Farm Aid This Week! - the show's theme is {mostly} "farm animals" Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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The first hit of this song was by Jimmy Elledge, late 1961; also a big R&B hit for Joe Hinton, 1964, and also charted for Johnny Tillotson, Narvel Felts and The Spinners // This song was first released by the songwriter Nelson, on his LP '... And Then I Wrote', Sept 1961 {his first album } // Click on the Link above, to view all 129 recordings of this song
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The Kinks [Sometimes billed as 'The Ravens' or 'The Boll-Weevils', their names pre-Kinks]
COMPLETE title of the CD "Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 3 -- 14 March To 16 December 1938" / Click on the Link above, to view the original shellac record
Cooke says "Play it, Billy", referring to sixteen year-old Billy Preston - organ // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original single with a color picture sleeve
recorded at: 1) Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee ... 2) eTown Hall in Boulder, Colorado and ... 3) Swamp Dogg's studio in Northridge, CA // This song was first on John Prine's first album, 1971 and was on Swamp Dogg's LP 'Cuffed, Collared, Tagged And Gassed'
Robert Johnson used the basic structure of "Milk Cow Blues" for his first record and only hit, "Terraplane Blues" (Vocalion, Jan 1937). // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original 10" record, and also to SCROLL down and read the Comments; TRUST ME, you'll thank me.
Originally released as 'Marva Wright' (Swiss Blueshouse Productions, 1994) // She is also known as "Marvalous Marva" / Click on the Link above/ left, to view the CD
... From Westchester, California // Producer: Richie Allen {aka 'Richard Podolor}; family opened a recording studio, "The American Recording Company"; he also released two LPs as 'Richie Allen and the Pacific Surfers' in 1963, and later worked with the Monkees, the Turtles, the Dillards, and Donovan, but is best known for engineering early Steppenwolf, then producing Three Dog Night. // Click on the Link above, to view this single
The first American Kinks album to be identical to the English release // * This song was credited to "J. Estes" {Sleepy John Estes} on the English album, but "Kokomo Arnold" on the English album; what gives?
Song was first recorded by Howlin' Wolf, Nov 1961 // Non-LP in England till the best-of LP 'Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)' // "... Now!"
- Rolling Stone '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' #180 / Click on the Link above, to view a French EP with a full-color picture sleeve
Recorded December 10, 1927 in Memphis, Tenn., with brothers Richard and Mayon Harney ("Pet" and "Can") on guitar, Rhodes on piano, vocals // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original 10" record
Live, recorded in 1992 at the Houston Room // Song was originally on the cassette-only release 'Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album' (self-released, 1983) then re-issued on Stress in 1986
* - This was the soundtrack album of a low-budget 1972 Canadian film / For such a fairly small-scale project, this attracted an all-star guest cast of 1970s musicians, including: Pete Townshend, Rick Grech, Kenney Jones, Ian Stewart, Bobby Keys, Billy Nicholls, and Faces Ian McLagan and Micky Waller
