Jumpin’ #25

Been a while since my last Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee mix, so here’s #25. It’s mostly just tunes I’ve been into since the last one.  There’s a track from the fantastic new Shannon & The Clams album and two from Richmond Fontaine‘s instrumental accompaniment to Willy Vlautin‘s wonderful new novel Don’t Skip Out On Me, plus the usual blend of niceness.

1. The Skatalites – Christine Keiler
2. Men Of North Country – I’m Com’un Home (In the Morn’un)
3. Richmond Fontaine – Dream of the City and the City Itself
4. Lee Dorsey – Four Corners
5. Hoyt Axton – Double Double Dare
6. The Delusionaires – The Scrump
7. Shannon & The Clams – The Boy
8. Purple Mundi – Stop Hurting Me Baby
9. The 5 Royales – Think
10. Rita Marley – Play Play
11. The Exciters – Tell Him
12. The Strangeloves – Night Time
13. Cindy & Bert – Der Hund Von Baskerville
14. The Collins Kids – Shortin’ Bread Rock
15. Roy Orbison – Domino
16. Jimmie Revard & His Okahoma Playboys – Dirty Dog
17. Tony Joe White – High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parish
18. Sister Roseta Tharpe – This Train
19. The Violinaires – Old Time Religion
20. Black Velvet – African Velvet
21. Mighty Sparrow – Jack Palance
22. Lito Barrientos y su Orquesta – Cumbia En Do Menor
23. Red Callender Sextet – Voodoo
24. Bobby Hebb – Sunny
25. Connie Francis – Fallin’
26. Little Anthony & The Imperials – Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop
27. She Trinity – He Fought The Law
28. Santiago Jimenez – Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio (Ranchera)
29. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Barnyard Boogie
30. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra – Tulip Or Turnip
31. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Alligator Wine
32. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Some Velvet Morning
33. Bobby Darin – Mack the Knife
34. Scott Walker – The Big Hurt
35. The Spaniels – Baby It’s You
36. Millie Jackson – It Hurts So Good
37. O.V. Wright – Everybody knows (the river song)
38. Ricky Nelson – Lonesome Town
39. Ry Cooder – Cancion Mixteca
40. The Broken Family Band – Nights In The Tractorbeam
41. Richmond Fontaine – Finding Horace On The Street
42. Stick In The Wheel – Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
43. John Lurie – Italian Walk

 

 

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Well, That Was Jumpin’

Well, Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee #6 was a whole lotta fun. Thanks to Rob Heron for some fine tunes, thanks for coming if you did.

I’m terrible at keeping any record of what I played, but judging by my singles box, it was probably this lot (in something like this order but I won’t swear to it…). We’ve got latin rock, northern soul, cool jazz, stompin’ R&B, soulful country, testifyin’ gospel, roots rock reggae and sixties mod…

• Eric Burdon & War – Spill The Wine
• The Barons – Money Don’t Grow On Trees
• Brenton Wood – Gimme Little Sign
• Peggy Lee – Fever
• Bobby Hebb – A Satisfied Mind
• Madeline Bell – Picture Me Gone
• Hortense Ellis – Woman of The Ghetto
• Junior Murvin – Police & Thieves
• Derrick  Morgan – Belly Woman
• Bill Doggett – Honky Tonk Popcorn
• Willie Hightower – Nobody But You
• Jimmy McCracklin – Let The Door Hit You
• Inez Foxx – Hi Diddle Diddle
• Diana Cole – Pawn Shop
• Esther Marrow – Chains Of Love
• Erma Franklin – You’ve Been Cancelled
• Bobbie Gentry – Touch ‘Em With Love
• Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
• Georgie Fame – Seventh Son
• Dixie Cups – Iko, Iko
• Dr John – Right Place, Wrong Time
• The Valentinos – It’s All Over
• Wayne Gibson – Under My Thumb
• Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Just Checked In
• Nancy Sinatra – Last Of The Secret Agents
• Rosemary Clooney – Come On-A My House
• Connie Francis – Fallin’
• Roland Alphonso – Easter Bonnet
• Frank Brown – Some Come, Some Go
• Sonny & Cher – The Beat Goes On
• Linda Lyndell – What A Man
• Sly & The Family Stone – Dance To The Music
• Shirley Ellis – The Nitty Gritty
• Al Brown’s Tunetoppers – The Madison
• Bunny Sigler – Let The Good Times Roll
• Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Zoot Suit Riot
• Earl Grant – House Of Bamboo
• The Box Tops – The Letter
• The Crystals – Da Doo Ron Ron
• Omar Kay – Turkish Coffee
• The Fantastic Johnny C – Hitch it To The Horse
• Aretha Franklin – Soulville
• Wendy Rene – Bar-B-Q
• Etta James – Tell Mama
• Earl Harrison – The Humphrey Stomp
• Georgie Fame – Madness
• Bobby Hebb – Sunny
• Nino Tempo & 5^th Avenue Sax – Sister James
• Clara Ward – Didn’t It Rain?
• Elvis Presley – Viva Las Vegas
• Black Velvet – African Velvet
• Mar Keys – Last Night
• Little Esther & Big Al – You Never Miss Your Water
• Wanda Jackson – Funnel Of Love
• Johnny Kidd & The Pirates – Shakin’ All Over
• Vince Taylor – Brand New Cadillac
• The Ad Libs – Appreciation

