Genre: garage
Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The 13th Song
Company: Golden Eagle
Catalog: LP 101
Country/State: El Campo, Texas
Year: 1965
Grade (cover/record): NM / NM
Comments: --
Available: 1
GEMM Catalog ID: not yet listed
Price: $50.00
Formed in El Campo, Texas (they quickly
relocated to Houston), this five piece (listed as Freddy, Wayne, Elton,
Kenneth and George), spent six years playing the Texas
club circuit before scoring a recording contract with the small
Houston-based Golden Eagle label.
Produced by Charlie Booth (the liner notes claim the album was recorded
live), "The 13th Song"
offered up a classic example of mid-1960s garage rock. An enthusiastic, if
occasionally sloppy mixture of well and lesser known covers, the results
were surprisingly engaging. While the entire album was worth hearing, the
band showed particular skill at blue-eyed soul covers. Not to be
missed were covers of Otis Redding's 'Mr. Pitiful' and (complete with goofy spoken
interlude), Wilson Pickett's 'I Found a Love'. Other highlights
included a cover of Ed Cobb's 'Good Guys Don't Wear White', 'Muscle Bound Man', an organ propelled
'Little Latin Lupe
Lu' and their 'Devil with the Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss
Molly' medley. Always loved the high price artwork. Nice matching silk
shirts guys. Believe it or not, it's an album I've burned on CD and play
time after time ...
"The 13th Song" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) Come Back Home (Charly Romans) -
2.) Good Guys Don't Wear White (Ed Cobb) -
3.) Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Eddie Holland - Norman Whitefield) -
4.) Good Loving (Clark - Resnick) -
5.) Soul and Inspiration (Barry Mann - Cynthia Weil) -
6.) Muscle Bound Man (unknown) -
(side 2)
1.) I Found a Love
(Wilson Pickett - W. Schofield - R. West) -
2.) Mr. Pitiful (Steve Cropper - Otis Redding) -
3.) Devil with the Blue Dress & Good Golly Miss Molly (unlisted) -
4.) Little Latin Lipe Lu (Bill Medley) -
5,) Sam's Place (R. Simpson - Buck Owens) -
6.) Joley Blond (Buddy Dee) -
7.) - ? - (E. McDaniel) -