Beautiful photo, but incorrect credit. That`s King Curtis. Check out the live version recorded at the Filmore West with Billy Preston on organ and the incredible Kingpins. It doesn`t get any better than this album! Curtis was the band leader (with tis same lineup) for Aretha up until his untimely death.
@jaysewall1 indeed, the live version is unbeatable -- 7 minutes of bliss, i always pick this as an opener for a dj set and know that things can't go wrong from there.
PS: the very beginning reminds me of the slow motion bit from the scene in Inglourious Basterds, when Donny and the other basterd use their fist-mounted guns on the two nazi guards.
Great, gutsy music - the cover is also lovely! Incidentally, King Curtis did a great track with Eric Clapton. I don't remember the title but, as far as I know, it only saw the light of day on the 'History of Eric Clapton' album.
F**k me, my ears are bleeding with joy. My brain wants to swim forever in its funky beats. I could not, and would not, trust anyone who can honestly say they don't appreciate this quality tune.
King Curtis was better than great. Some idiot stabbed him to death. Could he play? You bet he could. He could make his sax scream, take it to a whole different level. I think he was better than Junior Walker, and that's a super tall order.
@TheLawvan: Better than Junior Walker? I wouldn't say that, but then, I had the privilege of hearing Junior live but not King Curtis. Their styles weren't precisely alike, either, so comparing is tough. I prefer to say that they are on a level of greatness few sax men attain, especially in popular music (as opposed to hardcore jazz).
@GeorgiaBoy1961 No argument from me. I was born in 1950. I bought and still have LPs of King Curtis and Junior Walker, with all of their very best renditions. They were terrific sax players, who could really wail and take that instrument to a whole new level. I'm glad you enjoy these super -superlative- sax players as much as I do. At 61, I enjoy them just like I did when I was 16. Crank it up!
@TheLawvan: yeah, ain't that the truth! I blew out a speaker in my old 73' Olds Cutlass years ago, because I played "Memphis Soul Stew" so loud one time. Junior and King were the main men for me, in R&B tenor saxophone. When I hear them, I can tell where Clarence Clemons came from. I loved Curtis' session work with acts like the Coasters, back in the 1950s, too. As far as other R&B/pop music tenormen, there's a few others at their level that come to mind - Plas Johnson is one - but not many.
@GeorgiaBoy1961: Did you know Charlie Parker hated King Curtis? Bird knew that honking "Yakety Sax" style of playing was coming into fashion and he despised it. People don't realize how many jazz players adopted Curtis's style to get work when rock and roll became popular. The hardcore Be-Bop guys considered them all sell-outs.
@tomthefunky: FunkyTom, I am not surprised that the hard-core boppers hated guys like King Curtis and Jr. Walker. They were not only very good musicians, but great entertainers who cared that their audiences have a good time. The be-boppers attitude was "F_ the audience; we're playing what we want - take it or leave it..." and of course being a rebel may feel great, but it doesn't pay the bills. Some of the boppers looked down on "mere" R&B players, too, as being unsophisticated sellouts.
@tomthefunky" (Continued) 'Course, many of those same cats changed their tune when rock and roll and R&b hit it big commerially, and they needed work... as you note. All of a sudden, a gig in an R&B or jazz-rock band wasn't so bad after all. Tenorman Joe Henderson once played in Blood, Sweat, and Tears to lay the bills, for a while in the early 1970s. Someone like him wouldn't have been caught dead in that band ten years before. Times change, I guess.
@GeorgiaBoy1961: I'm a New Yorker. I'm in the catering business. I work with a crew who meet on the corner of 86th Street to be picked up by a van and taken to various jobs in the New York area. I've sat on the steps of Curtis's apartment waiting for the van a hundred times. Each time I sit silently in my tuxedo on those steps (I'm a waiter/bartender) and no one knows what took place there. No one but me.
@tomthefunky: Well, thanks for that story...as sad as it is. It's gotta be kinda creepy, though, knowing what happened there - that a man lost his life on that very spot. Good to remember, though, because without our history - we humans start to lose who we are and where we're going. Duane Allman played at King's funeral, and was a short time later, killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon. A year after him, bassist Berry Oakley of the Allmans died in the same way.
You're wrong, I'm sorry... not only can you see a live version here- youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA with introductions... I actually personally knew/played with Purdie and he was quite proud of his work w/Curtis and that tune in particular. If you have some conspiracy theory, or proof it was someone else, please please post your link here... Yeah, I didn't think so.
Yes, I am aware of the live version but this is not Purdie. Purdie would have never held such a conventional groove. He was the same live as he was on record and the live performance shares nothing with this recorded version.
