"Down Home Blues" by Z.Z. Hill? I'm surprised that someone else on this site remembers that song!


Props to some Soul artists you don't hear about everyday:

Z.Z. Hill - Cheatin' In The Next Room
Solomon Burke - Got To Get You Off My Mind
Linda Jones - Hypnotized
Clarence Carter - Patches
Joe Simon - The Chokin' Kind
Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz
O.V. Wright - You're Gonna Make Me Cry
Joe Tex - Hold What You've Got
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
Bobby Blue Bland - I Pity The Fool
Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On
Jean Knight - Don't Talk About Jody
King Floyd - I Feel Like Dynamite
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear You Playhouse Down
Ann Sexton - If I Work My Thing On You
Johnnie Taylor - Who's Makin' Love?
Shirley Brown - Woman To Woman

These should bring back some memories.

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wonderful list!

I was also surprised that someone on the org had heard of Z.Z. Hill. I had always thought he just a local artist that was maybe heard of in the next state or two. Here's some more of the late Z.Z. HILL:

Down Home Blues
Someone Else Is Steppin' In
Shade Tree Mechanic
What Am I Gonna Tell Her
Friday Is My Day
Three Into Two Won't Go
Cheatin' In The Next Room
Right Arm For Your Love
Open House At My House
Wang Dang Doodle
Give A Little, Get A Little
Stop You From Giving Me The Blues

Has anyone ever heard of BOBBY RUSH?: He sang:

Sue
Wearing It Out
Talk To Your Daughter

Or DENISE LASALLE? She sang:

Don't Mess With My Tu-Tu
Down Home Blues (X Rated Version)....Remake of Z.Z. Hill's song.
This Bell Was Made For Ringing
Hey Lady, Honey Your Husband Is Cheatin' On Us
You Can Have That Lowdown Husband Of Mine, But Please Don't Mess With My Man

That was the blues side. On the funk side we had:

FREEDOM:

Get Up And Dance....This song was later sample by Grandmaster Flash and was called "Freedom".
Whodat Talk About We Can't Jam, Whodat, Whodat
At The Party
Do It All Night....Remake of Prince's song.

For ballads we had:

SHO-NUFF:

What Am I Gonna Do
Don't Be Lonely

For rap we had:

KYPER:

Conceited
Tic-Tac-Toe

These were/are all local artists.
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The above list were local groups. On a national level, does anyone remember Millie Jackson's version of "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right"?

vainandy said:

Oh hell yeah!

The "rap" segment is outrageous!

The "rap" segment is the reason I bought that song...she can really talk some trash! If you play all three parts of that song continuously, you have probably about a 15 minute song and they used to play every minute of it on the radio back in the day.

fantastic listings! dayum, I love my org gang

CHEI! LOOK AT THIS GUY

DavidEye said:

We know full well he'd rather be listening to Shakira.

Hey papaa,long time no see!


Shakira?

papaa said:

"listening"? well, that's not exactly what I think of when I hear the name Shakira... now what was it again?

DavidEye said:

Her other famous trash talkin' rap is...



...Logs And Thangs

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vainandy said:

Bobby Rush was prominently featured in The Road To Memphis segment of the Martin Scorsese produced The BLUES documentary that was shown on PBS not too long ago.

See clips and segment overview here: The Road To Memphis

I remember Denise Lasalle from the Trapped By A Thing Called Love single.

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Helluva list you started out with, Audience. Perfect additions, VainAndy. I'm pulling out some of that stuff RIGHT NOW! Now I KNOW there are some serious R&B folks on here!

I just picked up her 1983 Malaco album "Lady In The Street" yesterday. While I was browsing, I saw "Trapped By A Thing Called Love" and it was on a different record label. I also saw some of Z.Z. Hill's earlier work on a different record label also. I was wondering how people had heard of these artists on a national level. At least "Down Home Blues" was on Malaco. I'm hoping now that Jackson is trying to revitalize Farish Street, we may get some national recognition like Memphis' Beale Street.

theAudience said:

Oh man lol momma loves that jam to death. She would sing her lungs to heaven whenever she does her home cooking while that song is get played in the background.

