Tampa Red - Don't You Lie To Me

[fngrpkn06]

Great tune! 

[kiwicapper]

nice

[degree7]

Thank god for Youtube.

[seniorensportgruppe]

danke

[seniorensportgruppe]

danke

[RockOnCellBlock]

Ok, so the big question is: WHO WROTE THIS SONG?

[merryfieldmorgan1]

Did Chuck Berry actually take credit for this?

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

Never Heard This version ,Thank You for Posting It..

[75capriceconvertible]

Great TT, great song... you must have around a 3.0 mil stylus to play shellacs? I have a Shure 78rpm and stylus and for some reason I think it's around 2.5 mil... on some very old 78s there is more groove noise

[allaboard70]

The song was recorded by Chuck Berry February 12, 1960. This was a favorite song for the Rolling Stones members, so they recorded the song like other Chuck Berry numbers, for exemple Come On, Carol, Around and Around, Route 66 and Let It Rock. Tampa Red was one of Chuck Berry's favorite performers in the 1940's.

[sayyes2bull]

yeah,laceup! good job with the record and great post. thanks

[guitarandharp]

Great record, shame about the kazoo...

I love Tampa Red's music but I wish someone had said "Don't do that!"

Having read many critiques of his music in books and magazines, I know that I'm not alone in my opinion.

Thanks for posting this and well done regarding the restoration of the record!

[buffalobilly]

@guitarandharp I'm with you on this, if the kazoo was mixed lower it would be alot better but it's still a stain on tampa's body of work

[Mummy323]

too many people do these days. a sad testimony to today' culture

[kkraut]

Orient Road jail, ya heard?

[bmwstan]

One of the greatest blues composers of all time. This guy was a Giant, he was ahead of his time.

[spurnthemuse]

@bmwstan He was definitely ahead of MY time. SPURN THE MUSE!!

[lazur1]

Tampa Red is a bad dude. he wrote a lot of great tunes that others have taken credit for. Chuck Berry stole credit for this tune. For those beginnng a blues collection, you just aout cant go wrong with any "Bluebird" stuff. Well played, cool tunes, clever lyrics. Not a bunch of overlong guitar wankery, just good music.

[Angus1966]

not many healthy people not into wankery , guitar or not.

[lazur1]

Ok, fine, but not -overlong- wankery, which,(yeah, yeah, "guitar or not"), makes no sense at all. Surely you can appreciate the difference. I mean, when you're done, you're done, why are you still having at it? If you don't know that you're done when you're done, you're not finishing very well.

[Hwaigon]

love the melody :-) Ala Bioshock world.

[MikeG62]

I have this Bluebird 78 by Tampa. Remarkable that your copy was glued back together. I can't hear any tics in the record. Actually it sounds great! We have to save these old records from the dumpster if we possibly can. Too hard to find replacement copies!

[LizzyDouglas]

Recorded: May 10 1940 Chicago.(The day the

2nd WorldWar really broke loose). Also recorded by the Rollin' Stones in the mid-sixties, brutally "Jagger/Richard" mentioned as the writers of this property of Hudson Whitaker (Tampa Red)!!

[laceup1967]

Thanks for the info. Enjoy.

[elchuckko]

Are you talking about "Doncha Bother Me" which isn't this song. They never did this one. I know they took songwriting liberties with some of the earlier stuff but so did Plant/Page. Alot of the beat and song structure is sometimes borrowed but that doesn't mean they set out to copy it. There is only so much you can do over a 1-4-5 progression. I don't think the Stones one off "Aftermath" sounds like this at all if this is what you were referring to. Brian Jones on slide! CHEERS!

[Superlap1]

The (uncredited) reprise is on the second track of the "metamorphosis" album of the Stones (1975)

[elchuckko]

I have never heard about that one but I know "Metamorphosis" was stuff that was never supposed to be released but was done so by greedy Allen Klien. That one was put out the same time as a Stones release to sell records via all the old practice tapes Klien leagally(if you want to call it that) owned at the time. Thanks for the info, I didn't know about that one...always learning something new! CHEERS!

[lewars1912]

elchuckko. "There is only so much you can do over a 1-4-5 progression." It's fascinating what has been achieved with it but well said.

[stolenusername4]

@LizzyDouglas tanks for the info

[jessupar]

glued back together? jesus h christ. it's funny how a kazoo is a kids toy now.

it amazes me sometimes what you can find out there on youtube.

[mysaltnseagullfather]

respect for glueing your record back together!

[oumerisha]

i like this song to death...it is one of the songs I like to sing in the shower...I heard it first in the "when the sun goes down" blues collection CD...unfortunately this is the only tampa red song I ever heard. I will be delighted if you could post other tampa red songs...

[laceup1967]

It's a Lenco B55. Swiss-made from the early to mid 1970s. You're right. It has a thick, heavy platter to absorb rumble as well as two floating platforms to isolate the disc and tonearm. Also there's the stylus which is designed for vintage discs: it's larger than the standard stylus used for 45 and 33 1/3rpm records. I found this turntable at a store for used electronics. You can look on ebay. search: LENCO

[foggyrf9]

I have a couple of Lenco decks. They're great and so durable.

[Islwynpaul]

What's the turntable? Looks ideal forplaying ol 78's.

[brennotdan]

reminds me of the time i had to scrape caked dirt off a john hurt record!

[laceup1967]

Sounds like a great story. Want to share?

[brennotdan]

There were two Mississippi John Hurt LP's at a used record shop in a box under the reggae section. They were both in soiled paper dust sleaves and in a plastic bag that contained a very small section of the album art containing only John Hurts head. 25 cents each and took them home, washed them with water then record cleaner and now they play fine. It was a lot of work for an album that i allready have on cd but John sounds so warm on vinyl.

[capnquirky]

The scratches are comforting.

[laceup1967]

Nothing like a good scratch.

[grandmacaesar]

thanks much for your conservation efforts.

have a very cool day!

[laceup1967]

I think it's important to rescue these discs and share them with others. Most of these musicians are forgotten and if their contributions are available on cd, they won't be for much longer. It's also important to demonstrate to people how the sound was originally recorded: most often when companies transfer the sides to cd they are tweaked and 'cleaned up' by an engineer and that loses it's raw, natural nature. Glad you appreciate it. Will have more later. Cheers.

[FecesEater]

Always thought this was an Albert King song. Gess-aye-wuz-rong!

[sneskid]

haha that's a nice thing about shellac, it may be noisey and you have to deal with the fact that a lot of 78s are not actually 78, and they also use different EQing (no RIAA) as well....but least you can glue them back together if you're CAREFUL :P Just wondering, why don't you record directly instead of with a microphone?

[msf88]

You sure couldn't do that to one of those CD thingies! Useless!

[laceup1967]

I'd also like to see a CD that will play after 67 years, broken or not.