WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 07/14/17

Listener comments!

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8:56am listener james from westwood:

How do, Doug and all! Sending continuing peace and ease toward Pittsburgh.

8:57am Maggie B.:

yes, I've been thinking of you all week as well, Doug. hugs.

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8:58am doctorjazz:

Hi Doug and Drummers. As Listener James said, heart goes out to you and yours.

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

I am currently unable to connect to the stream. People are working on it....

8:58am annie:

same here, doug.. you've been held in my heart since all this started, hope the road is smoother now.. ..heart you..

8:59am annie:

(let us know when it's up, i'm listening to micah's show...)

9:04am Uncle Michael:

SOUND!

9:04am ausmanx:

and we're up and running... good evening, all

9:05am annie:

thanks aus!

9:06am Doug Schulkind:

Holy moly, talk at you all in a few moments!

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9:06am listener james from westwood:

If anyone's still hearing the stream on iTunes, double-click something else, then double-click GTDR again. And there we are!

9:06am ausmanx:

hope you're well, annie, while we freeze in the deep south

9:07am Jeff Golick:

Nothing but love...

9:09am holland oats:

<3 to you doug

9:09am annie:

i am aus...been getting the wanderlust of late..

9:12am annie:

it was all folding together doug.. as it should be, serendipity plays a role in our lives more than we know..

9:13am ausmanx:

he was lucky to have you there, doug. i hope i can do something similar for my father as he enters his 93rd year

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9:14am doctorjazz:

Listening to the Pop Up from the web site, still on the stream...

9:15am Doug Schulkind:

Is anyone listening via iTunes or a .pls stream?

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9:15am listener james from westwood:

Doug, if it helps with the mixed feelings, the night my mom died, after she accepted palliative care, and after she endured eight trips to the hospital for COPD, 4 months in a nursing home, and 2 bouts of respiratory arrest and ventilator intubation, I slept more deeply than I had for 2 years since her decline began.
Also: You may eventually, soon or even surprisingly distant from now, just completely let loose with grief and accumulated tension. This is also OK. It helps.
YMMV on all of this as on everything.

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9:16am listener james from westwood:

I'm on iTunes. Was on the stream at 9, then saw here folks could hear. I opened a non-GTDR stream then flipped back to GTDR, and I was on. Maybe the same will work w the popup.

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James (and all)
I have the great benefit of having observed this experience up close with Jessie and her mom three years ago.

9:18am Doug Schulkind:

Is anyone now listening via pop-up player?

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9:18am doctorjazz:

Not on my end, I open and close the pop up, keep getting the stream (which is pretty nice sounding, of course).
Been there as well, Doug, one of the joys of getting older...

9:19am annie:

i am...it's fine

9:20am Doug Schulkind:

My apologies to all who are not able to connect. I am connecting, but by the skin of my teeth.

9:20am Maggie B.:

i'm listening via pop up player now

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9:20am listener james from westwood:

Why do I have the feeling that I've heard "Hindustan" in other forms, possibly as someone's in-theme or talkover music, somewhere on the station? Just getting that Proustian playlist feeling!

9:20am annie:

1919 is when my father was born, his troubled life ended in 1980..pretty much at the age i am now, very surreal.

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9:22am Brian in UK:

Ahoy! Ahoy! Listening from old Blighty. The jolly old Pop-up is top hole; Mr DJ.

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9:23am Brian in UK:

Doug, trust you have your decent togs on today. Uncle Michael's fill-in is a classy act.

9:24am Doug Schulkind:

Blessings to you, Annie. Blessings to you, Brian in UK. Blessings to all.

9:27am goyim in the am:

Sincerest condolences, Doug. This set is insanely moving to me in context. I'll call my 84-year-old pops tonight.

9:28am Doug Schulkind:

Give my love to all your dads, friends. Hello, GintheA!

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9:28am Brian in UK:

Perhaps a steal from A Real Slow Drag by Scott Joplin.

9:31am Mark Williams:

My sincerest condolences also, Doug.

9:31am Doug Schulkind:

Thank you thank you so kindly thank you.

9:32am Stanley:

And from me, Doug.

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9:35am listener james from westwood:

Good to hear Bert!

9:37am Doug Schulkind:

I wrote about about my dad on Facebook here: www.facebook.com...

