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January 25, 2021

20,000 vinyl LPs 268: Leadbelly's Last Sessions ~ Volume Two

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photo by James Chapelle 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


A couple of days ago was the birthday of Huddie Ledbetter, AKA Lead Belly. He was born on January 23, 1888, on a plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. He was an American folk and blues singer, musician and songwriter notable for his strong vocals and virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar. He also played the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, and windjammer, a type of accordion.  
 
 
 
He was also known for the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of Goodnight, Irene, Midnight Special, Cotton Fields, and Boll Weevil.      
 
Lead Belly's songs covered a wide range of genres and topics including gospel music; blues about women, liquor, prison life, and racism; and folk songs about cowboys, prison, work, sailors, cattle herding, and dancing. He also wrote songs about people in the news, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Jean Harlow, Jack Johnson, the Scottsboro Boys and Howard Hughes. Lead Belly was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.          
 
He sang a great cover of the House Of The Rising Sun, however, it sounds nothing like the Eric Burdon & The Animals version.     
 
In 2015, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, was released. It is a five-disc set that is the first comprehensive overview of this monumental, sprawling career. The compilation, a follow-up to a 2012 Grammy-winning Woody Guthrie boxed set, includes 108 songs (most taken from the Folkways archives), 16 of them previously unreleased. One of the discs comes from a series of radio shows that Lead Belly made for WNYC in the 1940s, which have seldom been heard since. Mr. Guthrie recommended him for the show, telling the producer that of all the living folk singers he’d ever seen, “Lead Belly is ahead of them all.”                 
 
This is the two record set that was recorded (with Vol 1) over 3 nights in September/October 1948 in the New York City apartment of Frederic Ramsey Jr. Apart for a few minor edits, the sessions are presented as recorded, including Leadbelly's introductions and general between-song chat. It was Lead Belly's only commercial recordings on magnetic tape. The set includes a booklet with liner notes by Ramsey.  


photos by James Chapelle 
photo of album booklet by Styrous®







photos by James Chapelle 
photo of album booklet by Styrous®






photos by James Chapelle 
photo of album booklet by Styrous®














photos by James Chapelle 
photo of album booklet by Styrous®







vinyl LP record labels, side 1 & 2
photos by Styrous®





vinyl LP record labels, side 3 & 4
photos by Styrous®



   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1     Midnight Special    
A2     Boll Weevil Blues    
A3     Careless Love    
A4     Easy Rider    
A5     Cry For Me    
A6     Ain't Going' Drink No More    
A7     Birmingham Jail    
A8     Old Riley    
A9     Julie Ann Johnson    
A10   It's Tight Like That    

Side 2:

B1     4, 5, And 9    
B2     Good Morning Babe    
B3     Jail House Blues    
B4     Well You Know I Had To Do It    
B5     Irene    
B6     Story Of The 25 Cent Dude    
B7     How Come You Do Me Like You Do Do Do    
B8     Hello Central, Give Me Long Distance Phone    
B9     The Hesitation Blues    
B10    I'll Be Down On The Last Bread Wagon    

Side 3:

C1     Springtime In The Rockies    
C2     Chinatown    
C3     Rock Island Line    
C4     Backwater Blues    
C5     Sweet Mary    
C6     Irene    
C7     Easy, Mr Tom    
C8     In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down    
C9     I'm Alone Because I Love You    
C10   House Of The Rising Sun    
C11   Mary Don't You Weep And Don't You Moan

Side 4:

D1     Talk About Fannin Street    
D2     Fannin Street    
D3     Sugared Beer    
D4     Didn't Old John Cross The Water    
D5     Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out    
D6     Bully Of The Town    
D7     Sweet Jenny Lee    
D8     Yellow Gal    
D9     He Was The Man    
D10   We're In The Same Boat, Brother    
D11   Leaving Blues    

Companies, etc.

    Copyright (c) – Folkways Records & Service Corp.
    Pressed By – Plastylite

Credits:

    Liner Notes – Frederic Ramsey Jr.
    Liner Notes [Production Notes] – Moses Asch
    Photography By – James Chapelle
    Vocals – Martha Ledbetter (tracks: C5, C6, C10, C11, D10)
    Vocals, Guitar – Huddie Ledbetter

Notes:

Recorded (with Vol 1) over 3 nights in September/October 1948 in the NYC apartment of Frederic Ramsey Jr. Apart for a few minor edits, the sessions are presented as recorded, including Leadbelly's often illuminating introductions and general between-song chat.
Includes leaflet "Leadbelly's Last Sessions" on black background and inlay folder "Leadbelly's Last Sessions" for FP 2941 and FP 2942 (on white background).

