Sounds Of Soul chronicles and playlist (02.05.2014): To vinyl or not to vinyl…

Lately a couple of well-intentioned friends questioned my total dedication to vinyl as the sole medium to play out music, be it on the airwaves or as deejay in clubs. I feel touched by my friends’ worry about potential damage done to my spinal cord and my record collection due to frequently carrying and spinning heavy wax, but rest assured that both areas of concern are in pretty good nick with a couple of more years of heavy rotation ahead. There are other reasons than the obvious workout factor for me to prefer plastic platters over a memory stick. First of all I never intended to collect records to treat them like a stamp-collection – they were always meant to be played, not looked at, and I like to share that experience. Secondly I like the slight imperfections of vinyl that make the music feel alive and original – digitalized versions of analogue recordings are by nature always alterations, consequently I think that playing it in the way the artists intended it to sound like, is the way to pay the musicians the upmost respect. Thirdly these shiny things and turntables look much better than laptop and memory stick plus there is an appealing romanticism in using wax that is impossible to arouse via digitalized media. So despite my friends advice I hauled another stack of vinyl to Eastside and picked the following for last week’s show:

Cania/Visions/7″ Tammy Jo

Patti Jo/Ain’t No Love Lost/7″ Scepter Records

The Montclairs/I Need You More Then Ever    /7″ Paula Records

Joe Anderson/You And I/7″ Buddah

Jimmy Jones/Ain’t Nothing Wrong, Making Love The First Night/7″ Conchillo Rcords

Walter Jackson/If I Had My Way/7″ Chi Sound / UA records

Innervision/Honey Baby (Be Mine)/7″ Private Stock

Randy Brown/I’m Always In The Mood/7″ Parachute

Watts Line/Never Stop Lovin’ Me/7″ Bullet

Fantastic Four/I Got To Have Your Love/7″ Westbound

Phyllis Hyman/You Know How To Love Me/7″ Arista

Scarbrough/Make Love To You/7″ E. J. Scarbrough

Atlantic Starr/Circles/7″ AM Records

Gladys Knight & The Pips/ Baby, Baby Don’t Waste My Time/LP Touch/Columbia

Jean Carn/If You Wanna Go Back/7″ Philadelphia International Rec.

Isaac Hayes/Wonderful/7″ Enterprise

Rare Gems/You’ve Got My Love/7″ California Gold

Vise/Baby, I Love You/7″ Chocolate Mama Records

Anthony Watson/I Can’t Stop This Feeling/7″ SRO

Willy Wiley/Just Be Glad/7″ King

Ruby Andrews/Casonova/7″ Zodiac

Leon Haywood/It’s Got To Be Mellow/7″ Decca

The Emotions/Got To Be A Man/7″ Volt

The Impressions/We’re A Winner/7″ abc

Gene Redding/I Need Your Lovin’/7″ Bell

You can listen back to the last four Sounds Of Soul shows at our program page:

https://eastsidefm.org/specialist/soundsofsoul/

DJ Burn Hard