I love the speaking words part

Shirley Brown is from the Millie Jackson/Betty Wright crowd, ya know? She's the ghetto gritty bitch who'll let you have it in a heartbeat.

BTW please tell you guys remember Marlena Shaw? Oh lord, thats another savage sangin' heffa lol I love the album "Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?"

And my FAVE jam from her is the infamous "Go Away Little Boy" oh so sassy
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Here're some titles ya'll:

You Better Stop-LaVern Baker
Mambo Baby-Ruth Brown
Fever-Little Willie Jon(Which Peggy Lee took to mainstream lata)
Caldonia-Louis Jordan
Roll ‘Em Pete-Big Joe Turner
Truth Will Send You Free-Mother's Finest

Harlepolis said:

"go away little boy" is my fave too. and "woman to woman". i would hear these songs when i was little and not who the singers were-i just loved the music.
can somebody tell me who made this blues song called "these last two dollars"? that song cracks me up!

Harlepolis said:

Now Barbara I don't know how you're gonna take this
Or whether you be cool or come out of a bag
You see it really doesn't make any difference
But it's only fair that I let you know
That the man you're in love with...he's mine
From the top of his head to the bottom of his feet
The bed he sleeps in and every piece of food he eats
You see...I make it possible

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NewPowerSista said:

There are more True "Soul" Soldiers around here than the posts would lead you to believe.



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heybaby said:

Maybe Johnnie Taylor's "Last Two Dollars"?

These last two dollars, i’m not gonna lose
These last two dollars, i’m not gonna lose
One’s going for my bus fare, other one for the jukebox
I got to hear me some down home blues


Good Love!

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theAudience said:

Since We're on the greatness of the late great Johnnie Taylor let's not forgot my favorite cuts by him which are "Who's Making Love" and "I Beleive In You."

Oh yes, I remember Ms. Shaw. That was a great song. That was back in the days when the "rap" part of the song took on a whole different meaning. That's when they would break the song down and just talk to you.

Two more great songs with a "rap" are:

Cause I Love You - Lenny Williams
She's Got Papers On Me - Richard "Dimples" Fields

We can surprise you when we want to. What can I say, we are learning from the best...the teacher...The Audience.

vainandy said:

vainandy I appreciate the compliment , but I hope I don't come off that way.
I just heard a great deal of southern soul music on local radio stations when I lived in north Georgia/south Florida.
I even had the experience of playing the so-called "Chitlin' circuit" while I was there. Some of the most unpretentious and music loving American folks i've ever run into.

I'll try and list some other more obscure artists as I remember them.

For example, a drummer that became a good friend and we ended up playing together for about 20 years used to play with a James Brown clone out of Georgia named Freddie Wilson. Freddie had a few singles out like (What Would It Be Like and Top Goin' Up, Bottom Goin' Down).

What Would It Be Like Pt.1

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theAudience said:

yeah thats it. this lounge that my mother goes to (i go with her sometimes) in chicago on 57th ashland called "e.t.'s" used to play that when it was time to go.

heybaby said:

"You ain't got to go home but you gotta get the hell outta here!"

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A few more soul gems...

Don Covay - Mercy Mercy
Otis Clay - Precious, Precious
Barbara Lynn - You'll Use A Good Thing
Garnet Mims - Cry Baby
Barbara Acklin - Love Makes A Woman
Howard Tate - Look At Granny Run Run, Get It While You Can
Jerry Butler - Only The Strong Survive
Gene Chandler - Just Be True
King Curtis - Soul Serenade
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free

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theAudience said:

Shitttt! Excuse my french but that one difinitely takes me back. I have fond memories of my parents playing that song on the stereo.