'Wild and Peaceful' excerpt
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more previews below
This album's been on the blogosphere before, but I wanted to get a full quality rip up here.
When Barack Obama gave his nomination speech the other day, much was made of the fact that it fell on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's famous Washington speech, and many were moved to think about the progress that had been made in the intervening years.
This album comes about a decade into that progress : In January 1969, newly elected African American representatives of the 77th U.S. Congress joined six incumbents to form the "Democratic Select Committee". In 1971 the Committee was renamed the Congressional Black Caucus.
In 1974 someone had the great idea of holding concerts and dinners featuring Kool and the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight and The Pips, War, and Jimmy Witherspoon, to raise money for the caucus' activities, and this album features excerpts from those events in September ...
back cover detailThis is a great funky album, capturing everyone at the top of their game. After a series of crowd "Amen!"s for the artists, Kool and the Gang kick off with a thirteen minute version of the jazzy instrumental "Wild and Peaceful" , the title track from their 1973 album rhodes, flute and a sax solo that builds and sustains.
'Give Me Your Love' excerpt
Gladys Knight tells us that she and the Pips had just completed the soundtrack for the film "Claudine" with Mayfield, and they launch into a version of that albums's funkiest track "On and On", written by Mayfield.
'Gypsy Man' excerpt
War members Howard Johnson and Lonnie Jordan produced this album along with Jerry Goldstein.
Bluesman Jimmy Witherspoon completes the proceedings with an intimate version of "Goin' Down Slow", with a sudden breakout guitar solo from Robben Ford.
So enjoy this album, and don't be fooled by "pro-life" hockey moms, support Obama in '08!
TRACKLIST
01. "Wild and Peaceful" - Kool & The Gang (13:13)
Written by Ronald Dell - Kool and the Gang
02. "Give Me Your Love" - Curtis Mayfield (6:20)
Written by Curtis Mayfield
03. "On and On" - Gladys Knight And The Pips (3.40)
Written by Curtis Mayfield
04. "Gypsy Man" - War (16:10)
Written by S.Allan, H.R. Brown, M.Dickerson, L.Jordan, C.Miller, L.Oscar, H.Scott
05. "Goin' Down Slow" - Jimmy Witherspoon (6.25)
Written by J. Witherspoon.
Tracks 1, 2, 4 recorded at Capitol Centre, Largo, Maryland , September 25th, 1974
Tracks 3, 5 recorded at Black Caucus Dinner at Washington Hilton September 27, 1974
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Chess Records CH 60037
Produced by Howard Scott , Jerry Goldstein , Lonnie Jordan for Far Out Productions Inc. and GRT Corporation.
Manufactured by GRT Corporation
Remix Engineer - Ed Barton
Recording Engineer - Andrew Berliner
Executive Producer - Nate McCalla
01. "Wild and Peaceful" - Kool & The Gang (13:13)
Written by Ronald Dell - Kool and the Gang
02. "Give Me Your Love" - Curtis Mayfield (6:20)
Written by Curtis Mayfield
03. "On and On" - Gladys Knight And The Pips (3.40)
Written by Curtis Mayfield
04. "Gypsy Man" - War (16:10)
Written by S.Allan, H.R. Brown, M.Dickerson, L.Jordan, C.Miller, L.Oscar, H.Scott
05. "Goin' Down Slow" - Jimmy Witherspoon (6.25)
Written by J. Witherspoon.
Tracks 1, 2, 4 recorded at Capitol Centre, Largo, Maryland , September 25th, 1974
Tracks 3, 5 recorded at Black Caucus Dinner at Washington Hilton September 27, 1974
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Chess Records CH 60037
Produced by Howard Scott , Jerry Goldstein , Lonnie Jordan for Far Out Productions Inc. and GRT Corporation.
Manufactured by GRT Corporation
Remix Engineer - Ed Barton
Recording Engineer - Andrew Berliner
Executive Producer - Nate McCalla
64 comments:
NO YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!!!
