MrBasssman54
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ChrisBrame
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WB
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Reply with quote | #3 |
The first one sounds like a Philly Soul recording . . . and I thought it reminded me of the opening notes of a cover of Jackie Ross' "Selfish One."
However, I have to advise that the "Red, yellow, black, white and brown" line from "Keeper of the Castle" by the Four Tops may've been driven up in pitch by about a semitone. (Sounding like B-flat minor followed by Eb6, instead of Am followed by D6.)
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MrBasssman54
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Reply with quote | #4 |
Nice work guys. Now if I can only find who actually DID that cover version of that Jackie Ross tune, I'll be OK. As far as Keeper off the Castle, I'll be using the original in stereo if possible. A lot of these songs were either sped up or slowed down as needed by Dickie Goodman.
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randypny
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There were not even any single releases, much less charted versions, of "Selfish One" after 1964, so I suspect the clip in question was a similar instrumental intro to another song (although which song I have no idea).
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MikeC
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Dickie Goodman, and in fact most novelty break-in artists, usually used fairly current records for break-ins. I'd try to date the novelty record in question, then limit the search to about 6 months before as a first crack at it.
That reminds me. There was a break-in record released about May or June 1961 called "The Big Game" by Bill Fern. It was not much different from a lot of novelties of the time, but this one used the original version of "Speedy Gonzales" several times in the record as break-ins. This was about a year before Pat Boone's version. The original was by David Dante on RCA. (And you probably thought Pat Boone had finally come up with an original record?) I have a copy on a 45 and on a mono compact 33. Has anyone ever found this in stereo?
 
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MusicTrax
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Hey, Mr. Bassman! All of the sound clips used in Dickie Goodman's songs are listed in Jon Goodman's biography of his father, The King of Novelty, which is available on Amazon at this link.
All the versions of "Super Fly Meets Shaft" that I've ever heard sounded terrible, and as far as I know, it's never been reissued on a legit CD, probably due to the cloudy status of Rainy Wednesday Records.
(Hey! That's an unintentional pun: "Rainy?" "Cloudy?" Somebody slap me...)
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bazzwell
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Not "Selfish One". Try Edwin Starr "S-O-S (Stop Her On Sight)" and you've found the tune.
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MrBasssman54
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