Lee Dorsey

This long out-of-print LP, released in 1967 on the Instant label, was my first exposure to the wonders of Allen Toussaint's 1960-1963 New Orleans pop productions. (read more) Joe Banashak was a New Orleans record king who ran several record labels, all of which, in 1960 through 1963, featured the songwriting, piano/playing and/or arranging of Allen Toussaint, behind dozens of acts. While Banashak's Minit-label recordings have been decently represented in digital-era compilations, the equally great recordings which appeared on Banashak's Instant (originally Valiant), Alon, and Seven B labels have been tragically under-anthologized. (Perhaps he was behind Airecords*, too, which released the rare, strangely brief Aaron Neville single featured here? His label Instant put out a wretched remix of these two songs in 1967, but they aren't the versions that appear here.) This LP is just the tip of the iceberg. And even many of these mixes and edits are entirely out of print. Please consider this upload to be my plea for this material --and the other works of these artists and their labelmates-- to be better anthologized and remembered. Only two of these recordings do not involve Allen Toussaint: "Pass the Hatchet" is an Eddie Bo production recorded after Toussaint had been drafted into the US army. And the Pitter Pats were a later project of Huey "Piano" Smith. Contents: 0:07 All These Things - Art Neville (1962) 2:29 Lover Of Love - Lee Dorsey (1960) 4:56 Something You Got - Chris Kenner (1961) 7:48 Pass The Hatchet - Roger and the Gypsies [=Earl Stanley and the Stereos w/ Eddie Bo vocalizing] (1965) 10:49 It Do Me Good - The Pitter Pats [ = writers Huey "Piano" Smith and Brenda Brandon, w vocals by Alex Scott and Gloria Franklin] (1966) 13:50 I've Done It Again - Aaron Neville (1963) 15:31 Young Man, Old Man - The Stokes [Allen Toussaint's instrumental band] (1966) 18:29 Land Of 1000 Dances - Chris Kenner (1962) 20:59 Lottie Mo - Lee Dorsey (1960) 23:42 New Kind Of Love - Willie Harper (1961) 25:57 I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt On You - Raymond Lewis (1962) 28:42 For Every Boy There's A Girl - Aaron Neville (1963) Please note that the strange pitch problems on "Young Man, Old Man" seem to be a part of the original pressing of the LP, either the result of a bad dub or a bad cut. The recording gradually slows by an entire key over its duration. Label photos yanked from various internet sources. http://www.45cat.com was especially helpful. *NevilleTracks reports that "Airecords" is probably a printing error, and the Aaron Neville label should have read "A1Records." Joe Banashak ran A-1 Record Distributors, so this seems quite plausible.

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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