KOSMO's VINYL of the Week

Malcolm Mclaren, "Double Dutch"

10/29/2021

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in the New York-London-South Africa triangle of 1982 for Malcolm McLaren's "Double Dutch" from his Trevor Horn produced album "Duck Rock", first released on Charisma Records in 1983...

"Probably still best known as the man behind the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren was London born in 1946. In 1982 he seriously embarked on a career as a solo recording artist and it is his first LP "Duck Rock"- a funky hip hop world music hybrid, that remains my favourite. "Double Dutch", a tribute to both the rope skipping game/sport and the girls that play it, went to #3 in the U.K.Charts. Sadly, Malcolm left us in 2010, dying from cancer in Switzerland.

P.S: I wore my Ebonettes t-shirt until it fell apart." KV

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Sam Cooke, "Lost and Lookin'"

10/22/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, 1510 N.Vine St., Hollywood on February 25th 1963 for Sam Cooke's version of "Lost and Lookin' " first released on his "Night Beat" LP in August 1963.

"Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1931 and moved to Chicago as a child. His father being a minister, Sam began performing gospel music as a boy and at age 19 he joined The Soul Stirrers an established and successful Gospel Quartet. In 1957 Sam quit gospel for secular music and made over 30 U.S.Top 40 Hits before his death in 1964. He was shot dead during an altercation with a motel manager - the verdict "justifiable homicide". The "Night Beat" LP is well worth checking out as it presents his voice within a small combo setting, as opposed to the sometimes heavy orchestration of his hits." KV

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Althea & Donna, "Uptown Top Ranking"

10/15/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in Joe Gibbs' Studio, Retirement Crescent, Kingston, Jamaica in 1977 for Althea and Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking" first released on the Joe Gibbs label...

Jamaicans Althea Forest was 17 and Donna Reid 18 when they recorded this version of the "I'm So In Love With You" rhythm. I have always considered it a "reply" record to Trinity's "Three Piece Suit " first released by Joe Gibbs in 1975. In February 1978 this became a UK #1 hit, after some early boosting from John Peel. They never repeated their success, but they sure looked like they were having a lot of fun while it was happening. Absolutely irresistible !" KV

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Charlie Feathers, "One Hand Loose"

10/8/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are back in King Records Studio, 1549 Brewster St. Cincinnati on 18th August 1956 for "One Hand Loose" by Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry, first released as a single on King...

"Although recorded in Cincinnati, this record is pure Memphis 1956, with Jody Chastain on bass and Jerry Huffman on guitar. Like Elvis, Charlie Feathers was born in Mississippi and moved to Memphis as a kid. He also hung around Sun Studios (co-writing "I Forget To Remember to Forget") and worked at Crown Electric ! One of the great rockabilly originals, Feathers always stuck close to the sound and/or its Country and Blues roots. He died aged 66 in 1998 of complications from a stroke." KV

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Alice Coltrane, "Turiya and Ramakrishna"

10/1/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in the Dix Hills, Long Island, N.Y. of January 1970, for Alice Coltrane's "Turiya and Ramakrishna" from her "Ptah, the El Daoud" LP released on Impulse...

"Detroit born in 1937 as Alice McLeod, the classically trained jazz pianist and harpist became Alice Coltrane when she married John Coltrane in 1965. She performed live with her husband until his death in 1967 and I believe that after that she became very involved in the Hindu faith, eventually becoming a swamini. She died in 2007in Los Angeles. I had wrongly thought that she had only played harp and when I heard this a couple of years back I immediately fell under its spell. It was recorded in the basement of her home, with Ron Carter on bass and Ben Riley on Drums." KV

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