SIMON!!! SIMON!!! SIMON!!!
You already know I've left a collection of comments on what you've posted previously.
On behalf of the leeching world with cinged fingertips who are unable to salute you but use those same digits to click the link with the mouse to put your time and work on their hard drive.......
THANK YOU!!
That's all for Mayfield's version of Gimme Your Love!!
Mr. Wone
As a matter of fact, this message is being sent to you from the after-life.......... I'm already in heaven.
And this band is playin' the hell out of Gimme Your Love.......
Lord, have mercy on us all.
SIMON SIMON SIMON!!!!
I did not even know about this, but a live "Wild and Peaceful" at 13 minutes! THANK YOU!!!
This is a fun album. Let's all send that hockey mom back to Alaska with a warm DC vibration. : )
Man Simon666 I must say you have like the best blog on the net. This is deep music that you post. Stuff for your mind, Keep it up!
I'm in complete awe of the generosity of this. It's beautiful music from first note to the last. Big love from Blaxploitationpride!
MANY THANKS SIMON FOR A SUPERB POSTING-PART OF BLACK MUSIC HISTORY!
I have been looking for this one! Damn you! And I mean that in a good way! ;)
First Mark II, now this. Great stuff, Simon. Thanks for both.
Thank you my man.....i can't wait to check this out.....appreciate the effort and hard work....Peace
Messiah
Very cool. I'd never heard of this, but am excited to hear it. Thanks.
yo simon
you remember my problem for opening Leon Ware - Rockin' You Eternally with sound editors (sound forge), converters (music converter) and burners (nero), right? of course i gave up on Leon Ware, but strangely the wav files for Mark Murphy II were nicely working, while Shamek Farrah - First Impressions are doing exactly the same fuss, refusing to be opened with anything else than players (winamp). hopefully your investigations drove you to the solution because i'm totally desperate that i can't take advantages from these wav files :(
i'm crossing fingers for this one...
another fuckin' banger ...
thanks simon
thanks nice album
Simon, you spoil me and everybody out there who visits here :-)
being a huge Curtis fan and early War too btw, I must say I'm thrilled to have a chance to hear these versions...I expect that "Wattstax" kinda vibe, I guess.
Thanks as big as the world and everything on it! -you had any chance of listening to that Kiruna yet?
(I know you're a busy man :-)
peace, E-mile
Thanks for the nice comments guys.
Emile : Still have to get into work to download (slowed here another three days), will be onto it soon!
Oui :
The Shamek Farrah files come from CD, like the Ware files, and thus are aiff files - all the vinyl rips (like this one) have been created as wav files.
As noted before, I didn't specifically add the .aiff extension on those two CD rips, so this may need to be done.
* Could someone recommend for Oui a PC program that reads/converts aiff files to WAV ?
Hi Simon
Always thank you sooo much.
And Oui
Try this one. TWE Wave Editor v2.31
This YAMAHA'S freeware is able to convert from Aiff to Wav, from Wav to Aiff.
I wish your problem to be a solution by this.
Peace
el goog
back from a long vacation away from the Net and what do I find but numerous massive posts -- including this gem.
Salivating about this one already -- I know it's going to be a killer...
TN
Props for this. Thanks so much.
El Slick
great as always, simon.
top quality music.
Thanks again, Simon. After hearing it at a mate's some years back, I've been keeping my eye out for this one. Love the play-by-play review.
I've noticed recently that a lot of .aiff files made w/ iTunes or Garage Band can not be converted to .wav w/o those same software apps. Never had a problem with the format until the emergence of iPods. I'll try El Goog's solution but so far I've just had to steer clear of .aiff files altogether.
Thanks again for comments guys.
Cheeba, Re the AIFF problem - I didn't use those apps - for the two problem albums (Leon Ware's "Rocking You Eternally" and Shamek Farrah's "First Impressions") I just dragged the tracks off CDs, and they come up marked as AIFF on my comp.
