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Love Brown's B-sides. As good if not better than the obverse. Hadn't heard this track. great work and mad knowledge. Thank you.

gritty and groovy

Whoa, that definitely is some great trivia. The track is great, too.

Now, thats a big tune. I must reckon I’ve never heard this one before .Thanks for posting it, Spike-man. 2 thumbs up.

Thanks guys. I just looked it up on allmusic.com and saw that, unlike Polydor, some other labels had no problems about including it on recent James Brown compilations. Brown _was listed_ on the single and on allmusic as co-writer. On his 1968 LP _Got the Feelin'_ he sings over the instrumental. Maybe Polydor should have included it on _Soul Pride_ after all.

Allmusic.com never put a check mark next to it.

Fascinating, and my favorite piece of funk this Friday. Love the shot of the label and sleeve. Why do I find pictures of records so appealing?

Because it spreads the pleasure of listening to the other senses of seeing and touching, and to the hedonism of having, having something that others can't have. It also shows an item that permanently stores a musical performance that otherwise would have been fleeting and invisible. Plus, the datedness of an old 45 helps take us back to the period when it was recorded.

Well said, Spike. Tangibility goes a long way. Sure digital is convenient, but it isn't "human".

I know what you mean. A vinyl record is totally machine made, but it's visible and tangible like musicians performing in front of you are visible and tangible.

great track...RIP Mr. Brown. I miss my record player :( The little brother thought it would be cool to play DJ, and I've never replaced it. The crackle of a vinyl is sooo great.

It is as tangible as the money a wax record costs & it gets more expensive after the years. Spike, you said everything that should be said about the magic of playing a recordoin a turntable. On the other hand, the cool thing about mp3’s is they are a cheap way to aknowledge what you like in music, that cost loads of money & good contacts in the past. To be able to place a zillion albums in the ipod is quite something too. I like both formats in their own way I guess..

You're right. I didn't mean to say that vinyl or store-bought CDs are necessarily superior to mp3s or home-burnt CDs.

Another aspect to the appeal of pictures of records is that it is connected to the idea of owning a first pressing or the first edition of a book, which is connected the prestige of discovering a work when it was new, before the crowd discovered it. You did it on your own, you were perceptive enough to recognize it without the help of critics, historians or the masses. It can get a little silly. Paying big bucks for it later reduces the prestige. Acquiring it earlier or later are both in the category of...shopping.

I find this to be appealing visually also.

nice condition

great fun

It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I bothered re-listening to early Lonnie Mack while thinking about "Stone Fox," and realized that of course it's him! For years after learning from Polydor that his band played it, I figured that, well, maybe it's him, or it could be Freddy King, whose label was also King/Federal, or maybe someone else, and didn't think any more about it, even after posting this piece. Doh!

Heh,

Between this post that I'm sorry I missed and this:

http://mog.com/Cody_B/blog_post/149725

we know a lot more about those Dapps.

Cody, that's certainly true.  Perhaps in the ocean of music literature somebody has written an even more fascinating piece on about them with James Brown and Lonnie Mack than your wonderful post and mine. 

I wouldn't be suprised if it was Alan Leeds. I never thought about actually checking, but I might now.

I wait with baited (?) breath.

So, I found this page with a Lonnie Mack session discography..Scroll down

http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/lonniemack.htm

Good work!  One of these days I'm going to make a post of a few of his early ballads, maybe "Crying Over You" and "I'll Keep You Happy."