By the way, it's no great feat to know Purdie. There are countless pasty white nerd wannabe funk drummers who meet, talk and sometimes even play with the legend. The man gets around.
@TheIntruders you know, some of my favorite funky musicians are pasty and white... Bob Babbit, Stuart Zender, Mike Clark, Pino Palladino, Flea, Will Lee, John Robinson, Dave Garibaldi, Rocco Prestia. No wanabees. You would be surprised how little appearances match up with what you hear. Some of the best are white and some of the worst are black and the other way around is also true.
@bassramos: Agree with you totally... black or white, you gotta have that southern funkiness in your playing to get over with these cats. The fiction that whites can't play black music is bunk.... all of the most famous session bands in the southern soul music scene were multiracial - Muscle Shoals, Stax, American, GoldWax, Hi, you name it. James Brown's favorite bassist on the road for years - was a white guy. There's only two types of music, good and bad. All the rest is incidental...
@bassramos Great music knows NO color, nor race, nor creed, nor bias. That's why we love Great music so much. Relevant words in turbulent times. Thanks, brother.
@Dactuck I dont understand your sarcasm... Bob Babbit did play with Stevie (Signed Sealed Delivered. Stevie also wrote for Ramsey Lewis (Love notes and Spring High) both of which I play with Mr. Lewis and seperately I have opened for Stevie with Liquid Soul. Im also in a music video by Ramsey Lewis where we play Livin for The City by Stevie. I mean Im already all Stevied up here. Have you opened for Stevie, or do you play and record for an artist with whom Stevie has exclusively written for?
@bassramos Sorry, just havin' some Stew fun. Mutual respect for the music serves at least 100000, and maybe more. Served up with grits, smiles, and a touch of sarcasm, you'll sleep right tonight!
@TheIntruders: This is the legendary American Studios Band in Memphis. Gene Chrisman/ drums, Reggie Young/ guitar, Tommy Cogbill/bass. They played on such hits as Son Of A Preacher Man, Suspicious Minds, Sweet Caroline, You Were Always On My Mind, The Letter, and about a hundred other smash hits. What that band accomplished was extraordinary.
@tomthefunky: Reggie Young... if that guy had quit playing session guitar after 1970, he'd be a legend today, but he left Memphis and moved to Nashville in the mid-1970s and played on - oh - about a hundred million more in record sales there. One of the most recorded guitarists in history. What taste and creativity... never heard him play a bum note. Same goes for his bandmates... cream of the crop. Them, Stax and Muscle Shoals 'bout covers it all for southern music.
If I was wrong about which studio version Purdie played on, sue me ... both he and very good friend/former bandmate of mine, Jerry Jemmott must have confused me when they told me about the Old Days.
Oh BTW you might want to leave that jackass attitude behind about "pasty white nerd wannabes"... I was in a *band* with him that ran over many years on the NYC circuit, with both him *and* Jerry Jemmott. (cont'd)
If I was wrong about which studio version Purdie played on, sue me ... both he and very good friend/former bandmate of mine, Jerry Jemmott must have confused me when they told me about the Old Days.
Oh BTW you might want to leave that jackass attitude behind about "pasty white nerd wannabes"... I was in a *band* with him that ran over many years on the NYC circuit, with both him *and* Jerry Jemmott. (cont)
@TheIntruders (contd) I'm out of touch with Purdie, but Jerry's a friend, we used to talk on the phone almost DAILY. I HIGHLY DOUBT that you have much going on in your life, seeing as you spend your time lurking in f-cking YouTube *message* boards commenting on dumb esoterica while others PLAY. I am a *player* (guitarist), *you* are the pasty-white wannabe, amateur.
@TheIntruders Since you say it's no big thing to play with Purdie (I'm presuming you have not), how about being in a long-running band that included *both* Purdie *and* Jerry Jemmott? I'm doubting that at age 21, YOU were asked to join a band with the two legends as the rhythm section, like I was. I was young and didn't know who they WERE! Jealous? I am on the left: s1132.photobucket . c o m/albums/m566/thunderfuxxx/The_Bitter_End_NYC/?action=view¤t=DrDanBitterEnd89.jpg
@TheIntruders If that link didn't work for you, try this (take out extra spaces in link): htt p : // s1132.photobucket. c o m/albums/m566/thunderfuxxx/The_Bitter_End_NYC/?action=view¤t=DrDanBitterEnd89.jpg
BTW you should stop calling people "pasty and white"... chances aren't bad that it makes a racist out of you. Multi-racial harmony is a beautiful thing, get used to it.
