit
Hang on - it's Friday. Holiday time always throws me. Hope you had/are having a good one.
The eagle eyed among you may notice that the initials PK appear on the label of this record. The same initials appeared on the Cimarons 45 I featured a few days ago, although that would have been almost impossible to spot.
The holidays are allowing me to catch up with records I picked up out in the Darcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374469353415719429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21725005.post-86140470228603522022012-12-24T15:31:00.001Z2012-12-24T15:31:27.396ZDoor #24
And so the final door opens at this year's Feel It Advent...ure. Not a Santa or bauble in sight but I hope you have enjoyed the daily tunes this month. At least the label is red today!
To the regulars and those just passing through I wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays. I hope it's a real humdinger for you.
J.J. Barnes - Real Humdinger 1966
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