KOSMO's VINYL of the Week

Jackie DeShannon, "When You Walk in the Room"

3/27/2020

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in the Los Angeles of 1963 for Jackie DeShannon's self-penned "When You Walk In The Room", produced by Dick Glasser and first released on Liberty Records...

"Jackie DeShannon was born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky in 1941. She became something of a regional child star, singing country and western on the local radio by age 13 and by making her first record at 16 as Jackie Dee. I first knew this one as a hit for the English group The Searchers, it was fairly unusual back then for girl singers to have hits with their own material, but Jackie went on to write/co-write quite a few for herself and others.

In 1964, she opened for The Beatles on their first U.S.Tour with a band that included Ry Cooder. Ten years later she would co-write and be the first to record the song "Bette Davis Eyes"." - KV

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John Coltrane, "Equinox"

3/20/2020

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are back in Atlantic Recording Studios, 1841 Broadway (W. 60th St), NYC in late October 1960 for John Coltrane's "Equinox", which was first released on the "Coltrane's Sound" LP in 1964...

"With Nesuhi Ertegun producing and Tom Dowd engineering, "Equinox" was recorded at the same sessions that gave us the "My Favorite Things" LP. The band behind Coltrane were Elvin Jones, Steve Davis and the only recently departed McCoy Tyner (R.I.P. Sir). The entire "Coltrane's Sound" LP consisted of tracks from these sessions and had I known that earlier, I certainly would have acquired the LP sooner.

It is said of John Coltrane that he was a serious blues player and here he shows us there is more than one way to skin that cat !" - KV

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Joe Ely, "Boxcars"

3/13/2020

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, although mentally we are in Lubbock, West Texas for
Joe Ely's version of Butch Hancock's "Boxcars", first released in 1978 on the "Honky Tonk Masquerade" LP....

"It was the road-manager-supreme / writer, Johnny Green, that first introduced The Clash to Joe Ely, after which it was just a matter of time before all became fast friends. That friendship and mutual appreciation did much to help introduce country music to a whole new generation of fans and change many people's perception of the form. At this time, Hancock and Ely were former bandmates but still very close, and eventually they would re-form their original band The Flatlanders with high school pal Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

How Lubbock ended up with so much talent at one time is best answered by the ghost of Buddy Holly." KV

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Alton Ellis, "Tumbling Tears"

3/6/2020

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are back in Studio One, Brentford Road (now renamed Studio One Boulevard), Kingston Jamaica in 196? with Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd producing Alton Ellis' "Tumbling Tears", first released in 1969 as a b-side on Coxsone...

"Without a doubt, Trench Town born Alton Nehemiah Ellis was one of the giants of rock steady, a style that became popular in Jamaica in the mid 1960s when the ska rhythm was slowed down. First recording in 1959, while still a building site labourer, Alton had numerous hits recording for both Studio One and its rival, Duke Reid's Treasure Isle. He also went on to father 20 - yes twenty - children!" - KV

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