@TheIntruders Going to try the link one more time (since YouTube messes up the link addresses) -- remove any extra spaces in this link:
tinyurl . c o m/3obarks
Now... tell us what *you* do in life that's so special you feel like being in a band with legends Jemmott and Purdie is "no big thing". It must be something really incredible! I await your exciting reply. Hopefully it's not limited to "leafing through scratched LPs in an old milk crate, and try to belittle real musicians on YouTube"...
@ThunderFuXXX: I have proof. Buy a book called Memphis Boys, The Story Of American Studios by Roben Jones. It came out last year. Turn to page 87. It tells the whole story of the song.
Shit, Purdie claimed he played on 19 Beatles songs for crying out loud!! The whole goddamn music industry knows he's a crackpot. The drummer here is Gene Chrisman. End of discussion.
@tomthefunky I believe you if you have proof it wasn't Bernard on the studio version! I also am *quite* aware of the tendency to tell tall tales :P so I will consider myself corrected on that one!
I can imagine Bill Cosby LOVING this... let's see leaning back with a this stupid look on his face like he is in the midst of eating a rotten olive while doing some crazy bobble-head move. Yes that would do nicely.
@zmej1008 Jerry Jemmott INVENTED THE REAL FUNKY BASS: The early James Brown bassist only was imitate the James Jamerson style (Jammerson was Motown Session Bassist). Eventually Larry Graham invented the "Slap bass".
@funkberto: I played electric bass for years before switching to guitar, and let me tell you, this bassline caused me alot of hand cramps trying to play it.... it ain't easy, especially for a cat whose hands aren't giant... but talk about funky and in the pocket! JJ was the real deal, no question. Love that Cornell Dupree guitar and King saying "boiling memphis guitar... this gonna taste alright!"
The live version of this at the Fillmore is SICK. it doesn't seem to be on YouTube, but you can find it on iTunes for a buck....trust me, Bernard Dupree on drums, and it's off the charts good. it's worth the dollar.
@WillBraden the drummer is Bernard PURDIE.....not Dupree.....and if you like his playing, check out Steely Dan's orginal album version of "Babylon Sister"......the drum part is known as the "Purdie Shuffle"..........so smooth......
@tomthefunky: I always thought that King did this session with his road band... didnt know it was the cats at American. So that's Reggie Young on guitar, and not Cornell Dupree? Where did you discover this info? I'd love to know more about the gang at American, some of my all-time favs as musicians... thanks for the information.
@GeorgiaBoy1961: An amazing book came out last year called "Memphis Boys, The Story Of American Studios" by Roben Jones. I must warn you, it's not cheap. I think it set me back 50 clams but it's worth it. Maybe Amazon has a cheaper price. Everything they did is exhaustively researched. I was chatting with David Hood ( bassist with the Muscle Shoals band) last month. He was also amazed by the job she did.
This tune is covered in the book. King Curtis recorded quite a few albums at American.
The best, biggest, baddest ass saxaphone player in his time in the whole damn USA.. RIP King Curtis. You were the best. Many imitators but no duplicators.
This is the best of the classic "Memphis Soul Sound" Instrumentals-- turn the volume up when you listen to this beat. It will really get you blood boiling, NOW BEAT WELL!
now while mr babbit did play with stevie on sign sealed, delivered as well as others it was james jamerson on the original bassline to that song.
mrbrownbear3 16 hours ago
This is great music. Thanks for posting. Thanks for cookin!
Dactuck 1 week ago
I can't get over the album cover...
jmortondrums 2 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for King Curtis
this song ends too early! keep on cooking!
acdseay 2 weeks ago
yea man this was the shi- ,i,m at a loss for words,an out of breath,,but well worth it.i,m going back in UTUBE an find somemore of this groove man.
cedanman 2 weeks ago
Fuck Gucci, THIS is the recipe!
Nycter1 2 weeks ago
King Curtis is da man. Got this on an old album, and it is the best "recipe" song ever!
stir it up, y'all.
Clambaker01 3 weeks ago
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KBMCINTERNETRADIO 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah!!!!!!! B boy tyme!!!!
grimcruzh 3 weeks ago
Gerard Ekdon brought me here
leipezwam 1 month ago
FONKKKKYYYYYYYY
junkduma 1 month ago
uprock!
kwestlol 1 month ago
Now that's a badass groove! rrrrrrrrr
lordoid 1 month ago
Nice photo of of Black woman in tiger bikini. Music does her justice. Nothing but SOUL!!
bluesgird 1 month ago
Best song of all time
chewybacca1011 1 month ago
I'm starvin' for some stew. Yes!
Dactuck 1 month ago
Place on the burner, bring to a boil, now Beat Well!!
