"Le Blues De Memphis" - Behind the scenes at STAX & FAME Recording Studios (1969)

[tapper1477]

'This is fantastic footage. Thank You!

[MrSnail65]

Great to see footage of Brook cutting a track .

[mnaicck]

The best music I've ever heard, am likely to hear.

[LucHaasnoot]

This is wonderful. Does anyone know what Brook Benton is singing here?

[sfbassist]

This video also includes the Muscle Shoals section with Jimmy Johnson, David Hood, and Roger Hawkins 

[tolpuddleman]

Brilliant !

[mrsportswood]

oh to have been there



[dtorrencephoto]

Thank you for sharing! Amazing!

[Laceysjam]

Love this upload thank you...



[mrreimeinstein]

great upload thank you ....

[TrippingTheTube]

Awesome. 

[jungleroomdotcom]

amazing...



[mikecorso1]

SO good enough to be featured on Cool Site of the Day (1/27/12). Can anyone generate a transcript for me?

[iketurnerhitshard]

The best thing I've stumbled upon in a VERY long time! Thank you again and again for posting this.



[ShaiDrori]

Wish I was there

[wdw0218]

Ben Cauley is now playing with the Bo-Keys.

[surfocaster]

Fantastic! Good grief, priceless footage of the MG's in the studio........WOW! What a fantastic clip! Thanks for sharing this!

[wildbilltexas]

This is some amazing footage. Thanks for sharing it. So much great music and musicians came out of that area. The Brook Benton footage has a lot of legendary musicians that later became known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

[mitcharney1]

I wish someone would post this Brook Benton song!

[d5bailey55]

WOW...

[d5bailey55]

tape, coffee, cigarettes and talent,and more tape...

[quieterrps]

Thanks Spike! That is unbelievable footage confirming what my h ear t already knew ~ that Stax was one of greatest communities of atmosphere out there. When it all couldn't possibly get better (even after the round table staff meeting!) Brook Benton is captured at the end answering the question so well ~ What Is Soul?

[tomthefunky]

Ben Cauley (the black trumpet player) was the only survivor in the crash that killed Otis Redding and Ben's band, the original Bar-Kay's. It was Ben's crazy vibrato trumpet lick that made famous The Bar-Kay's smash hit "Soul Finger". The white trumpet player is Wayne Jackson. He's the leader of the horn section. Him and Andrew Love (tenor sax) were the core Stax, FAME, American, and HI horn team. Wayne and Andrew are literally the most successful post-war horn section in American history.

[mnaicck]

@tomthefunky

you truly are the man!

[mnaicck]

Thank you!

[zorenofzennor]

anyone know what the brook benton song is please and was it released its awesome

[zebop]

@zorenofzennor It's called "She Knows What to Do For Me." It was released in 1969 and it's on an album called "Do Your Own Thing."

[zorenofzennor]

@zebop hi zebop thank you so much ...I will track this down now I know what to look for

loved rainy night in georgia and bought it when it first came out and somehow missed this and when I looked for other recordings they where always really "nice" and smooth" but not soulful like this .. thanks again....you made my day cheers

[zorenofzennor]

@zebop hello again and would you know the track that Isaac Hayes and Ben Cauley are rehearsing the horns for please thanx

[zebop]

@zorenofzennor It's the Emotions "So I Can Love You."

[zorenofzennor]

@zebop hi zebop many thanks for the Emotions Info ....your a star ...much appreciated ZOfz

[Cheech519]

Awesome

[vikingbones]

Magnifique!

[friskylamar]

Horns, shot inside Isaac's office at Stax in Memphis, are Ben Cauley and Wayne Jackson - trumpet, Ed Logan and Andrew Love - tenor sax, and Isaac Hayes on baritone sax.

[83taradeau]

I think it's David Hood on bass, not Junior Lowe.

[tomthefunky]

@83taradeau You're right. It's David Hood.

[tomthefunky]

Thank you so much spikepriggen for this. The guys playing with Brook at FAME studios were Barry Beckett/piano, Eddie Hinton/ guitar, and Junior Lowe/ bass.

The horn section you see rehearsing at Stax with Isaac Hayes were called The Mar-keys, later to be known as The Memphis Horns. They were the de facto horn section for both Stax AND Fame (Muscle Shoals) at this time. But they are not the Muscle Shoals horn section. They came later in the mid seventies. Confusing enough?

[DJparadiddle]

AMAZING! thank you