FP 242 on spine of box
FP 2942 on labels
 
Barcode and Other Identifiers

   Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched, [Plastylite Ear] stamped): FA2942Ax ⨀ MK [Plastylite Ear]
   Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped, 2942B 3T etched): FP 242 B [Plastylite Ear] PB 3D1 2942B 3T
   Matrix / Runout (Side C runout stamped, 3T etched): FP2942 C [Plastylite Ear] PD 3D20 3T
   Matrix / Runout (Side D runout stamped): [Plastylite Ear] FR2942 D PB
 
Leadbelly ‎– Leadbelly's Last Sessions Volume Two
Label: Folkways Records ‎– FP 242, Folkways Records ‎– FP 2942
Format: Box Set, Album 2 × Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1953
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Folk
 
 

         
Viewfinder links:        
        
The Animals        
Lead Belly         
Eric Burdon               
Woody Guthrie        
Jean Harlow        
Adolph Hitler        
Howard Hughes        
        
Net links:        
        
Folkways ~ Lead Belly's Last Sessions         
NY Times ~ Lead Belly Has a Smithsonian Moment        
Washington Post ~ Lead Belly, from sharecropper & prisoner to iconic voice    
        
YouTube links:         
        
 Huddie Ledbetter ~     
      Boll Weevil Blues         
      Easy Rider          
      Midnight Special        
      
      
      
 
         
"No white man ever had the blues."  
                     ~ Lead Belly
        
         
        
        
        
        
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February 14, 2018

Santa Esmeralda articles/mentions

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Santa Esmeralda is a U.S./French Disco group[1] formed in the 1970s; perhaps best known for their hit disco remakes of the 1960s hits "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "House of the Rising Sun".         

Viewfinder links:    
 
Casablanca Records ~ Disco Daze 3  
Eric Burdon & The Animals      
The Skatt Brothers - Disco Daze    
  
 
  
  

 
Santa Esmeralda - 1977  
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December 8, 2014

101 Reel-to-Reel Tapes 86: Eric Burdon & The Animals ~ Winds of Change & San Franciscan Nights

Eric Burdon & The Animals ~ Winds of Chnnge    
reel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous®  



In addition to my vinyl LP record collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes as well. This is an entry about one of them that will be for sale on eBay (see link below) in January of 2015. Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.

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Winds of Chnnge is an album released in 1967 by Eric Burdon & The Animals. It contains one of my all time favorite songs, San Franciscan Nights. I remember when it came out, I was in my late twenties and just about to have an experience that would devastate my life but I didn't know it at the time; I was in love and the glory that was San Francisco in those years was completely captured in the feeling, if not the message of the song.

reel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous®  



In spite of it's anti-war lyrics and having been written in the spring; San Franciscan Nights has the sensual feeling of the city in the sixties in the autumn when the days are hot and the nights warm; the still air is filled with the scent of flowers and romance is everywhere. It was a pleasure to experience those warm, voluptuous nights and I'll always treasure them.

The song was composed by Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, and Danny McCulloch. It was written as a protest song against the Vietnam War. It opens with the Dragnet theme followed by a spoken word dedication by Burdon, "To the city and people of San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful and so is their city." And it was so true; we didn't know how beautiful it and we were. It's only in looking back that we can fully understand and appreciate what we had.

San Franciscan Nights was the band's biggest hit; It reached a peak position of number 1 on the Canadian RPM charts, number 9 on the U.S. pop singles chart, and number 7 on the UK pop singles chart. 




The Animals were a British band of the 1960s, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced front man Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic No.1 hit single, The House of the Rising Sun, as well as by hits such as We Gotta Get out of This Place, It's My Life, I'm Crying and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (during the Disco Craze, Santa Esmeralda did a sensational cover of it).




The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-oriented album material. They were known in the US as part of the British Invasion.



reel-to-reel tape box detail
detail photo by Styrous®  


The original Animals, broke up in 1966 and the band on this album was entirely new except for lead singer Eric Burdon and drummer Barry Jenkins, who joined the original lineup when John Steel left in February 1966. With the new band, featuring guitarist Vic Briggs, bassist Danny McCulloch and electric violinist John Weider, Burdon began to move from the gritty blues sound of the original mid-1960s group into psychedelic music.













The Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2003, the band's version of The House of the Rising Sun ranked No. 123 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Their 1965 hit single We Gotta Get out of This Place was ranked No. 233 on the same list. Both songs are included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.







Track listing

All songs written by Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, and Danny McCulloch, except where noted.

Side 1

  1. "Winds of Change" (4:00)
  2. "Poem by the Sea" (2:15)
  3. "Paint It, Black" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) (6:00)
  4. "The Black Plague" (6:05)
  5. "Yes I Am Experienced" (3:40)

Side 2

  1. "San Franciscan Nights" (3:24)
  2. "Man - Woman" (5:25)
  3. "Hotel Hell" (4:53)
  4. "Good Times" (2:50)
  5. "Anything" (3:20)
  6. "It's All Meat" (2:05)

Personnel


Released September 1967
Recorded March [1967] at TTG Studios in Los Angeles
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 44:29
Label MGM
Producer Tom Wilson

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