Alex Harvey and His Soul Band
Alex Harvey and His Soul Band | ||||
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Released | 1964 | |||
Recorded | October 1963 | |||
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Length | 32:21 | |||
Label | Polydor | |||
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Singles from Alex Harvey and His Soul Band | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Record Mirror | [2] |
Alex Harvey and His Soul Band is the debut album by Alex Harvey accompanied by his Soul Band. It was originally released in 1964 on vinyl, and was re-released on vinyl in Germany in 1985 or 1986. The 1999 release is a compilation of 20 unreleased songs of the Soul Band, including two songs recorded before the debut album. The album is available on CD.
Apparently the backing group on this recording – made at a Hamburg club, or simulated to sound like a show – does not feature the actual Soul Band, but musicians from the obscure Liverpool group Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes.[3][4]
Track listing
[edit]Side one
[edit]- "Framed" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:21
- "I Ain't Worrying Baby" (Alex Harvey) – 2:58
- "Backwater Blues" (Lonnie Johnson) – 3:07
- "Let the Good Times Roll (Leonard Lee) – 3:05
- "Going Home" (Alex Harvey) – 2:09
- "I've Got My Mojo Working" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:50
- "Teens Ville USA" (Cogswall) – 3:33
Side two
[edit]- "New Orleans" (Traditional) – 3:19
- "Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger" (Bo Diddley) – 2:26
- "When I Grow Too Old to Rock" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:26
- "Evil Hearted Man" (Josh White) – 3:00
- "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 2:38
- "The Blind Man" (Traditional) – 2:35
- "Reelin' and Rockin'" (Chuck Berry) (re-released album only) – 3:29
Track listing for 1999 German release
[edit]- "The Liverpool Scene"
- "Shout" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley)
- "What's Wrong With Me Baby?"
- "Reelin' and Rockin" (Chuck Berry)
- "The Canoe Song"
- "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot"
- "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon)
- "Long Long Gone"
- "My Kind of Lovin'"
- "Outskirts of Town"
- "Parchman Farm"
- "Penicillin Blues"
- "Shakin' All Over" (Johnny Kidd)
- "Sticks and Stones"
- "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby"
- "Ten A Penny"
- "Tutti Frutti"
- "You Ain't No Good To Me"
- "You Are My Sunshine" (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell)
- "You've Put A Spell On Me"
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Unterberger, Richie. "Review: Alex Harvey's Soul Band". Allmusic. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- ^ "Alex Harvey: And His Soul Band" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 159. 28 March 1964. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "AllMusic Review".
- ^ "Alex Harvey and His Soul Band".