Mikesdailyjukebox 2 months ago
Gimme some of this here stew!!!..
DeannDmere 2 months ago 2
Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, You gonna learn something today
DrMillionaire1 2 months ago in playlist Blues
dj funktuall brought me here
WolfpackMusicGroup 2 months ago
Beautiful photo, but incorrect credit. That`s King Curtis. Check out the live version recorded at the Filmore West with Billy Preston on organ and the incredible Kingpins. It doesn`t get any better than this album! Curtis was the band leader (with tis same lineup) for Aretha up until his untimely death.
jaysewall1 2 months ago
@jaysewall1 indeed, the live version is unbeatable -- 7 minutes of bliss, i always pick this as an opener for a dj set and know that things can't go wrong from there.
mardenhill 2 months ago
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hOLD THAT TiGeR...!
goodymfla 2 months ago
Man I feel hungry now!!!!
peck11 2 months ago
King Tone! A great follow-up to this one -- a tune by Tower of Power, or Jimmy McGriff.
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
Now that's some good cookin'
pharmAZy 2 months ago 3
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My hips just start to move all on their own when the bass line kicks in- how can you not groove to this?
skramamme 3 months ago
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skramamme 3 months ago
lovin it
selinatroon 3 months ago
I really love this cut soo much!
RVCA91 3 months ago
Magnificent!
PS: the very beginning reminds me of the slow motion bit from the scene in Inglourious Basterds, when Donny and the other basterd use their fist-mounted guns on the two nazi guards.
Matuxmatux 4 months ago
Now thats what I call good music !!!
KrautKrazy 4 months ago 14
the Geto Boys murked this record!!!!!
AliDeville78 4 months ago 6
@AliDeville78 "We needed money, so I robbed a liquor store..."
oskamadison 1 month ago
@oskamadison We needed soul, so I robbed King Curtis. I got my fill! How'd it work out for you?
Dactuck 1 month ago
@Dactuck Worked out just fine!
oskamadison 1 month ago
The Geto Boys killed this track lol
altaariq 4 months ago
Great, gutsy music - the cover is also lovely! Incidentally, King Curtis did a great track with Eric Clapton. I don't remember the title but, as far as I know, it only saw the light of day on the 'History of Eric Clapton' album.
promerops 4 months ago
THIS IS GREAT.
beetle5252 4 months ago
Nobody does this Like King Curtis. He left us too soon.
scumber56 5 months ago 2
who is the hot mama on the cover? :)
yoitscayman 5 months ago
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yoitscayman 5 months ago
this track tells you if you are alive if you are groovin to it you are!
jacksons1950 5 months ago
Get aload of that getup this gal is wearing... man do I miss those days!
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
Long live the King!!!
rennyshelton 6 months ago
go auntie joan
jaddajn1 7 months ago
Damned sexy album-cover indeed "Kiss me tiger" .-)
fortheloveoftunes 7 months ago
lol it's sad, but the first version I ever heard of this... was the Simpsons version. xD
JonBlizzle2 7 months ago
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That shit could be as fat as that.
mcmedley789 7 months ago
I could use a pound o' fat-back drums right about now.
MojoPimpDaddyJohnson 7 months ago
F**k me, my ears are bleeding with joy. My brain wants to swim forever in its funky beats. I could not, and would not, trust anyone who can honestly say they don't appreciate this quality tune.
meljames24 7 months ago
King Curtis was better than great. Some idiot stabbed him to death. Could he play? You bet he could. He could make his sax scream, take it to a whole different level. I think he was better than Junior Walker, and that's a super tall order.
TheLawvan 7 months ago
@TheLawvan: Better than Junior Walker? I wouldn't say that, but then, I had the privilege of hearing Junior live but not King Curtis. Their styles weren't precisely alike, either, so comparing is tough. I prefer to say that they are on a level of greatness few sax men attain, especially in popular music (as opposed to hardcore jazz).
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961 No argument from me. I was born in 1950. I bought and still have LPs of King Curtis and Junior Walker, with all of their very best renditions. They were terrific sax players, who could really wail and take that instrument to a whole new level. I'm glad you enjoy these super -superlative- sax players as much as I do. At 61, I enjoy them just like I did when I was 16. Crank it up!
TheLawvan 6 months ago
@TheLawvan: yeah, ain't that the truth! I blew out a speaker in my old 73' Olds Cutlass years ago, because I played "Memphis Soul Stew" so loud one time. Junior and King were the main men for me, in R&B tenor saxophone. When I hear them, I can tell where Clarence Clemons came from. I loved Curtis' session work with acts like the Coasters, back in the 1950s, too. As far as other R&B/pop music tenormen, there's a few others at their level that come to mind - Plas Johnson is one - but not many.
