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| Ace's 24-track Saturday Night Special comp features tracks from Esko Wallace, Flora D, The Corvairs and guitarist Curley Mays. |
New Breed is back with a bang on July 31. The opening track and title inspiration is Aaron Collins & the Teen Queens’ ‘Every Saturday Night’. Its R&B pedigree is inestimable; Aaron was a member of the Flairs/Flares LA vocal group and wrote songs for Z.Z. Hill, Jackie Day, Cookie Jackson and others and, in 1972, Ray Charles recorded his ‘Every Saturday Night’ for ABC. The Modern tape vaults have given up this original 1966 R&B take of the song with both Aaron and his sisters, the Teen Queens, performing at their best. All the more remarkable as the girls had not recorded since 1962 and it was to be their last session, both dying tragically a few years later.
More unissued beauties come from East Coast outfit The Corvairs with ‘I’ll Never Do It Again’, Oakland’s funky bluesman Johnny Talbot and ‘Satisfied’, Gay Meadows’ Atlanta-recorded ‘Head Doctor’, a trio of obscure Ohio R&B outfits – Little Macey & The Valiants, Big Charley & The Domans and Pee Wee Foster. Rare 45s come courtesy of Curly Mays, Pat Garvis, Esko Wallace and the Tren-teens. There are Ace CD tracks that went largely undiscovered by the New Breed crowd from Prince Conley, Rob Robinson and the Lon-Genes, while other highlights come from the very recently discovered Freddie Williams track ‘Purty Li'l Mama’ recorded for Norman Petty in New York, Slim & The Twilites’ New Orleans-sounding ‘Family Man’ and Tony Clarke’s early Detroit rocker ‘Your Love Must Be Taboo’ – presented digitally from master tape for the first time. We have stunning photos of Margaret Lewis, Flora D, the Metallics, Rob Robinson and Johnny “Guitar” Watson, along with some fax ‘n’ info courtesy of compiler Ady Croasdell. Check out the track list following the song clips. Pre-order a copy of New Breed R&B: Saturday Night Special directly from Ace right here: https://www.acerecords.co.uk/new-breed-rb-saturday-night-special
Various Artists – New Breed R&B: Saturday Night Special (Ace)
01 Every Saturday Night - Aaron Collins & The Teen Queens
02 I'll Never Do It Again - The Corvairs
03 Ain't That Good - Prince Conley
04 Compact Baby - Rob Robinson
05 Triple Zero - Esko Wallace
06 Purty Li'l Mama - Freddie Williams
07 Somethin's Wrong Baby - Margaret Lewis
08 Way Out Baby - Flora D
09 Family Man - Slim & The Twilites
10 You're Gonna Need Me - Big Charley & The Domans
11 Wait A Minute Baby - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
12 Almost Midnight (Take 3) - King Solomon
13 Show Me How To Shake Like That - The Lon-Genes
14 Head Doctor - Gay Meadows
15 You Can Be My Honey - Pee Wee Foster
16 Turn The Lamps Down Low - Pat Garvis
17 Your Yah-Yah Is Gone - The Tren-Teens
18 The Long John - Jarvis Jackson
19 Tighten Up & Pull Yourself Together - Sterling Magee
20 Satisfied - Johnny Talbot
21 Love Must Be Taboo - Tony Clarke
22 I'll Conquer The World - The Metallics feat J D Wright
23 Walking The Track - Little Macey & The Valiants
24 I'm Walkin' On - Curly Mays
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