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By O-Dub 
Eli Wilson & Jeremy Aregood: Can I Change My Mind?
From digital single (2012)
This version of Tyrone Davis’s classic comes from the production/singer duo of Eli Wilson and Jeremy Aregood. I have to admit, I was slightly skeptical at first but where the song really came together was around :55, when the the main melody comes in on keys. This definitely has a “classic era D’Angelo” vibe to it, especially in how stripped down the arrangement is; throw in those funky electric keys and you get a smooth little modern take on an old school [...]
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By O-Dub 
Dusty Springfield: Crumbs Off the Table
Girls Can’t Do What Guys Can Do
From See All Her Faces (Philips, 1972). Also on Dusty In London.
I have an inexplicable habit of constantly under-regarding Dusty’s catalog…it’s as if every time I discover a cool new track by her I try to remind myself, “this is Dusty Springfield. She’s only one of the greatest soul artists in UK history. She probably has more stuff worth checking for.” But inevitable, I forget this small little point. This LP is just the latest reminder that [...]
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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 
Bob Azzam and His Orchestra: Batucada Por Favor
From At the Club Opera (HMV, 1967)
Los Ladrones: Butta Fingas
From Montana Rusa (Giant Step, 2004)
Honestly, I have no idea what took me so long to track down a copy of the original “Batucada Por Favor.” I originally heard it on this 1998 comp from Mr. Bongo and for many years, when I was DJing in S.F., I would always keep this cut close by. But strangely, I didn’t remember to find an original copy until relatively recently (it doesn’t show [...]
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By O-Dub This would be on there right now.
(If you don’t get it, please stop reading this blog, immediately).
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 
Etta James was a singer who I always enjoyed on the periphery…in other words, I never made a concerted effort to really get that deep into her catalog but I understand, on a very basic level, that this was a Very Important Artist and not just because she sang one of the very best ballads ever sung in the history of people singing ballads. 1
So for this appreciation, I’m not going to try to pull off some “Etta James’s most important songs” post because I simply can’t claim to know this. I [...]
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By O-Dub 
I’m going to try to get a better post up soon but I did want to say that one of the things I liked about Castor is that he was one of the young Black musicians from uptown who go fascinated with Latin boogaloo and ended up recording a few of them on his debut album in 1967, including this cover of Joe Cuba’s “Bang Bang”:
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