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961: Did you know Charlie Parker hated King Curtis? Bird knew that honking "Yakety Sax" style of playing was coming into fashion and he despised it. People don't realize how many jazz players adopted Curtis's style to get work when rock and roll became popular. The hardcore Be-Bop guys considered them all sell-outs.
tomthefunky 5 months ago
@tomthefunky: FunkyTom, I am not surprised that the hard-core boppers hated guys like King Curtis and Jr. Walker. They were not only very good musicians, but great entertainers who cared that their audiences have a good time. The be-boppers attitude was "F_ the audience; we're playing what we want - take it or leave it..." and of course being a rebel may feel great, but it doesn't pay the bills. Some of the boppers looked down on "mere" R&B players, too, as being unsophisticated sellouts.
GeorgiaBoy1961 5 months ago
@tomthefunky" (Continued) 'Course, many of those same cats changed their tune when rock and roll and R&b hit it big commerially, and they needed work... as you note. All of a sudden, a gig in an R&B or jazz-rock band wasn't so bad after all. Tenorman Joe Henderson once played in Blood, Sweat, and Tears to lay the bills, for a while in the early 1970s. Someone like him wouldn't have been caught dead in that band ten years before. Times change, I guess.
GeorgiaBoy1961 5 months ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961: I'm a New Yorker. I'm in the catering business. I work with a crew who meet on the corner of 86th Street to be picked up by a van and taken to various jobs in the New York area. I've sat on the steps of Curtis's apartment waiting for the van a hundred times. Each time I sit silently in my tuxedo on those steps (I'm a waiter/bartender) and no one knows what took place there. No one but me.
tomthefunky 5 months ago
@tomthefunky: Well, thanks for that story...as sad as it is. It's gotta be kinda creepy, though, knowing what happened there - that a man lost his life on that very spot. Good to remember, though, because without our history - we humans start to lose who we are and where we're going. Duane Allman played at King's funeral, and was a short time later, killed in a motorcycle crash in Macon. A year after him, bassist Berry Oakley of the Allmans died in the same way.
GeorgiaBoy1961 5 months ago
I only clicked for the album cover
KataVideo 8 months ago
rockin and a rollin! sounds fresh now as it did then yo'll1
maxwello800 8 months ago
the perfect recipe!
poisecaestamos 8 months ago
wow when it started off i had a feeling it was gonna be like that geto boys song. do it like a G.O.
MelvinWren 9 months ago
Very good song !! Funk yeah !! Congratulations !!
dubettoni 9 months ago
Sounds like Kurtis King an'nem have a real good recipe. Likes this:)
jarbon5 9 months ago
how can you have stew without dumplings ???? but i will make an exception with this ;;;;;;;; awesome .
soulman1949ful 9 months ago
Awesome stuff.....
kudlow39 10 months ago
RIP Cornell Dupree
pat976 10 months ago
That is NOT Bernard "Pretty" Purdie on the drums.
TheIntruders 10 months ago
@TheIntruders
You're wrong, I'm sorry... not only can you see a live version here- youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA with introductions... I actually personally knew/played with Purdie and he was quite proud of his work w/Curtis and that tune in particular. If you have some conspiracy theory, or proof it was someone else, please please post your link here... Yeah, I didn't think so.
ThunderFuXXX 8 months ago
@ThunderFuXXX
Yes, I am aware of the live version but this is not Purdie. Purdie would have never held such a conventional groove. He was the same live as he was on record and the live performance shares nothing with this recorded version.
By the way, it's no great feat to know Purdie. There are countless pasty white nerd wannabe funk drummers who meet, talk and sometimes even play with the legend. The man gets around.
TheIntruders 7 months ago
@TheIntruders you know, some of my favorite funky musicians are pasty and white... Bob Babbit, Stuart Zender, Mike Clark, Pino Palladino, Flea, Will Lee, John Robinson, Dave Garibaldi, Rocco Prestia. No wanabees. You would be surprised how little appearances match up with what you hear. Some of the best are white and some of the worst are black and the other way around is also true.
bassramos 6 months ago
@bassramos: Agree with you totally... black or white, you gotta have that southern funkiness in your playing to get over with these cats. The fiction that whites can't play black music is bunk.... all of the most famous session bands in the southern soul music scene were multiracial - Muscle Shoals, Stax, American, GoldWax, Hi, you name it. James Brown's favorite bassist on the road for years - was a white guy. There's only two types of music, good and bad. All the rest is incidental...
