78rpm pressing: Hand Clappin' - Red Prysock, 1955 - Mercury 70698

[DrSaxMusic]

Your 78 is in mint condition! Wow. What a great clean sound. Thanks for sharing this old rocker.

I remember seeing Red at Toronto's Ascot Hall

[G8GT364CI]

Many Many DJ's have used this tune as the outro to their show over the years, great tune!

[PatRampulla]

WOW IF THIS ISN'T THE BESTTTTTTTTTTTTTT....LOVE IT

[jonbecker03]

i guess red prysock was the exception among "major" honking tenor saxophone players of the fifties. he appears to have never spent even a DAY playing in lionel hampton's orchestra.

[Raymond18806]

If this classic can't get you to move, nothing will! I really didn't believe it was possible I would ever hear this tune again. Thanks!

[MrJohnpiano]

Thanks for posting - nice clean copy, too! I was first aware of this song from the Silvertones album - the very first album on Blind Pig Records (BP 001 - or somesuch). They're lineup was 2 guitars, string bass, drums. Fast forward to 1980 and the Steve Nardella Band (basically the Silvertones with a piano) - and this recording I made at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor (see the video response). Many years later I found a CD containing the original. Wow! Love this stuff.

[secretadmirer8769]

you should youtube this famous 1990s house music tune that sampled "hand clappin". Just search Cajmere - "Horny"

[johnonorgan]

Must have played this 200 times when i was with the Al "BIG HORN" Christie band

in queens and LI sometimes along with Joey Cattalanotto and the Four Cresents

sometimes 3 times a night and Joey would walk the bar playing the whole time

[barbequebobmaglinte]

His signature and essential jump blues sax listening!!!

[Rupert40754]

what a brilliant way to hear your first Red Prysock, hes the best,and very underated

[SURFLANT]

this was B. Mitchell Reed's theme song on WMCA 570 AM in New York in the mid '60's, I always wished he play the whole song. Thanks for sharing it.

[sleepytimegalz]

Yes, cewagner, he surely did ....Listened to it many nights as teen...Loved Alan Freed...closed with "good night my love" by Jesse Belvin Sr.

[cewagner]

I seem to recall that Alan Freed opened his show with this. Yes? No?

[BcuzJazz]

MADNESS!

If you've got a jukebox, and you've only got ONE record in it.... :-)

[maynardcat]

Look Ma no spindle.!! You have been really busy, lot of great sounding new uploads. I've Been going down the line listening to them.

[SwingMan1937]

Yeah - one of the great features of this table (Garrard AT-60) is it's interchangeable spindles. This way, when I go to play 78's that have been pressed horribly off-center (like this one), I can just pull the spindle out and rely on the grip of the original mat to hold the record after I've centered it up. ;)

There's a couple others I've done this with in the videos here, like Dizzy's "Interlude" and Billy Eckstine's "Blowing The Blues Away" on my channel.

[janwiedemeijer]

@SwingMan1937

Great stuff man, it makes me flip!!

Good quality for such an old 78 rpm by the way