Ten fave unreleased tracks chosen from my yearly Favorites lists
Today………from 1962
THE BEACH BOYS – CINDY OH CINDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtgpHOwKvm0
The song (adapted from an old sea shanty) came to prominence in 1956
when it charted Top 10
in a version by Vince Martin & The Tarriers (the latter being a folk
group featuring Erik Darling
and Alan Arkin) who later also had a big hit with “The Banana Boat
Song”, “Cindy…” was also
covered---again in a Top 10 version---by Eddie Fisher (likely the song
by him that would probably
get picked by many folk as his most palatable recording)
It was also a favorite song of Brian Wilson who led a crusade to get the
Beach Boys version (with
Brian lead) onto their debut Capitol LP “Surfin’ Safari”---but to no avail.
“Cindy..” stayed in the Capitol vaults for decades until rescued in 1990 and added (as one of three bonus
tracks) on a double CD reissue of the “Surfin’ Safari”/”Surfin’ USA”
album set
THE BLUE JAYS – SO LONG LOVERS ISLAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn5QGsKN_2A
Leon Peels (lead) Van Richardson,Alex Marigo and Leonard Davidson
revisit the location of
their original 1961 hit “Lovers Island” (sadly never released here in
UK despite it being scheduled for
UK release by Top Rank) again for the Milestone record company.
This was one of the combatants in the October 2019 Obscurities contest
on here (thanks to Bruce’s
own nomination and made it to Round 2)
The song was featured in the 2018 movie “Green Book”. Some maintain it
was penned FOR that movie
which is highly improbable since a) Leon Peels died in 1998 and that is definitely him as lead here
and b) check the date in the next sentence
As far as I can make out the song stayed in the vaults until 2016 when
it was released at last on the
CD collection “Lovers Island” on Relic
BO DIDDLEY – ROCK AND ROLL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy4Gjg8p-fQ
Go Bo Diddley!!
Good Bo stomper from 1962 but inexplicably never released and left to
gather dust on the Chess cutting
room floor.Luckily it was rescued in the end making its first
appearance (I’m not ABSOLUTELY sure on
this so I stand to be corrected on this one) on the “Rare And Well Done” set in 1997
THE EVERLY BROTHERS – CHAINS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9fto9sVho
Fresh from their last flirtation with Gerry Goffin & Carole King that
produced the catchy hit “Crying In
The Rain” the boys try the same thing again with their recording of
their song “Chains”. The song was
recorded in Hollywood on September 11 1962 (along with “Don’t Ask Me To
Be Friends” and “He’s Got
My Sympathy”)
Whilst Warner Bros dallied and dithered over its release Gerry & Carole
gave the song to The
Cookies girl group who rush released their version on Dimension high
into the American charts
The Cookies version got enough airplay here in the UK to attract the
attention of the then up and
coming Beatles in Liverpool who released their version of the song on
their first LP “Please Please
Me” the following year.
Sadly the Everlys version of “Chains” stayed in the Warner Bros vaults until 1984 when it finally saw
release on the Magnum Force LP “Nice Guys”
THE “5” ROYALES – SHE DID ME WRONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czfji9kdNzM
After a run of releases on Apollo label and then on King that included
some big r&b hits and some other
stone classics The “5” Royales in 1960 moved to Ruben Cherry’s then new “Home Of The Blues” record
label which was run in conjunction with his world famous record shop of
that name in Memphis. After
several releases the boys came out with “Catch That Teardrop” which sold well enough to get picked up
by the much bigger ABC-Paramount company for national distribution.
It was around this time in 1962 that the group cut very nice “She Did Me Wrong” that unfortunately
never saw release at the time and so was consigned to the vaults.
Luckily that state of affairs was
remedied in 1995 when the P-Vine label in Japan included the track on
their “What’s In The Heart –
1960-1963” set.
HOWLIN’ WOLF – LONG GREEN STUFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKz5nMmEAQE
Long time Wolf favorite of mine penned by Willie Dixon and recorded for
Chess in 1962 with Hubert
Sumlin (gtr) Jerome Arnold (bass) Johnny Jones (pno) J.T. Brown (ten
sax) Junior Blackman (dms)
Sadly as with all the other stuff listed here it stayed hidden in the
Chess vaults for years until it
finally saw light of day on the “Can’t Put Me Out” album on Blues Ball 2002 in 1979
BRENDA LEE – SWEET LOVIN’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQloyjeiyQ
Recorded at the Columbia studio in Nashville for Decca on March 8 1962
this catchy fast paced number
was a certain Top 10 hit if it had been released back then. Brenda was
THAT hot!!!
Okay…on the session we got here an all star lineup - Brenda Lee (vcl)
Grady Martin (gtr) Harold Bradley
(gtr) Bob Moore (bass) Floyd Cramer (pno) Boots Randolph (sax) Buddy
Harman (dms) + string section
+ Anita Kerr Singers
Never issued at the time it had to wait till 1995 to see light of day
when it rounds off the huge Bear Family “Little Miss Dynamite”
collection
JERRY LEE LEWIS – WAITING FOR A TRAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9av9lhNvWv0
Recorded June 5 1962 at 639 Madison Ave,Memphis Tn Jerry Lee Lewis
(vcl.pno) Roland Janes (gtr)
Scotty Moore (gtr) J.W Brown (bs) Buddy Harman or Al Jackson (dms)
Shirley Sisk (org).
As well as the title discussed here (originally by Jimmy Rodgers in
1929) the session also produced
“Sweet Little Sixteen”,”Hello Josephine” and “Set My Mind At Ease”
As with many,many Jerry Lee tracks this one lay in the vaults until 1970
when it was resurrected
(as “All Around The Watertank”) on the terrific Sun International LP
“Old Tyme Country Music”
THE MARCELS – BLUE HEARTACHES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGNQtHXQZTA
Another of their many attempts to recreate their “Blue Moon”
success---this 1962 recording didn’t
even see a release but stayed buried in the Colpix cellars until 1986
when it was at last included on the
Murray Hill set “Best Of The Marcels”
THE TEMPTATIONS – MY PILLOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMtQ2alVTZM
With Eddie Kendricks leading for the home side the fledgling Temps here
do a “by the numbers”
copy of the original---which WAS by The Numbers! Never issued at the
time the 1962 track stayed in the
Motown catacombs until 1999 when it was finally rescued and released on
the “Lost And Found : You’ve
Got To Earn It (1962-1968)” collection
Here’s the Numbers original version out first on Bonneville then
reissued on Dore both in 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2ljlGQtc4
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