About 96 minutes..Cover Artist-Song-Covered Artist/WriterSide 1Booker T. and the MG's-Hang 'em High-Ennio MorriconeLee "Scratch" Perry- Tighten Up- Archie Bell and the DrellsGang Do Tagarela - Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill GangThe JB's-Watermelon Man-Herbie HancockWillie Bobo-Shotgun/Blind Man- Jr. Walker and the All StarsJimmy Smith-I got a Woman- Ray CharlesHerbie Mann- Hold On I'm Comin' - Sa...
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A classic live track from an artist who died very early in his career and was soon forgotten about. Fortunately, James "Baby Huey" Ramey's music was later sampled by hip hop artists ranging from Ice Cube to A Tribe Called Quest to Ghostface Killah introducing his great work to a whole new generation of listeners. Lets make it Mighty Mighty on this Funky Friday!
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Picture books in ParisHe hit death hard and it heard ItDid impress and muse the red cross barons and whiskey lipped angels,Baby to the world bit blueone dragon, two...A native of Richmond, Indiana, James Ramey moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of nineteen, and worked with several local bands as a singer. Due to a glandular disorder, Ramey was a large man, weighing about 350 pounds (160 kg)....
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Kicking around iTunes the other night I ran across this album and was so intrigued I had to email it to myself to make sure it was for real. Tonight, I bought it and have been listening in awe. After some background reading online, I learned that Baby Huey was somewhat of a local favorite on the Chicago scene but because of a glandular disease that caused him to weigh in at about 4 bills and ...
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I have a theory, but I'm to lazy to venture into the other parts of the non-mog internet. Plus, with all our combined libraries we can probably make a substantial case for this theory. So here it is:Is the song "California Dreamin'" by The Mama's and the Papa's, the funk standard, or equivalent there of, to a jazz standard such as George Gershwin's "Summertime", or a song like "Misty"? I find...
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I didn't know about the Chicago soul band Baby Huey & The Babysitters (or Baby Sitters? I keep finding it both ways) until this year. What a find! They only released one album, with only eight tracks, as Huey himself (born James Ramey), a four-hundred-pound heroin addict, passed away due to a heart attack in 1970, at the age of twenty-six. The record, called The Baby Huey Story: The Living Lege...
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