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@bassramos Great music knows NO color, nor race, nor creed, nor bias. That's why we love Great music so much. Relevant words in turbulent times. Thanks, brother.
Dactuck 1 month ago 3
@bassramos I remember brother. I remember your work with Stevie, Bob Babbit, I could never forget. Thank you so much. Never forgotten.
Dactuck 1 week ago
@Dactuck Well, I shared the bill with Stevie in Austria, and I play bass for Ramsey Lewis, so...
bassramos 1 week ago
@Dactuck Oops I thought you were being sarcastic, sorry:-)
bassramos 1 week ago
@bassramos I was. Enjoy the stew!
Dactuck 1 week ago
@Dactuck I dont understand your sarcasm... Bob Babbit did play with Stevie (Signed Sealed Delivered. Stevie also wrote for Ramsey Lewis (Love notes and Spring High) both of which I play with Mr. Lewis and seperately I have opened for Stevie with Liquid Soul. Im also in a music video by Ramsey Lewis where we play Livin for The City by Stevie. I mean Im already all Stevied up here. Have you opened for Stevie, or do you play and record for an artist with whom Stevie has exclusively written for?
bassramos 5 days ago
@bassramos Sorry, just havin' some Stew fun. Mutual respect for the music serves at least 100000, and maybe more. Served up with grits, smiles, and a touch of sarcasm, you'll sleep right tonight!
Dactuck 2 days ago
@TheIntruders: This is the legendary American Studios Band in Memphis. Gene Chrisman/ drums, Reggie Young/ guitar, Tommy Cogbill/bass. They played on such hits as Son Of A Preacher Man, Suspicious Minds, Sweet Caroline, You Were Always On My Mind, The Letter, and about a hundred other smash hits. What that band accomplished was extraordinary.
tomthefunky 6 months ago
@tomthefunky: Reggie Young... if that guy had quit playing session guitar after 1970, he'd be a legend today, but he left Memphis and moved to Nashville in the mid-1970s and played on - oh - about a hundred million more in record sales there. One of the most recorded guitarists in history. What taste and creativity... never heard him play a bum note. Same goes for his bandmates... cream of the crop. Them, Stax and Muscle Shoals 'bout covers it all for southern music.
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@TheIntruders
If I was wrong about which studio version Purdie played on, sue me ... both he and very good friend/former bandmate of mine, Jerry Jemmott must have confused me when they told me about the Old Days.
Oh BTW you might want to leave that jackass attitude behind about "pasty white nerd wannabes"... I was in a *band* with him that ran over many years on the NYC circuit, with both him *and* Jerry Jemmott. (cont'd)
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@TheIntruders
If I was wrong about which studio version Purdie played on, sue me ... both he and very good friend/former bandmate of mine, Jerry Jemmott must have confused me when they told me about the Old Days.
Oh BTW you might want to leave that jackass attitude behind about "pasty white nerd wannabes"... I was in a *band* with him that ran over many years on the NYC circuit, with both him *and* Jerry Jemmott. (cont)
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@TheIntruders (contd) I'm out of touch with Purdie, but Jerry's a friend, we used to talk on the phone almost DAILY. I HIGHLY DOUBT that you have much going on in your life, seeing as you spend your time lurking in f-cking YouTube *message* boards commenting on dumb esoterica while others PLAY. I am a *player* (guitarist), *you* are the pasty-white wannabe, amateur.
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@TheIntruders Since you say it's no big thing to play with Purdie (I'm presuming you have not), how about being in a long-running band that included *both* Purdie *and* Jerry Jemmott? I'm doubting that at age 21, YOU were asked to join a band with the two legends as the rhythm section, like I was. I was young and didn't know who they WERE! Jealous? I am on the left: s1132.photobucket . c o m/albums/m566/thunderfuxxx/The_Bitter_End_NYC/?action=view¤t=DrDanBitterEnd89.jpg
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@TheIntruders If that link didn't work for you, try this (take out extra spaces in link): htt p : // s1132.photobucket. c o m/albums/m566/thunderfuxxx/The_Bitter_End_NYC/?action=view¤t=DrDanBitterEnd89.jpg
BTW you should stop calling people "pasty and white"... chances aren't bad that it makes a racist out of you. Multi-racial harmony is a beautiful thing, get used to it.
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@TheIntruders Going to try the link one more time (since YouTube messes up the link addresses) -- remove any extra spaces in this link:
tinyurl . c o m/3obarks
Now... tell us what *you* do in life that's so special you feel like being in a band with legends Jemmott and Purdie is "no big thing". It must be something really incredible! I await your exciting reply. Hopefully it's not limited to "leafing through scratched LPs in an old milk crate, and try to belittle real musicians on YouTube"...
