3 posts tagged “sixties”

Here's a real old one from someone whom probably no one here knows.  Henson Cargill was a bar singer, who was trying to make it big in Nashville.  He had a few singles and a few near-misses, but this one actually was a hit.  A pretty big hit, in fact.  And, also, his only hit.  The thing with this one is that the song was actually written for Johnny Cash to sing -- at the last moment, he decided not to cut it, and gave it to Henson Cargill, who did cut it, and went to No. 1 with it.  If I recall, Henson Cargill's still performing the occasional show, so you can go see him!  And you should -- he did a fine job with this wonderful song.

By the way, I've still got some VOX invites, so if you want one, shoot me an email.  If you can't find my email on here, here are some hints:  My username here is the same AT livejournal.com, where I am a paid member.  If you do go for this, and do it like an mp3 blog like I am, I'd really like to encourage y'all to put your notes here, like I do.  Hint Hint.

Today, I decided to post whatever mp3 came up on a random search.  This is actually the second, because the first was a commercial break from a Sparks bootleg I gots.  I figured that people probably wouldn't want to have a 1982 ad for Coors, so I did it again and got this.  This is from the Couleur Cafe collection, and it's by Serge Gainsbourg, and that's all I know.  I haven't even listened to this one yet.  So here you go, it's new to you AND me.  Luckily, it turned out to be pretty cool -- I liked it!

It's funny, because I've only had this a day, and I'm already thinking of tweaking it from a straight mp3 blog to just a Standard Media Blog where I rant about movies and whatnot as well, too.  But my (current, at least) plan is to upload one mp3 per day, and write about it and all that good stuff.  So anyway, here is today's mp3, which is NUMBER TWO! 

This is one of my favorite pop-soul singles; it was R. B. Greaves' only hit record (though his cover of "Always Something There To Remind Me" apparently did somewhat decently at the time).  This is from his first record, called R. B. Greaves (as opposed to his second record, which was called R. B. Greaves).  I actually don't have R. B. Greaves (nor R. B. Greaves for that matter), but I've grown up with this song playing relatively frequently on the local oldies radio station.  It's such a good cut.  I did a little bit of research before uploading this, but could find basically SQUAT about him.  He's apparently Sam Cooke's nephew, and he wrote this song, and after a couple records, basically seems to have disappeared and ended up being forgotten by the world at large, which is really sad.  I need to pick up his records, because if his other stuff is as good as this song, MAN, dude's awesome.  Hell, dude's awesome anyway even if all his other stuff is absolutely horrible -- this song absolves him of all potential musical sins.  So check it out.  Listen to it.  Download it via the RSS feed (or, if you figured out another way to download stuff, let me know -- either in the comments or whatnot, I'm curious).