9:38am Webhamster Henry:

Hi Doug This is a nice tribute to your father, in a very GTDS way!

9:40am melinda:

Hi Doug and people

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9:43am Brian in UK:

'Incurable punster' wonder if he passed that on. Ofcourse he did.

9:44am Jessie:

What song should Lincoln play for you?

9:45am Mr C:

A Blues Master with a Blues Blaster! Give the Drummer Some!

9:45am annie:

in the mid-70s i worked in a nursing home with a wide range of ages and mind-sets in the residents, from far-gone to very lucid and present. my favorite people were the ones who had the stories embedded in their memories, with no clue to the present time.. i wonder if you chronicled the stories you heard from your dad's memories. i wonder how big that book is now, doug, the one you're writing..

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
Guilty as charged.

@Jessie
Interesting question. Would you mind if I pondered the answer for another 40 years or so?

9:47am melinda:

I'm sorry to hear about your dad, Doug. I read the fbook tribute via someone else the other day, it was interesting and touching.

9:47am Jessie:

40 years still sounds like a long time, but it used to sound a lot longer.

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

Hello Mr Reverend Doctor C! Hello everybody! I am a little ferklempt and not able to comment as regularly and rapidly as usual today. Apologies if I miss you.

9:50am Doug Schulkind:

This Teddy Wilson number is just about the baddest bad-ass song of all time.

9:52am Doug Schulkind:

@Jessie
Lincoln would play Billie Holiday's "Lover Man" for me. And then she would play Billie Holiday's "Some Other Spring" (because I can't decide between the two). We will hear the latter in a moment...

9:54am still b/p:

That you're doing this at all today is pretty powerful and admirable. My thoughts and condolences added to all the others.
My dad at 90 is doing relatively well, but with failing knees is too proud to use a cane for walks in public. At 90, why give a shit about appearances and an inhibiting self-consciousness? And why not be constructively self-attentive? Wellll, the question for (middle-aged) young 'uns, of course, is why ask such questions in vain about what the elders oughta do or not do?

9:54am Stanley:

Thanks for sharing your wonderful tribute to your father, Doug. What a lovely man (and son).

9:56am Doug Schulkind:

Lovely of you to say, Stanley.

@still b/p
My father was in ridiculously good physical shape. Had both hips replaced, but that was it. The hospital stay in 2006 for his first hip surgery was his first time in a hospital since toddlerhood.

10:01am still b/p:

Wow...good genes, good living? Given the period of his life, do we assume he ate a standard American diet and had a mostly standard lifestyle for a long era before all sorts of warnings rained and reigned for all of us...?

10:02am Doug Schulkind:

Big bear hugs to you all.

10:03am Doug Schulkind:

"Is your figure less than Greek?" What a line!

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10:03am JtotheK:

My condolences, Doug. I read your lovely Facebook post. Bear hug right back atcha.

10:06am Mr C:

Great set!! One of your best..

10:06am ausmanx:

i was wondering if there might be Bastille Day references today, but if this is really what the French have sunk to, i think it's best if we just quietly ignore them... www.theguardian.com...

10:06am Doug Schulkind:

I am feeling so cared for by so many.

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10:06am Brian in UK:

This sounds like a pretty fair mix tape. Do not stop.

10:08am Jessie:

I have to say that whenever I hear the young Sinatra I am re-astonished.

10:08am annie:

doug, i believe that if all the hugs and embraces around you became manifest it would stretch out 50 miles in all directions. what a cushion, huh??

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10:08am doctorjazz:

I gave up on the PC Pop-Up, still on the stream. Phone app working well, though, switched over to hear Lee Wiley.
My mother in law turned 100 last fall; she did really well actually for 95+, has been declining past year, more dramatically the last few months. Family is having difficulty with her decline.

10:08am Jeff Golick:

Oh, man.

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10:09am doctorjazz:

Hawk, great! (great set I missed, have to catch it later)

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10:09am Brian in UK:

annie we might get 50 miles of elbow room yet.

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10:12am Brian in UK:

Doug, let's face it your Dad was lucky to be listening to songwriting arguably at its zenith in the late 30 and 40s. Then there is the jazz...

10:16am annie:

i experience the sadness of loss vicariously through others' grief; i was pretty much trained to have zero outward emotion as i was coming up. so, thanks for this amazing show, doug, on all levels, musical, written, and personal. we are blessed to have such a mentor as you.

