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

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Featuring Brook Benton & Booker T & The MGs recording sessions (could this really be them recording "Time Is TIght?"), The The Mar-keys working out a horn arrangement (with Isaac Hayes playing sax, right ) and more.

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[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?

[sambsonwayfinder]

I believe the guys around the table with Issac are; Andrew Love (tenor sax with glasses), Packy Axton (tenor sax in the trench coat), Wayne Jackson (trumpet "I like me on the minor 3rd.."). Those three are better known as The Mar–Keys, while the quiet trumpet player is almost certainly David Porter; who was the other half of the formidable Porter/Hayes songwriting team. Lastly; if I'm not mistaken (which I could be), that's Mabel John being interviewed.

[bass0111]

 Outstanding/exceptionnel !!!

[Jonathan Gould]

Very definitely Packy Axton and Andrew Love on tenors, Wayne Jackson and Ben Cauley on trumpets, Isaac Hayes on baritone.

Ever since Steve Cropper mentioned in an interview how they avoided the use of cymbals on Stax recordings because they determined that "women didn't like cymbals," I keep noticing how often Al Jackson played his ride cymbal on Stax recordings: much more often than Motown or the JBs or other contemporary r&b bands...

[merseymain]

Outstanding footage. There must be more of this?

[Kris Holmes]

Makes me wish Cotillion hadn't overdubbed the strings & choir onto that Brook Benton track by the time it was released :-(

[AlexlloydSAX]

That other Trumpet player I think is actully Ben Cauley, trumpet player for the Bar Kays and only survivour of that terrible plane crash which took the lives of the rest of the Bar Kays and Otis Redding.....

[cov11]

What fantastic footage. The guy 'leading' the horns, on a sax himself, is Isaac Hayes. Not sure if the other white guy on sax is Joe Arnold? Hadn't Packy Axton stop playing with them by then? I'm guessing this was shot around 1969/70?

[latitudeCheck]

Rest in peace Duck Dunn. God Bless you and Comfort your family and friends in this sad time. Thank you Duck Dunn for the bounteous gifts of music you left for the world to enjoy.

[DGC019]

I think you're right except about it being Mable John, she looks different!

[sambsonwayfinder]

An amazing piece of History right here folks! How a French crew got in to film this....it's just amazing. The songs featured are Brook Benton - "She Knows What to Do for Me" (a cover of a Ben E King tune), The Emotions - "So I Can Love You" and yes, Booker T. & The MG's - "Time Is Tight". Superb!