Hear Rose Battiste demo on WFMU's Downtown Soulville show

Check out Matt Weingarden's Downtown Soulville show on WFMU-FM featuring Rose Battiste!

Here's the scoop...

Rose Battiste fans, I'm fairly confident in saying there's nowhere else in the universe besides my radio show from tonight that you can hear the bare-bones demo of her Thelma single followed by the released, produced version of the same song. You don't have to be a Rose Battiste fan to enjoy! But if you are, check it out for sure. Listen here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/128311

Take a trip to Downtown Ghoulville with Mr. Finewine!

WFMU's Mr. Finewine put together a swingin' Spookareno Downtown Ghoulville mix for some Halloween thrills and chills.   

Listen to Matt Weingarden's Downtown Ghoulville show on WFMU-FM right here. 

Midweek Mixdown: Mission45 with Mr Fine Wine & Double Agent 7

Downtown Soulville's Mr. Fine Wine joins Double Agent 7 for an end-to-end burner of rockin' R&B sevens. 

Our guest selector this month on The Mission45 radio show is the one and only Mr. Fine Wine from Downtown Soulville on WFMU-FM in New York (https://wfmu.org/) His show, which we are huge fans of, has been running a incredible 27 years and his phenomenal collection of records is truly a treasure trove to behold, a glimpse of which you will hear in his two amazing sets which are riddled with back to back killer 45s. And we got to have a little chat with him as well so stay tuned in for that. Oh, and we also play a stack of toe-tappin', hip shakin', head spinnin' records too. Listen on Mixcloud right here. 

This show was originally broadcast on www.musicboxradio.co.uk and just to say this is going to be our last radio show for a while as we're taking some time out but we will back soooon, we promise! x

Here's the tracklist: 

Double Agent 7 -

The Lamplighters – Bebop Wino

Judy Harriet – Goliath

Dick Banks – Dirty Dog

The Fabulous Gardenias – What’s the Matter with Me?

The Cadillacs – Holy Smoke Baby

Billy the Kid – A Dancin’ Whippersnapper

Sinner Strong – Don’t Knock it

Ruby Lee – I’m Gonna Put the Watch on You

Conne Christmas - Big Chief 

Arthur Alexander – Baby Baby

Jerry Mcain – Twist ‘62

Chuck Fayne – Tokyo Stomp

The Latins – Habibi Twist

Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go

MR. FINE WINE - 

Gus Jenkins and Orchestra, Copper Tan (Flash)

The Composers, You and Yours (Era)

The Soulsmen, It’s Hard but It’s Fair (Juggy)

Goodtime Charlie, Let Me Love You (Break Out)

The Starlets, Guitar Twist (Middle C)

The Wilder Brothers, Loca Chica (Fenwick)

Charlie Gabriel and His Sextet, Two Way Pa-Ka Way (Jam)

Jim Jackson, You Make Me Feel So Good (Space)

Prince Royals, Anna Mae (Kari)

Mo Jo and His Chi 4, She’s a Whole Lot’s a Woman (Adell)

Willie Wilcher, Hoopy Doo (Mary Jane)

Professor Shake ‘Em Up, Why You Wanna Leave Me (Double L)

Buddy Franklin, The Deacon (Reverb)

Deloris Ealy, I’ve Been Looking (Velvet)

Willie Robinson and Rockin Imperial, I Feel Alright (Stephanie)

Daniel Madison, It Don’t Matter Baby (Transnational)

Jarvis Jackson, Show Me (Sims)

Barbara Christian, Not Like You Boy (Brownie)

Tommy Dent, Soul Thing (Cobblestone)

John Wesley, Love Is Such a Funny Thing (Melic)

Ruby Johnson, Don’t Start Nothing (Neb’s)

The Out-Crowds, Shake Yourself (Newark)

George Woods, I Know You Got Someone Else (Hot Line)

James McMurry, I’m in a Trance (Southern City)

Charley Wynn, Action Time (Jim Gem)

Althea Allison, When It Rains It Pours (C-O-S)

Double Agent 7 -

Ruby Johnson – Keep On Keepin On

Jean Wells – Hello Baby Goodbye Too

Thelma Jones – Stronger

Barbara Carr – Don’t Knock Love

Willie Mitchell – That Driving Beat

Etta James – Fire

Margo Thunder – Expressway to your heart

Ted Taylor – You Give Me Nothing to Go On

The Thorton Sisters – I Keep Forgettin’

Mia Vergara – Mr. Doctor

Ding-Dongs calling and Melvin Davis too!

Another day, another Mark Sultan side project, right? This time our favourite turbaned drum thumper who is alternately known as BBQ has thrown in with fellow Montrealer, psychobilly rebel Bloodshot Bill last seen raising a ruckus in Berlin with King Khan as the Tandoori Knights. The gruesome twosome from the city of smoked meat are calling themselves The Ding-Dongs and they ain't messin' around. Well, a little. Evidently, the 13 unhinged tracks of trashy terror they waxed together proved a bit too rock 'n' roll for labels here in Canada  ("We don't really get it – with a name like the Ding-Dongs, we were expecting to hear some glockenspiel").

However, it's just the sort of recklessly raunchy slop that Billy Miller and Miriam Linna have built their Norton recording empire upon so they jumped at the chance to release the Ding Dongs dandy debut which is available now on CD and LP at all right-on record retailers.
To help sell their hot new product, Mark and Bill took a camera out onto the snowy streets of Montreal and forced unsuspecting citizens to listen to a Ding-Dongs tune, then documented their puzzled/annoyed reactions for the info-mercial below. Watch for a cameo appearance by my pal Denis, very convincing in the role of the bemused owner cool Montreal record shop Le Pick-up (169 Avenue des Pins Est at Avenue de l'Hotel de Ville).

 



Melvin Davis comes crawling back

Also new from Norton is a 7-inch single from Detroit R&B swinger Melvin Davis which pairs an unreleased thriller I Won't Come Crawling Back To You recorded in 1962 at D-town's famed Fortune Records cinderblock studio on Third Avenue with his rare rookie brush-off belter for the Jack Pot label, I Don't Want You No More from 1961 – a very good production year. Fans of Davis' Detroit contemporaries such as Gino Washington, Nathaniel Mayer and Andre Williams should take note.

Even better news is that the 67 year-old Groovesville great is still active and will be celebrating the single release with a Detroit performance backed by the Party Stompers featuring former Detroit Cobras guitarist Jeff Meier at the Park Bar (2040 Park Avenue at West Elizabeth) on Saturday, May 15.
As an added attraction, Danny Kroha (of the Gories, Demolition Doll Rods and Rocket 454) will be introducing his new group with a lively opening set and the mayor of Downtown Soulville, Mr. Finewine along with Ann Arbor Soul Club members in good standing Brad Hales and Breck T. Bunce will be spinning an astonishing selection of vintage 45s you're unlikely to hear anywhere else.  Advance tickets for this dyn-o-mite Detroit getdown are just $8 and available from The Crofoot (call 248-858-9333 or see link below). Seems like it could be time for a Motor City road trip.

I Won't Come Crawling Back  by Melvin Davis w/The Party Stompers



LINKS
The Ding-Dongs http://www.myspace.com/officialdingdongs
Norton Records http://www.nortonrecords.com/
Le Pick-up http://www.myspace.com/lepickup
Melvin Davis http://www.myspace.com/melvindavisdetroit
Party Stompers http://www.myspace.com/partystompers
Park Bar http://www.myspace.com/theparkbar
Ann Arbor Soul Club http://www.myspace.com/a2soulclub
The Crofoot http://www.thecrofoot.com/