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10:18am duke:

We thank your father for your musical gifts to us

10:22am Doug Schulkind:

@duke
Credit where credit's due.

10:24am Ramblin' Ray:

Sorry for you loss Doug. I heartily second Duke's thanks to your Dad.

10:27am Doug Schulkind:

Thanks, Rambin'! Thanks everyone.

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10:31am Artie Haywire:

Love flowing out of this show, these folks, and all over. Greetings all. Comfort and thanks to Doug.

10:33am Doug Schulkind:

I have come to the radio for comfort for 37 years, Artie. And it has always always been there.

10:36am Mike East:

Sorry for your loss, Doug. Good to hear you this morning.

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

So so so glad to be here, Mike East. No place I'd rather be.

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10:40am Brian in UK:

Have a well deserved beak, Doug. Had me some dressed crab just now. Hmmmm sea-food.
Safe journey.

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10:41am Brian in UK:

Leave that typo alone.

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

I plan on very nearly ODing on lobster and fried clams.

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10:42am doctorjazz:

Have a great vacation, Doug!

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

Typos just prove my fallibility in the eyes of God.

10:43am 67tele:

My condolences - just lost my mom less than 2 weeks ago

10:46am still b/p:

Scenic coast is the right place for a mojo level-out and for a long peaceful exhale. And comfort food inhale.

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

Oh my, 67tele. Condolences back at you. It is really hard.

10:49am Doug Schulkind:

The rocky crags of the Maine coast is one of my favorite places. I love the ocean, but I'm not a "beach" guy. Plus, did I mention the lobster and fried clams?

10:50am Doug Schulkind:

The bass line on this Ann Sexton number just slays me. It has Carol Kaye written all over it.

10:51am Lewis:

I have a 6 week leave planned for the central coast of Maine - october-mid november... can't wait!

10:52am Mr C:

A Swamp Dogg concoction..

10:53am Doug Schulkind:

A Charles Whitehead/Jerry Williams joint!

10:53am Mr C:

That Ann Sexton bass line was probably Tim Drummond.

10:53am Doug Schulkind:

Good for YOU, Lewis! And good FOR you.

10:54am Doug Schulkind:

I sit corrected, Mr C.

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10:55am Artie Haywire:

Ah, the sweet briny pleasures of the Ipswich Clam!

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10:55am doctorjazz:

Man, Peebles sure sings sexy!

10:56am Doug Schulkind:

I loved Briny Pleasures. Their early records before they sold out.

10:56am still b/p:

Long ago a college friend from midwest was here in Maine for honeymoon. He said watching the waves is like watching a fire, mesmerizin' and species-fascination-wise.

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10:58am listener james from westwood:

Beautiful 2 hours, Doug, and a tribute that we should all hope someone might someday compose for us.

Here comes Part 5!

10:58am annie:

have a great vacation doug, breathe it in..

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10:59am doctorjazz:

(just checked, pop-up still on the stream, phone app working fine)

11:00am Stanley:

Hey, it's that shout again.
Time just to say thanks for a terrific set of music. Wishing you a great holiday and plenty of rest. Peace.

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11:00am listener james from westwood:

Vacations rarely get better earned than this one. May lobster and waves both bring peace.

11:00am Ramblin' Ray:

Thanks Doug. Enjoy all the moments of your well-deserved break.

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11:01am doctorjazz:

Thanks, Doug, enjoy the trip!

11:03am Doug Schulkind:

It was weird planning for this vacation which, for all the world, it seemed I wouldn't get to take. Though my father's death wasn't sudden, there was a good possibility that he could have hung around for many more weeks.

11:04am Maggie B.:

have a wonderful vacation, Doug. may your heart heal.
gotta let you know: just now rewrote a photo caption of a pro football player playing a drummer's snare with the drummer still wearing it - so i slugged it "Give The Drummer Some".

11:05am Doug Schulkind:

That made me grin deeply, Maggie.

11:09am still b/p:

You'll want some book time on the vacay:
andenglishmen.tumblr.com...

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

Since this documentary was first broadcast, a live recording of Coltrane at Temple University presents evidence of Trane beating his chest and chanting during a live performance. Chilling stuff.

11:10am Doug Schulkind:

Oh the books I'll be reading, still b/p!

