Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
![BILLY GAYLES - I'M HURTING [Shock 200] 1961](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QNFUcCy1DLw/hqdefault.jpg)
Billy Gales released this track with a shouting intro a lot like Mohammed Ali or Amos n’ Andy it evolves into a typical sixties R&B style Soul number. There is a slight Little Richard feel to it, definitely one for the R&B aficionado.
Ron Holden - Love You So
Ron Holden with the Thunderbirds sang this track with gusto. Many Soul Club goers regarded this recording as Rock and Roll music but what’s really the difference? Many Rock and Roll songs were popular for both Mods and Rockers – Chuck Berry and Little Richard for example.
This 45 was dug up once again and played at the Blue Note in Manchester a couple of times, to a mixed reception. Reviewing it again in modern days it passes the test.
My Babe was the ‘B’ side of his hit: Love You So.
Ron Holden
Discog @ SoulfulkindaMusic
Simply brilliant release by Bobby Thomas & The Afros. Lamenting horns very much like a Stax composition very Otis in its theme.
More Info: Sir Shambling
Walter Rhodes sang this deep Soul ballad, lamenting the loss of love.
I Worship The Ground You Walk On was also recorded by Etta James and Jimmy Hughes.
Ortheia Barnes was an R&B and jazz singer who often opened the bill at concerts for great artists such Stevie Wonder and other Motown stars. In fact she was the sister of J.J. Barnes. Her voice was smooth and sweet, never more so than on Waiting For Joey.
In the 1990’s Ortheia Barnes became a religious minister and a political advocate on black issues.
Born: October 18, 1944
Died: May 15, 2015
With an underlying beat sounding much like a Mary Wells song, try this number by La Wanda William.
It’s Your Voodoo Working
A great Northern Soul find by Charles Sheffield, and Voodoo hoodoo seems to be a theme in some Soul tracks, but most are in Blues, e.g. Screaming Jay Hawkins. Love Potion number 9 etc.
Finger clicking good Doo Wop song by The Magnetics but with a dance beat.
222 in Kev Roberts Top 500.
AKA The Volumes.
Here is another track also great: I Have A Girl. (1965)
Magnetics / Volumes @ The SOULSMITH
This track by Wiley Terry has that lazy R&B style beat we got to like in the early 60’s.
Bobby Parker made one fantastic 45 that was huge at the Twisted Wheel:
Bobby Parker was still going strong in 2003 where he appeared live on stage on a UK tour where we saw him at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax, complete with James Brown style wig.
Many soul and blues artists were re-released on Sue, some never had a previous release in the UK. This track was incredibly popular at many of Manchester‘s Soul and Blues Clubs.
Bobby Parker: A little blues, a little gospel and a little jazz. Louisiana-born Bobby Parker was a child guitar fanatic. He joined his first band, The Charms, immediately after high school in the early 1950s.
He played with artists like Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson and Sam Cook. He earned his fame for writing and singing hits like Watch Your Step, which reached British and American R&B charts in the early 1960s. When he appeared on stage he liked to talk about the UK groups who asked him how he played his trade mark guitar riff on Watch Your Step. These included The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton and so on. The same riff was shamelessly nicked subsequently by Led Zepplin. We’ll leave you to tell us which track in our Guestbook.
Today, he lives in Suitland on the Californian West Coast. As with all great artists, his amazing guitar work looks effortless.
You better take it easy baby
Before you go away
You did me dirty
You’ll get yours one day
Chorus:
You better
Watch your step…
Talkin’ about you
Watch your step…
You better
Watch your step…
Keep your eyes open wide
‘Cause you’ll be hurtin’ down inside
You better leave me all your money
Before you go away
Don’t think I’m funny honey
All I’ve got to say
Chorus
‘Cause when you took your love
from me
You left me full of misery
I’m gonna be all right
Chorus
When you need me by your side
I’m gonna say go somewhere and hide
Watch your step…
You better watch out baby
everything you do
I’m gonna keep my eyes focused,
right on you
You better walk right baby
There’s just one thing I know
You better watch your step…
When you need me by your side
I’m gonna say go somewhere and hide
Wikipedia: Bobby Parker (Guitarist)