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
@ThunderFuXXX: I have proof. Buy a book called Memphis Boys, The Story Of American Studios by Roben Jones. It came out last year. Turn to page 87. It tells the whole story of the song.
Shit, Purdie claimed he played on 19 Beatles songs for crying out loud!! The whole goddamn music industry knows he's a crackpot. The drummer here is Gene Chrisman. End of discussion.
tomthefunky 6 months ago
@tomthefunky I believe you if you have proof it wasn't Bernard on the studio version! I also am *quite* aware of the tendency to tell tall tales :P so I will consider myself corrected on that one!
ThunderFuXXX 5 months ago
So did this inspire desmond decker's reggae recipe, or did desmond decker's reggae recipe inspire this?
redmunkee 10 months ago
awesome!!!!!
globalvibes24 10 months ago
キングカーティスの“ﾒﾝﾌｨｽ･ソウル･シチュー”～THIS IS FUNK ! #jazzm
blackandtanful 10 months ago
Wow! a recipe for head nodding Stanky Funk. Get up and move!!!
net43works 10 months ago
... this guy knows everyting
lakat100 11 months ago
LooooooooooooVE this song
Too bad it's not complete .. :(
Swingin' here
85Silvana85 11 months ago
NOW BEAT....WELL
Ragnarocker5 11 months ago
Now I need about a pound of fatback drums.......NICE
bazmitch 11 months ago
Check him out "Live at the Filmore" - SOLID!!
lekkerebek 1 year ago
@lekkerebek I have it and it is indeed awesome.
bazmitch 11 months ago
Tuuuuuuuunnee!!
chenzie48 1 year ago
Rip Curtis 'King Curtis' Ousley, you were the best of your time....
TheAlmightyBassist 1 year ago
never heard it b4...but this 72 baby loves it. thanks 4 keepin' this music alive!
19631retro1 1 year ago
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alspke 1 year ago
YES!!!!
chenzie48 1 year ago
2 people are tofu eaters.
TroyConvers5000 1 year ago
This is only the SECOND TIME I've ever heard this song, and that was back in 1991!
I LOVE IT!!!
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
Tommy Cogbill on bass!!!
shinjibass 1 year ago
Amazing. Also, you uploaded the best quality of this song on youtube! Did you uploaded in FLAC format or what, quality is great :)
Nik123dj 1 year ago
The baddest dude to ever blow a saxophone, the King of the Soul saxophone, the great King Curtis.
Jevezy 1 year ago
THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!
Ohsosweett 1 year ago
GRAET!!!
basialis 1 year ago
jerry jemmott.....kickass bass player, i love that man haha
chapanese96 1 year ago
@chapanese96- I believe it's Tommy Cogbill on bass.
dtilman25 1 year ago
gREAT song! & what a SEXY little "tigress" on the album cover! ;P
XMChipXM 1 year ago
Toppertje.
minkuukel 1 year ago
G R O O V E !
gronguito 1 year ago
40-plus years later and still Funk to the MAX! Rock On, King Curtis!
cloddog 1 year ago
groooooooove!!!
dreadblues88 1 year ago
YES!!!!!!! Thank YOU!!!!
rubyrose456 1 year ago
Geto Boys Trigga Happy Nigga!
tardit 1 year ago 2
thats it thats it right therrrrrr
now beat...... WELL... DOO DOOO DOOOO
jonnycy1 1 year ago
This song is what defines SOULfood.
ahendricks0703 1 year ago
My face i numb
ExperTexper 1 year ago
FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xsellsbrod 1 year ago
one person doesnt like the fatback drums
cristov2k 1 year ago
i was absolutely born about 30 years too late
pd1zzl3 1 year ago 13
@pd1zzl3 seeing this live would absolutely top lady gaga and justin bieber :p
desertstormpawnage 1 year ago
@pd1zzl3 You're not the only one...
fangjangler 1 year ago
Would you happen to have a cut he put out around 68 or 69 called "Cook-Out"? If you have it, could you PLEAAASSSEEE post it....Thank you....
tlover1062 1 year ago
I can imagine Bill Cosby LOVING this... let's see leaning back with a this stupid look on his face like he is in the midst of eating a rotten olive while doing some crazy bobble-head move. Yes that would do nicely.
wheelzwheela 1 year ago 9
NOW BEAT......... WELL!!
littlenaitch2 1 year ago
Best bad azz soul and blues saxophone virtuoso. King Curtis you are deeply missed. RIP my very talented friend. You were damn good..