11:18am Dean:

My deepest, most sincere sympathies, Doug. Trying to catch up here after a few days away with my 90YO mother. Brought the kids, and there was a lot of childlike laughter for the three days we visited. But I know the worry that an aging parent can provoke. Boy, do I know it.

Another book title: John A. Farrell's new biography, Richard Nixon: The Life. Truly, a delightful read, replete with new details of Nixon's life, including Farrell's fair journalistic attempts to psychoanalyze a President well worth psychoanalyzing.

11:18am Doug Schulkind:

Olatunji drop more knowledge in 2 minutes than in 20 books about music.

11:20am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
Love to you and your mom. Thanks. That book sounds like a perfect read for me. But I promise to continue to despise Nixon no matter how humanized he gets.

11:28am Doug Schulkind:

July 17 this year, the 50th anniversary of John's death, is also a Monday.

11:28am Dean:

Thanks, Doug. True. Farrell certainly humanizes him and gives him credit where due. This gives the reader leave to despise the man, rather than the office, which is understandably how we tend to relate to POTUS. For example, Nixon's racism (and anti-Semitism and sexism) was deep, and yet he occasionally struggled to overcome it. But when racism afforded him political leverage, he exercised it mightily.

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11:28am doctorjazz:

Want to catch the "Get Me Roger Stone" doc, seems he spent lots of time with Richard Nixon, and is a big fan of Tricky Dick.

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11:29am doctorjazz:

Seems Stone cut his teeth with the Nixon Tricksters.

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

Stone is still doing his dark work.

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11:31am doctorjazz:

He's the man behind Trumpster (or at least one of them, and one of the earliest to see him as a Presidential Candidate)

11:31am Doug Schulkind:

Those edits of Baraka's poem are on the original documentary.

11:33am Dean:

I thought Stone appeared in the book, but he's not in the index. A footnote on a page midway through enumerates a "list of prime movers in American politics and government who cut their teeth with Nixon." BTW, the book is mostly end-noted, most of which are mere references to sources, rather than substantive glosses. The text flows uninterrupted.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
I am the world's biggest fan of Robert Caro and his LBJ volumes. Waiting for the final volume has been excruciating.

11:43am Doug Schulkind:

So so many voices interviewed in this documentary who are now gone: Olatunji, Alice Coltrane, Steve Lacy, Rashied Ali, Amiri Baraka, Sekou Sundiata, Makanda—just from this episode alone.

11:46am Doug Schulkind:

The wonderful Bobby Zankel is still with us and is participating in a number of fantastic Coltrane 50th anniversary happenings in Philadelphia.

11:48am Jeff:

I've been torn about watching the Stone doc. On the one hand, it'd add detail to my knowledge of the destruction that a-hole has helped cause, which I guess is good. On the other hand, I have enough rage in my life.

11:50am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome Jeff "The man who made today's show possible" Moore!

@Jeff
I am waiting for Roger Stone's Lee Atwater-style deathbed mea culpas. Mostly, I am just waiting for Roger Stone to reach his deathbed.

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11:52am doctorjazz:

No one wants to mention Wynton...he seems to have come around, though, the Lincoln Center programming got much more innovative, less retrospective.

11:55am Dean:

"Wrung Slonimsky out to dry"? Did I mis-hear?

11:55am Dean:

(Buddy of mine knew Slonimsky.)

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Wynton the Irrelevant.

@Dean
I heard Stravinsky.

11:56am Dean:

Ah, roll over, Beethoven.

11:57am Doug Schulkind:

But Slominsky makes complete sense:

"...a Russian-born American conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective..."

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11:58am duke:

Thanks Sir Doug. Have a wonderful restful vacation

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11:58am JtotheK:

thanks doug, for airing these docs!

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11:58am doctorjazz:

Slominsky, Slomoutsky...

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11:58am listener james from westwood:

Adding my thumbs-up for the Farrell Nixon. And the endnotes are worth reading. There's a by-turns horrifying and hilarious note re: Nixon and someone else escaping from one donor or other big macher's house after the butler rats him out.

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11:59am doctorjazz:

Have fun, Doug!

11:59am coelacanth∅:

Thank you Doug. (sorry i didn't say hi...i snuck in very late.)

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12:00pm listener james from westwood:

@Doug, I would settle for Stone to be denied even a bed at the hour of his death. Drainage canal or industrial ore crusher is more suitable.

