• Re: REVIEW - Wynonie Harris: �Night Train� - KING 4555; JULY 1952

    From Rick Schubert@21:1/5 to Roger Ford on Thu Jun 8 10:44:04 2023
    On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:53:08 GMT, [email protected] (Roger Ford) wrote:

    On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:05:58 -0700, Rick Schubert <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 18:54:02 -0700 (PDT), Bruce <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 9:48:27?PM UTC-4, Dean F. wrote:
    On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 10:37:33?PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:

    The best versions of "Night Train" are all instrumental. My three favorites are by Jimmy Forrest, the Viscounts, and James Brown.

    I don't consider the JB an instrumental.

    That's OK. You're allowed to be wrong.

    I guess so is Whitburn, it's not listed as an instrumental in his "Top Pop Singles" 12th Edition.

    in�stru�men�tal

    2. (of music) performed on instruments, with no vocals.

    Let me ask you, in the James Brown record, what "instrument" is naming all those cities, like Atlanta, Georgia and Raleigh, North Carolina?

    Whenever this discussion comes up I'm reminded of a conversation between Whitburn and Duane Eddy,
    who insisted that all his songs be listed as instrumentals, including songs such as "(Dance With
    The) Guitar Man"

    "(Dance With The) Guitar Man" was the one major Duane Eddy hit of our
    era left out of the old Strictly Instrumental Battle by consensus
    because of the extensive vocal parts

    Of course it's not an instrumental. It seems quite egotistical of Duane Eddy to claim otherwise.

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