 

 

The next Jumpin’ is on June 16th – see you there.

Soul Finger

 

Another fantastic Soul Finger at the Cumberland last week. Here’s a selection of the tunes I played across my two and a bit sets…

 

 

1 The Swinging Medallions – Here It Comes Again

2 Bunny Sigler – Let The Good Times Roll / Feels So Good

3 Diana Cole – Pawn Shop

4 Junior Walker & The All-Stars – Shoot Your Shot

5 Little Milton – Ain’t No Big Deal

6 Jimmy Witherspoon – Hey, Mrs Jones

8 Alvin Cash & The Registers – Alvin’s Boo-Ga-Loo

9 Fantastic Johnny C – Hitch It To The Horse

10 Flamingos – Brooklyn Boogaloo

11 Shirley Ellis – The Nitty Gritty

12 Wendy Rene – Bar-B-Q

13 Aretha Franklin – Soulville

14 Candi Staton – I’d Rather Be An Old Man’s Sweetheart

15 Wayne Gibson – Under My Thumb

16 Earl Harrison – Humphrey Stomp

17 Eddie Carlton – It Will Be Done

18 Eddie Ray – Wait a Minute

19 Edith Little – I Couldn’t Take It

20 Five Stairsteps – Playgirl’s Love

21 Madeline Bell – Picture Me Gone

22 The Reflections – You’re My Baby (And Don’t You Forget It)

23 Jamo Thomas – I Spy (For The FBI)

24 Billy Ball & The Upsetters – Popcorn ’69

25 Young Holt Trio – Wack Wack

26 Esther Marrow – Chains of Love

27 Nino Tempo – Sister James

Jumpin’ #6

After a really special second instalment of Riddim down at Ernest – thanks for coming if you did – it’s already time to start thinking about the sixth Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee. Rob Heron (Soul Finger) will be our special guest for the evening, a year after his last appearance, and it promises to be a banger.

 

 

Happy New Year!

Well, folks, that was magnificent. One of the most fun New Year’s Eves I’ve ever had, a total roadblock and fantastic tunes all night. Thanks so much for coming if you did, and big love to Rob Heron, Jelly Jells, Giovanni Spatuzzi, Alex Johnson, Neil and Elise Hopper and Kathryn & Mark & the Cobalt Crew. Bloody marvellous. See you next year…

A Little Christmas Jumpin’

Here’s a little Christmas gift – the best thing about it being there are almost no bloody Christmas songs on it (The Staple Singers got through the filter because IT’S THE BLOODY STAPLE SINGERS AND THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT).

So when the turkey is just a hollowed-out carcass that the dog is eyeing greedily, everyone has fallen out and you’re drunk out of your tiny mind on snowballs and sherry, stick this mix on. Have a dance, have another drink and by the time it slips into the slow, melancholy, quiet section at the end, you’ll be collapsing into a carb-fuelled slumber anyhow.

