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By O-Dub 
Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side Of Stax 1968 – 1974
Light in the Attic created this 7″ reissue set for Record Store Day and it’s a very cool way to 1) pay tribute to one of the greatest labels in soul history and 2) break true fanatics off with 10 reissued 7″ singles, ranging from some of their better know hits (“BLind Alley”) to lesser known gems (“Them Hot Pants”). Killer packaging and a really impressive set of liner notes that features testimonials from Jim Stewart, Al Bell and others).1 I recently rapped with Light in [...]
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By O-Dub 
The C.O.D.’s: Pretty Baby
From 7″ (Kellmac, 1965)
Ann Sexton: Have A Little Mercy
From 7″ (Seventy-Seven, 1973). Also on Anthology.
Lionel Robinson: Steppin’ Out (8-Bar Intro Edit)
Steppin’ Out (instrumental)
From 7″ (Knight, 1971)
The T.S.U. Tornadoes: Got To Get Through To You
From 7″ (Atlantic, 1969). Also on One Flight Too Many.
A few recent 7″s that have stuck in heavy rotation for me…
I first heard “Pretty Baby” by the C.O.D.’s on a deep soul mix years ago but had largely forgotten about it until [...]
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By O-Dub 
The Darling Dears: And I Love You
From 7″ (Flower City/Culture of Sound, 1972/2012)
I first heard about the Darling Dears 7″ on Soulstrut in 2010 and Matthew Africa recently did a nice write-up on his blog where he describes the sound of the group as “airy female harmonies set against a wall of sludgy funk and heavy drums,” which just about sums it up. A really awesome single and expensively obscure out the wazoo.
By sheer coincidence, two different labels have reissued it, basically at the same time, both of which followed perfectly legit [...]
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By O-Dub 
David Byrd is the artist and graphic designer behind this very cool 45 logo poster that I directed people to a few weeks ago; I’ve rare seen such positive response before for anything and I thought I’d talk to the Byrd to see where the idea came from and how he put it together.
The Sidebar #25: David Byrd
Music used in the podcast: People Under the Stair’s “43 Labels I Like”
As a bonus, here’s a few of Byrd’s favorite labels and songs released on them:
The Wallace [...]
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By O-Dub 
Alfredo Linares y su Salsa Star: Baila Montuno
From 7″ (Caliente, 1973)
This appears on Linares’s 1973 Sensacionales! album but I didn’t catch wind of it until I picked it up on 7″ first. I’m a huge fan of Linares’s work and so I was pleased and a bit stunned to realize that, unless I’m totally off-base, this is a cover of Bobby Matos’s “Nadie Baila Como Yo” (from his seminal My Latin Soul album of the mid/late ’60s). Matos isn’t credited (not an unusual happenstance) but certainly, there’s more than enough musical [...]
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By O-Dub 
So…this meme was making the rounds (again) on Facebook in recent weeks and I went back to check what the #1 song was during my birth week in 1972 and it was Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, Naturally.”
By sheer coincidence, I had just picked up a Spanish-language version of the song from Amoeba the other week (and believe me when I say: I very rarely find much by way of good used records from Amoeba). It’s on a 7″ EP of four songs, from a band that I think is Guatemalan in origin:
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By O-Dub 
Sarah Vaughn: Bye Bye
From 7″ (Mercury, 1964)
James Royal: House of Jack
From 7″ (CBS Germany, 1969)
Mark Martin: In the Good Old Topless Time
From 7″ (TWR, 1968)
I previously wrote about “instrumentals-made-into-vocal” covers in 2010, and now have three more to add into the mix.
Sarah Vaughn’s “Bye Bye” obviously riffs on Mancini’s hugely famous “Peter Gunn Theme”. I’m on the fence with this one…you don’t really need to throw vocals on one of the best frickin’ t.v. themes of all time but then again: [...]
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By O-Dub 
Raymond Winnfield: Things Could Be Better
From 7″ (Fordom, 196?). Also on Funky Funky New Orleans 5.
I picked this up on my last trip to the Groove Merchant, in November. The track itself would have been enough to draw my attention…like Funky16Corners described it: “downtempo Crescent City funk.” Indeed, the instrumental version of this appears as the flipside to Ernie and the Top Notes’ funk classic, “Dap Walk” but to me, Winnfield’s vocal version is considerably superior (maybe I just have a bias against the overuse of sax-as-vocal-replacement). Indeed, [...]
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