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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Feb 9, 2012 13:38:00 GMT
first of all i would like to thank ROADWORM for passing this amazing recording onto all the sahbsters, It is now ready to be shared for free !!!!. Anyone who would like a copy of this can pm me and i'll give them my address, all you need to do is send me a stamped S.A.E. and two good quality blank cd's, and i will get these back to you as soon as i can. ;D. Totally amazed a 48 year old recording just surfaced and for the age of it, the sound quality is really good. Hoping to get a couple of nice soulband pictures, and get some artwork sorted for it, the bigger the pictures are the better. Karma to ya roadworm yer a top man. yo ho ho  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by roadworm on Feb 9, 2012 14:39:51 GMT
Nice one TK. As you say, the sound quality is really good for a 48 year old recording, and I'm sure the fans will be surprised that it actually sounds much better than many SAHB bootleg tapes from the 70s.
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Post by Mrs Foster on Feb 9, 2012 17:00:23 GMT
Heard it, and it is soooperb, what a find, Many thanks Roadworm.  |
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Post by roadworm on Feb 9, 2012 17:14:21 GMT
My favourite song is "Down In The Valley." I wish Alex had released it as a single!!!!!
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Post by roadworm on Feb 9, 2012 17:41:24 GMT
There is actually an earlier Soulband recording made in Glasgow in 1959. It was cut onto an acetate in Carlisle at the time and I've heard some tracks from it. I don't own the disc, but Alex sounds very bluesy and inexperienced (well, he was only 24). The tracks are "Backwater Blues", "New Orleans", "Tequila" and 3 others I'm trying to remember. I heard excerpts from it about 15 years ago. Amazing recording. I'd love to hear it again!!!
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Feb 9, 2012 17:51:38 GMT
 can this be tracked down by any chance
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Post by Mrs Foster on Feb 9, 2012 21:11:46 GMT
Roadworm, use the help of our own brave indian warrior tracker, he's great at finding treasures, but even better at getting us lost goin tae gigs  |
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Feb 9, 2012 21:58:39 GMT
hey BIG hoggy speak with forked tongue...........and drink pernod shots at speed of many antelope !!!
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Post by chesterthecat77 on Feb 9, 2012 22:07:57 GMT
Thanks Roadworm and T.K....Superb recording that everyone on here should have. Given Polydor used another band for the album...Is this the only recording of the 'actual' Soul Band?
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Post by roadworm on Feb 10, 2012 11:43:55 GMT
The Soulband changed line-ups so many times between 1959 and 1965 that it's difficult to say what is the 'actual' Soulband. The guys who played on the Polydor album were Billy Sadler (drums), Ian Hines (electric piano), Bobby Thompson (bass), George Carmichael (saxophone) and Robert Nimmo (guitar). They also played on "What's Wrong With Me, Baby?" and "Reelin' & Rockin'."
The guys who played on the majority of tracks on the Bear Family CD were George McGowan (drums), Jimmie Grimes (bass), Bill Patrick (saxophone) and Robert Nimmo (guitar). This album was originally to have been released by Polydor in 1965 under the title "Alex Harvey And His Soulband...Continued", but there was a feud at the record company and it never got put out until 1999 when Bear Family obtained the licence.
God knows who played on the 1965 Polydor single "Ain't That Just Too Bad/My Kind Of Love."
The two tracks "Jailhouse Rock" and "Going Down To Birmingham" by the Soulband (from the "Teenage A Go Go" CD) were recorded live at the Top Ten Club Hamburg in 1964. Once again, I don't know what the line-up of the band was. These ARE genuine live recordings .
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Post by roadworm on Feb 10, 2012 12:11:50 GMT
You may be interested to know that band leader Mike McKenzie conducted Alex's recording of "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot." Mike McKenzie was disabled and he conducted the choir and strings in the studio from his wheelchair. The "Canoe Song" was originally sung by Paul Robeson in the film "Sanders Of The River."
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Post by victor55 on Feb 10, 2012 23:47:25 GMT
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Post by chesterthecat77 on Feb 13, 2012 1:58:17 GMT
I have been playing this all week, love it.....I'm not sure if the tracklisting has been posted yet or not, but here it is anyway... 1964 ALEX HARVEY & THE SOUL BAND - THE NEW INN, ROSS-ON-WYE, HEREFORDSHIRE, UK (ROADWORM'S TAPE) CD 1/FIRST SET 1 - AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES 2 - LONG, LONG GONE 3 - LONG DISTANCE CALL 4 - THE FOOL 5 - BEACHCOMBER 6 - I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU 7 - TUNING UP 8 - PARCHMENT FARM 9 - EVIL HEARTED ME CD2/SECOND SET 1 - YOU ARE MY (INDIAN) SUNSHINE 2 - BONY MARONIE 3 - NIGHT TRAIN 4 - ST. JAMES INFIRMARY 5 - FIVE SPOT AFTER DARK 6 - OUT OF SIGHT 7 - DOWN IN THE VALLEY My favourites are 'Long, Long Gone', 'The Fool' and 'Parchment Farm' |
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Post by roadworm on Feb 13, 2012 13:16:54 GMT
Glad to hear you're enjoying the Soulband gig!!
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Post by zedthezebra on Feb 25, 2012 8:14:09 GMT
Just listening to it now, courtesy of TK, (thank you again!) and it's wonderful. Thanks for sharing it Roadworm...you are a prince among worms!! ;-) x
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Post by Aileen on Jun 3, 2012 18:08:05 GMT
I just want to say that Billy Sadler was my cousin!
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Jun 3, 2012 20:25:16 GMT
yo aileen, join the forum and pm me for my address and i'll get a copy of this recording sorted for you
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Post by Aileen on Jun 4, 2012 19:27:17 GMT
That would be great but I live in Lanzarote! Parcels tend not to arrive! Thank you anyway.
I met the band, including Alex Harvey, when I was about thirteen. I didn't think too much about it, as I was used to seeing them around my aunt's house. I was cool and didn't know it!
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Jun 10, 2012 22:24:43 GMT
offer still stands
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Post by Aileen on Sept 24, 2012 20:42:44 GMT
I don't know how to send a pm, on this site! It would be wonderful to be able to hear my cousin playing. Of course, I heard him, quite often, as he jammed with the band, at my aunt's house.
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Post by Catherine on Sept 25, 2012 6:33:42 GMT
I don't know how to send a pm, on this site! It would be wonderful to be able to hear my cousin playing. Of course, I heard him, quite often, as he jammed with the band, at my aunt's house.  |
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Post by thetomahawkkid1 on Sept 25, 2012 13:35:03 GMT
or email me aileen, and i'll send you a wee sample
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Post by dansadler on Dec 23, 2012 5:31:31 GMT
Billy Sadler was my father - he passed in 1993 - i had a tape recording of Alex Harvey that he was the drummer on.
Any way to put me in touch with something that he was involved in would be amazing as that tape, as much as it was worth to me, has been lost.
Hope everyone has enjoyed the music.
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Post by Catherine on Dec 23, 2012 14:06:31 GMT
Hi Dan, I think you may have come to the very place where a certain Mighty Brave Wise Pirate Warrior Chief (Tomahawk Kid) is just the fellow to contact.....you don't have to do anything, he'll read this and come to you I hope (am fairly sure) that we can restore that long lost recording with your Dad drumming
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Post by brianglasgow on Dec 29, 2012 23:17:15 GMT
just a new member but id LOVE to get a copy of this brian x
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;D 
can this be tracked down by any chance 
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