NY Night Train,s Daily Party Platter YouTube just kicked into gear last week! Visit the playlist every day to see what’s cookin’…
From the original 1966 vinyl 45 LOS YAKI “NADIE COMO YO” on Mexican Capitol Records
I’m doing my thing in Mexico City at Pata Negra tonight so its only appropriate that today’s YouTube Daily Party Platter is a killer Mexican 45! This one comes from a 1966 Los Yaki 7-inch e.p. where they take on the Human Beinz canonical cover of the Isley Brothers’ “Nobody But Me”… with stellar results!
NY Night Train’s Daily Party Platter YouTube just kicked into gear this week! Visit the playlist every day to see what’s cookin’…
L.A. Record asked me to give them ten Los Angeles 45s that they I may play at Sunday’s big NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off at the 850-capacity Regent Theater. The list is on their site here. And you can go to my playlist for it here…
Thee Midniters “Jump, Jive, and Harmonize” (Whittier, 1967)
– May 22 Chinatown – Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! with JONATHAN TOUBIN and guest DJ ROGER MARS of LA’S CRETIN HOP PARTY Facebook event
A few weeks ago I came across this Decca version of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put A Spell On You” at Detroit’s People’s Records. Since “All Night,” one of my favorites, is also the same label from the same period, and since, what the heck, he’s the best singer/performer/musical personality of all time (I always buy even his worst stuff!), I adopted this puppy and gave it a home with me back in New York City! And it’s been driving the dancers wild ever since!
Jonathan Toubin’s NY Night Train Daily Party Platter YouTube just kicked into gear today! Visit the playlist every day to see what’s cookin’…
Today’s platter is Chicago West Side blues siblings’ Eddie King and Mae B. May’s 1967 winner on Conduc records “Please Mr. DJ”
The inaugural track of the NY Night Train “Daily Party Platter” series is a supremely spicy slab of wax! Its hard to go wrong when raw electric blues collides with a raw rhythm and blues beat. This pleading minor key diamond takes the cake with all of its intensity and wild pleading vocals. “Please Mr. DJ! Play my song!” What song is that? Are they begging for something that sounds like this? I hope so! The rough production and primal nature of the thing makes it difficult to believe this is a 1967 recording! I would’ve guessed five years earlier… Is your hair standing on end yet?
Eddie King was an Alabama-born Chicago West Side blues guitarist who worked with Little Mac early on, led his own band and was recorded by Willie Dixon. Mae B. May was his little sister who was reluctant to sing at first (hence her nickname – “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t”) but when she got down to it, the wind reakky blew through those mighty pipes! Not long after this single the siblings separated. King would become Koko Taylor’s longtime guitarist and Mae drifted back and forth between music and raising her ten children – doing a brief stint in Lonnie Brooks’ legendary band. The duo reunited nearly two decades later for their first and only LP “Blues Has Got Me” before parting ways again. Eddie King just passed away in 2012.
JONATHAN TOUBIN/ NYNT PARTY BOOKING jonathan not only plays the types of public events listed here but also does regular weddings, birthday parties, and other private events