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12:00pm listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Doug, and safest of travels northeast!

12:00pm Ramblin' Ray:

Beautiful stuff

12:58pm Gtdsfan:

Doug, where is the chest beating on Temple recording?

1:01pm Doug Schulkind:

@Gtdsfan
Did I get that wrong? I'm pretty sure I remember it being discussed in the liner notes. I'm not at home with my copy or I'd look for it.

1:12pm Gtdsfan:

I still haven't listened to Temple. I am curious with track itveaz on.

1:12pm Gtdsfan:

*which track it's on

1:14pm Doug Schulkind:

Will investigate when I get back home. I'll be curious to see if my mind made the whole thing up. Fun!

6:53pm coelacanth∅:

oh man Doug i just decided to listen to your archive, even though i know part 5, which i missed 25 minutes of, wont be here; but the first 2 hours...
my heart feels for you and i send healing and Love - the best i can -to you and your family.
i'm Thankful he left whilst sleeping. it's easy for people who haven't done it to imagine it's the most peaceful way. -and i'm Thankful for your relief.

Peace be with you; and Peace be with him.

8:47pm Doug Schulkind:

@Gtdsfan
On that Coltrane at Temple University set, it is the track "Leo" where Trane stops playing his horn and beating his chest while chanting.

8:47pm Doug Schulkind:

@coelacanth∅
Thank you thank you for your kind words and thoughts!

2:56pm Gtdsfan:

Thank you, Doug! (Good job on your brain experiment!)

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Wilbur Sweatman’s Original Jazz Band	A Good Man Is Hard to Find	b/w That's Got 'Em (Columbia 1919)
The Savoy Quartet	Hindustan	b/w Ja-Da (HMV 1919)
Edward Meeker	Ev'ry Day'll Be Sunday When the Town Goes Dry	(Edison 1919)
Eddie Cantor	I Never Knew I Had a Wonderful Wife (Until the Town Went Dry)	b/w When It Comes to Loving the Girls (I'm Away Ahead of the Times) (Pathé 1919)
Dabney's Band	Slow Drag Blues	b/w Beautiful Ohio Blues (Aeolian Vocalion 1919)
Banda Columbia	Juarez	Hey Familia: Así Llegó El Danzón
Abe Schwartz's Orchestra	Bessarabia Hangi	Master of Klezmer Music, Voume 2 - National Hora ( 1919)
Bert Williams	Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar	b/w It's Nobody's Business But My Own (Columbia 1919)

Louis Armstrong And His Savoy Ballroom Five	Tight Like This	( 1928)
Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra	Son of the Sun	(Domino 1930)
Teddy Wilson	Blues in C Sharp Minor	b/w Warmin' Up (Brunswick 1936)
Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton	Pitter Patter Panther	b/w Sophisticated Lady (Victor 1940)
Billie Holiday	Some Other Spring	(Vocalion 1939)
Sarah Vaughan	East of the Sun	( 1944)
Lee Wiley	My Funny Valentine	Sings Rodgers and Hart (Storyville 1954)
Frank Sinatra	Fools Rush In	( 1940)
Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul	( 1939)

Thony Shorby Nyenwi	Forgiveness	Sweet Funk Music (Feathers 1978)
Mary Afi Usuah & South Eastern State Cultural Band	Ekpenyong Abasi	Ekpenyong Abasi (SESCULT 1975)
Akido	Happy Song	Akido (Mercury 1972)

Esther Phillips	Just Say Goodbye	b/w I Could Have Told You (Atlantic 1965)
Fontella Bass	Safe and Sound	b/w You'll Never Ever Know (Checker 1966)
Shirley Lawson	One More Chance	b/w The Star (Back Beat 1966)
Brendetta Davis	Until You Were Gone	b/w I Can't Make It Without Him (Liberty 1968)
Bettye LaVette	Do Your Duty	b/w Love's Made a Fool Out of Me (Silver Fox 1970)
Ann Sexton	You've Been Gone Too Long	b/w You're Letting Me Down (Seventy Seven 1972)
Irma Thomas	What's So Wrong with You Loving Me	In Between Tears (Fungus 1973)
Ann Peebles	The Handwriting Is on the Wall	The Handwriting Is on the Wall (Hi 1978)

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