365 Things to Do in Memphis #26: Shout Bama Lama!
365 Things to Do in Memphis #26: Shout Bama Lama!
Today's assignment: Listen to the Otis Redding (indeed, the best) version of "Shout Bama Lama".
Before Otis Redding signed with Stax, he released a single called "Shout Bama Lama" with the Pinetoppers. It's vibrant, funny and just a little bit sexy - everything I love about soul music. Plus, there are points where it sounds like Otis is making the whole thing up as he goes.
Take a listen:
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Len Pipkin
Link of the myriad twists and turns of Sue Records:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/sue/suestory.html
Sorry, I'm fanatical about backstory; the inexorable grind of labels expanding and collapsing; the spin-offs and others still in history's dustbin.
As for Sue, proper, the agency's cash cow were Ike and Tina...
Though, what a tune, here, by Mr. Redding ~~ wow... Damn, we have an incomparable musical heritage. OT arrived sometime circa '62. And the rest, as they say is 'Histoire'...
lp
January 27, 2012 8:45am

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