There’s a couple of tracks from the newish Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has been blowing my tiny mind, and something from the imminent new Stick In The Wheel album. Otherwise it’s the usual blend of tunes that I’ve been listening to a lot lately.

1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Mad
2. Bunny Sigler – Let The Good Times Roll
3. Elvis Presley – Crawfish
4. Ann Sexton – It’s All Over Bar The Shouting
5. The Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas?
6. Hollie Cook – Superstar
7. Joe Tex & U Black – Rub-A-Dub Evening
8. Huey Piano Smith – Little Liza Jane
9. Lito Barrientos – Cumbia En Do Menor
10. Dan Sartain – Besame Mucho
11. The Coasters -Three Cool Cats
12. The MarKeys – Last Night
13. Earl Harrison – Humphrey Stomp
14. Elsie Wheat – Tippin’
15. James Hunter Six– Light Of My Life
16. The Megatons – Shimmy Shimmy Pt 1
17. Nick & The Jaguars -Ichi-bon #1
18. The Liverbirds – He’s About A Mover
19. Aretha Franklin – Niki Hoeky
20. Bobbie Gentry – Thunder In The Afternoon
21. PP Arnold – Brand New Day
22. Preservation Hall Jazz Band – One Hundred Fire
23. Art Neville – Bo Diddley
24. Howlin’ Wolf – Dorothy Mae
25. Chubby Checker – Misirlou
26. Prince Jazzbo – Penny Reel
27. Johnny Clarke – Poor Marcus
28. The Como Mamas – Out Of The Wilderness
29. Sister Goldia Haynes Choir – The Truth Is In The Gospel
30. Stick In The Wheel – Over & Over
31. Uncle Tupelo – Acuff-Rose
32. Hank Williams – Ramblin’ Man
33. The Famous Times – The Blue Man
34. Flying Burrito Brothers – Hot Burrito #1
35. Mary Gauthier – I Drink
36. The Deslondes – She’d Better Be Lonely
37. Howe Gelb – Impossible Thing
38. Moondog – All Is Loneliness
39. Sonny Sharrock – Who Does She Hope To Be?

 

 

The Joint Was… Jumpin’

Dunno about you, but I think Jumpin’ #5 might have been the best yet? A packed house full of lovely people, big on dancing and low on drunken idiocy (DJs excepted). Fine tunes from yr man Alex Johnson and just a generally brilliant night. So thanks for coming if you did.

The next Jumpin’ is on February 24th  but before that there’s obviously Midnite Train at Cobalt on New Year’s Eve. See you there!

 

See You All In Soulville!

Seems like ages since the last Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee but we’re back on November 25th with a stack of new tunes.

Joining us again is Alex Johnson, who absolutely killed it last time, and we’re sure this will be a big one.

Expect soul and rocksteady and rhythm & blues and funk and garage and surf and rockabilly and gospel and more and tunes like this…

So join us down at Ernest in a couple of weeks and let’s have a blast!

Midnite Train To Cobalt!

We can finally confirm that Rob Heron and I are putting on the party of the year on New Year’s Eve. Yes, Soul Finger and Jumpin’ With Stagger Lee Present Midnite Train at the splendid Cobalt Studios

A host of DJs, a lot of general wonderfulness in a fantastic Ouseburn venue. All for a mere fiver in advance. For all your end of year soul-funk-mod-boogaloo-R&B-latin-rockabilly-garage-rocksteady-afrobeat needs!

All vinyl, all awesome, all night.

Details here, ticket link imminent

 

 

Rumble In The Jumble

Just a heads up that I’m going to be hosting a stall AND DJing at Rumble in The Jumble down at the lovely Prohibition Bar in Gateshead this Sunday afternoon.

 

I’m going to be selling literally hundreds of records, CDs, DVDs, books, comics, tshirts, belt buckles and such, at often knockdown prices.

The CDs are from when I used them to DJ so I have hundreds of soul, R&B, country, blues, garage, rockabilly and jazz CDs. They’re mostly in plastic wallets rather than their cases, and many don’t have their sleeves, which is why I’m selling them for £1-2!

So come down to Prohibition, buy some stuff, drink some booze, meet good folks. Sorted.