King Pleasure / Red Top & Jumping with Symphony Sid

[zenbooter]

had to stay up tillmidnight to catch the show,was so cool,just to realise you dug jazz,and to be so young

[peacenikkie]

Memories!! Thank you!

[Lightmane321]

go baby go

[MattieSongbird]

Mr. President of the Deejay Committee!!!

[Lightmane321]

If it wasn't for my dad, I'd never know about King Pleasure.

I miss my dad

[gjazz22]

@Lightmane321 >>>>Right on/////////// its because of my DAD that I was raised with JAZZ all my life.

[belfastgypsy1]

One of the best surely. Can never have a better afternoon than kicking back with the best of King Pleasure and a glass of something. Bliss

[kasmedgry]

Thank You we would listen to this song every night on The Lower East Side.

G

[kevinherbert]

pvelectric: add Mel Torme....

[pvelectric]

Three greatest male jazz singers: 1) Frank Sinatra 2) King Pleasure 3) Lou Rawls

[yak6ex]

@pvelectric

Frank as great as he was wasn't jazz. He was big band and classic lounge.

[pvelectric]

I'll need to think about your view awhile.

[pvelectric]

@yak6ex As far as I know, in Sinatra's last big concert in NY City in a huge auditorium, the very last song, the closer of the night, was a duet he sang with Ella F.. The best video of his is with Quincy Jones conducting Lionel Hampton, with some of the jazz world's heaviest players as his orchestra. ""How about the beginning of this, we do it like a small club thing." Immediatly Mr. Q. changes the whole beginning of the song. Johnny Hodges was in 1940s band backing him.

Well?

[MattieSongbird]

@pvelectric I would say there are: 1) Mark Murphy 2) Bobby McFerrin 3) Louis Armstrong

[kevinherbert]

Check out Betty...18 & going for it bigtime....

[imbees2]

This is the real deal, king pleasure....love it. Moody's mood is still my favorite king pleasure song. It was me and my husband's favorite song backi in the 60's. Over Motown, over everybody...We were in the mood for love!!! Hey now!!!!

[atnorth]

Symphony Sid =))))))))

[goodshiite]

ROCK! My grandparents had this on 78 and I was TRANSFIXED by the flip side, "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid", got me totally into old classic jazz and R&B.

I know they say he stole from Eddie, and I give Eddie props, but Man, Pleasure's is the voice for me!

Anyone who doesn't have the King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings with all his Prestige sides from this era, GET IT! His version of "Parker's Mood" RULES.

[cinderellalifestyle]

never a singer quite like him;-)

[kevinherbert]

Go Clarence B....

[newkirkbobby]

Listening to Sid on the (monaural) car radio on the way home from the Champagne Colony (right off 8th Ave), with a few Wild Turkeys under my belt, and getting an intro to Jazz and Latin. Life was good in the early 60s

[MatuArt]

sure gunna drop, Red Top, yeah, memories are still in mind, NYC, Bronx

[hisson1083]

This was suggested when I signed on to youtube and this is only one of my favorite blues ever! Thanks

[Soulnik]

Dig it ♫♫♫♫♫

[CriticalListener]

This is SO wonderful! Thanks so much for letting us hear Mr. Clarence Beeks!

[rock3125]

Yeah.. were is the King?.. Gotta be a video somewhere!\

[Rallesin64]

two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to ask if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids' room, the father said,"Take the kids and get out of the house. We'll call the police, we don't have a clown statue." The "clown statue" is really a killer that escaped from jail. If you don't post this letter on to 10 videos tonight, the clown will be in your bed at 3:00 am with a chainsaw in his hand;sorry

[kevinherbert]

The King & Betty Carter...does it get any better???????????

[kevinherbert]

Betty sound just great!!!!

[Doumbeck]

KING Pleasure was a great "SCAT" singer.. seems to be a lost art. Man, King sounds soo good..

[jedcrowe]

Louis Jordan did a great instrumental version of Red Top.

Is King's version of Red Top based on Gene Ammons recording of the tune?

[blessedtoextream]

I would LOVE to see video of the King doing his thing.

Still Waiting

[lanniedoo]

Thank you for submitting this music - it's swinging cat daddy!

[57Will]

"Red Top" was the hit follow-up to the classic "Moody Mood For Love".