Jevezy 1 year ago
FLATWOUNDS !!!! YES SIR
TRJBASS 1 year ago
NOW BEAT.....WELL......YESSSSSS!
tlover1062 1 year ago
funk at its best
milan82ca 1 year ago
trigga happy geto boys
tmaine75 1 year ago
Karl Marlantes, the author of the excellent book "Matterhorn," set in 1969 about Marines fighting in the Vietnam War, cited this song.
kariebeez 1 year ago
This song gives me the creeps. i cant stop when i hear
keltanoo 1 year ago
Beautiful music ***************
Alisia56 1 year ago
give me 'bout half a teacup......OF BASS.
zmej1008 1 year ago 28
@zmej1008 Bum badum buum bum bum bum beruuuuum! :D
Skipskabriarius 1 year ago 21
@zmej1008 Only Jerry Jemmott's secrect recipe will do!
alspke 1 year ago
@zmej1008 Jerry Jemmott INVENTED THE REAL FUNKY BASS: The early James Brown bassist only was imitate the James Jamerson style (Jammerson was Motown Session Bassist). Eventually Larry Graham invented the "Slap bass".
funkberto 9 months ago
@funkberto: I played electric bass for years before switching to guitar, and let me tell you, this bassline caused me alot of hand cramps trying to play it.... it ain't easy, especially for a cat whose hands aren't giant... but talk about funky and in the pocket! JJ was the real deal, no question. Love that Cornell Dupree guitar and King saying "boiling memphis guitar... this gonna taste alright!"
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@zmej1008 I make sure to have at least a glass of bass with my breakfast every morning. It's good for the soul.
JuggernautJoey 8 months ago
MAGNIFICENT
chtichat 1 year ago
I'd like to spend some time with the foxy mama on the album cover!!
bultaco111 1 year ago
This is the best version of this unique song.
LonelyWalker11 1 year ago
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajajajjaja
minkuukel 1 year ago
The live version of this at the Fillmore is SICK. it doesn't seem to be on YouTube, but you can find it on iTunes for a buck....trust me, Bernard Dupree on drums, and it's off the charts good. it's worth the dollar.
WillBraden 1 year ago
@WillBraden the drummer is Bernard PURDIE.....not Dupree.....and if you like his playing, check out Steely Dan's orginal album version of "Babylon Sister"......the drum part is known as the "Purdie Shuffle"..........so smooth......
brotzo1 1 year ago
@brotzo1: The drummer is not Bernard Purdie. It's Gene Chrisman. This is the American Studios Band in Memphis.
tomthefunky 1 year ago
@tomthefunky: I always thought that King did this session with his road band... didnt know it was the cats at American. So that's Reggie Young on guitar, and not Cornell Dupree? Where did you discover this info? I'd love to know more about the gang at American, some of my all-time favs as musicians... thanks for the information.
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961: An amazing book came out last year called "Memphis Boys, The Story Of American Studios" by Roben Jones. I must warn you, it's not cheap. I think it set me back 50 clams but it's worth it. Maybe Amazon has a cheaper price. Everything they did is exhaustively researched. I was chatting with David Hood ( bassist with the Muscle Shoals band) last month. He was also amazed by the job she did.
This tune is covered in the book. King Curtis recorded quite a few albums at American.
tomthefunky 6 months ago
ca c de la sique
halladjnadia 1 year ago
1969
braves3100 1 year ago
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chumley983 1 year ago
The best, biggest, baddest ass saxaphone player in his time in the whole damn USA.. RIP King Curtis. You were the best. Many imitators but no duplicators.
Jevezy 1 year ago
Memphis Soul Stew - Great stuff!
spectro52 1 year ago
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT BRILLIANT
michaelhutchinson 2 years ago 20
Memphis Soul Stew ...what a stew its tastes lovely
King Curtis did a fine job and its a number I haven't heard in years ..well done for posting
hungryherbie 2 years ago 25
CLASSIC!!!!!
Bizarronumber4 2 years ago
Top music
olelangsrud 2 years ago 10
Enig Ole :)
Skipskabriarius 2 years ago
@Skipskabriarius
Jeg med ;)
Jebedoo 1 year ago
This song is great! Especially the Sax~
ainie27 2 years ago 2
MXIM!!! does anyone knwo how to upload music onto youtube?? cant believe they dont have K.C`s soul meeting?
mochachoes 2 years ago
This is the best of the classic "Memphis Soul Sound" Instrumentals-- turn the volume up when you listen to this beat. It will really get you blood boiling, NOW BEAT WELL!
Nothing today can come 500,000 miles close.
Sport67
GS455Stage1 2 years ago 3