I've re-labelled them "AIFF" and when I get a chance will actually convert to those two to WAV and re-up. All the other albums marked as "WAV" here are recorded from vinyl into Protools as WAVs, so should be fine ...
great. thanks!
Many thx. This Is so great.
Wonderfull. Thank You Very Much!!!
TN
Seriously..Thank You!!
Ages ago I mentioned another live date with an odd combination of acts and a terrific live version of War's "Gypsy Man." I was finally going to put it up on my blog when I discovered it's already up elsewhere. Anyway, the album is an odd hodgepodge but don't miss the Willie Bobo and the awesome Gypsy Man.
http://blog-o-blog-douglass.blogspot.com/2007/11/various-artists-1973-live-at-watts-jazz.html
Hmmm. Not only is the "Live at Watts" version as good as the one Simon's offering here, I believe it's exactly the same! So which album is lying? Watts 1973 or Maryland 1974? Other opinions?
Thanks for sharing, can't wait to give it a try. BTW: Mediafire link 1 seems to be down.
I know this is a long shot here, but is there anyway to re-up the links? I used to have this LP on vinyl, lost it along the way somehow and thought I'd never see it ever again. But low and behold, your awesome blog had it at one point. Thanks in advance.
I'm getting a little afraid that my blog is under attack. Someone's deleted the uploads for my latest post, and now this one. I will upload at some stage, but am too busy right now. Leave a comment with a blogger account to be informed.
Thanks Simon. I'll login with a blogger account to see what's up.
Cheers.
Again, I thank you. I'm logged in with a blogger account (I believe). Just wondering what's up?
Hi Madjik,
Nothing's up for now, it's just that if you leave a message here from a blogger account (like you have now) , you'll get an email when I post here that I've re-upped the files (which coud be more than a week .. )
Cool. Thanks man.
Patiently waiting for the re-ups. Many thanks. ;-)
yes, i'll be waiting...many thanks
Same here - would love to see this.
Thanks
hey simon could u send me an email too? thanx alot
Oh, this would be so nice to have - can you reup please? Thanks! Love your blog.
Pff if it would be possible to re-upload this, that would be marvellous!!
Yes, Simon! Please re-up sometime... Best regards for your incredible offers - bwana
Hi guys, new links in the post.
Hey Simon thanks for the time and effort put into presenting this great LP !!!
Thanks this was everything
Thanks for comments, Franco and Ghostra Nostra :)
Mannnn your amazing! !! Thankz Simon!
My fingers just got unhinged. Thank you and totally agree. it only takes a little bit of time and you get so much more. thank you
Thank you very much! Never knew this existed. How great that the track listing consists of interesting and not so obvious choices.
Thanks for this, I remember the album back in the day, but for some reason I didn`t like live albums at the time. I now regret that and you`ve given me a chance to redeem myself. Thank you!
I own this vinyl - and join in thanks with the others for your upload of this stellar rip. Don't mean just to leech, the quality on this is awesome to behold. Again, thanks!
What a great album. Thanks so much!
YES! I was one of the requesters earlier of a re-up, and hadn't checked back here lately so I'm so glad I did! I too have this on vinyl, but can't wait to hear it on iPod and in high quality. THANK YOU for this, Simon!
Nothing short of amazing . . A sentence or two doesn't seem to do it justice to you . Thanks for letting us all enjoy.. Mom will be pleased :->
Thank you so much for this collection. Incredible music & good quality uploads.
Priceless
Thank you very much for sharing!
Peace,
Don Julian
Wonderful share. Thanks!
Thank you Simon!
Thanks Richsoul, anonymous x 6, Bill, J-P, Southern Gentleman, apf, rochus & Muff Diver for your comments, happy that people are still enjoying this :)
Thank you for your wonderful work, from South Africa.
Wow. Never knew this existed until now. Thanks so much for sharing!
jost copped this in 2018--- album banger!
Just discovered - Thank you!
I really hope you know how happy you make people. thanks
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