Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul

Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul

ASIN: B00005LOCN

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Second volume of New Orleans funk & soul subtitled Saturday Night Fish Fry and featuring, Lee Dorsey, Eddie Bo, The Meters, Dr. John, Irma Thomas and more. Soul Jazz Records 2001.

Tracks:

Pass The Hatchet - Roger And The Gypsies
Mean Man - Betty Harris
Iko Iko - Dixie Cups
Funky Soul - David Batiste
Where Is Love - Eldridge Holmes
Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
Hung Up - Salt
Little Liza Jane - Huey Piano Smith
The Thang (Part 2) - Eddie Bo
Soul, Soul, Soul - The Wild Magnolias
Soul Train - Bobby And The Heavyweights
Break In The Road - Betty Harris
Hump Back - Eldridge Holmes
Message From The Meters - The Meters
Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Dr. John
Don't Mess With My Man - Irma Thomas
Cold Bear - The Gaturs
Roll Call - Oliver Morgan
The Next Ball Game - Inell Young
Yes We Can Can - Lee Dorsey
Ruler Of My Heart - Irma Thomas
I Can't Help It - Smokey Johnson

Album Description

Second volume of New Orleans funk & soul subtitled Saturday Night Fish Fry and featuring, Lee Dorsey, Eddie Bo, The Meters, Dr. John, Irma Thomas and more. Soul Jazz Records 2001.

Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul

Average customer rating:

Giv' Praise to New Orleans
Digging Made Easy!
Once more, with feelin'

Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005N8VX
Release Date: 2001-07-10

Tracks:

Pass The Hatchet - Roger And The Gypsies
Mean Man - Betty Harris
Iko Iko - Dixie Cups
Funky Soul - David Batiste
Where Is Love - Eldridge Holmes
Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
Hung Up - Salt
Little Liza Jane - Huey Piano Smith
The Thang (Part 2) - Eddie Bo
Soul, Soul, Soul - The Wild Magnolias
Soul Train - Bobby And The Heavyweights
Break In The Road - Betty Harris
Hump Back - Eldridge Holmes
Message From The Meters - The Meters
Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Dr. John
Don't Mess With My Man - Irma Thomas
Cold Bear - The Gaturs
Roll Call - Oliver Morgan
The Next Ball Game - Inell Young
Yes We Can Can - Lee Dorsey
Ruler Of My Heart - Irma Thomas
I Can't Help It - Smokey Johnson

Customer Reviews:

Giv' Praise to New Orleans.......2006-02-12

This compliation from Soul Jazz is one of the best comps that that I have come across. I have never been dissappointed from a Soul Jazz Release. Lee Dorsey's tracks on the album are pivotal to the New Orleans scene, alongside the Meters, Dr. John, and a whole bunch more. Huey Smith's track is of great note. This album will blow your socks off. For those who like to dance, this will get your funk juices flowin' and make you shake your thang until its nasty!

Digging Made Easy!.......2003-01-11

Funk lovers unite. Saturday Night Fish Fry, put out on Soul Jazz, the label that only puts out the highest quality compilations struck gold with this album. For those of use that love old school breaks, punchy trumpets, and the sultry voices of yesterdays funk divas will be awe inspired by the tracks on Fish Fry.
New Orleans, the home of funk, (an older term for the smells after sex) is also home to Lee Dorsey, Eddie Bo, Betty Harris, The Meters whose obscure 45's are brought out of the vaults and onto cd. This is the album that makes true record diggers work look easy. While artists like DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Rza, and other hip-hop producers scour used record shops coast to coast looking for these songs, Soul Jazz made the work easy for you and put them all on one compilation that will get any fish fry, block party, or sock hop rockin'!

Once more, with feelin'.......2001-08-26

Owners of the previous set in SoulJazz Records' series of New Orleans releases (New Orleans Funk) will notice the slight alteration in the subtitle of this second volume: "New Orleans Funk and SOUL." This change is reflected in the inclusion of such artists as Irma Thomas and Betty Harris, whose funk inclinations were mainly confined to the rhythm tracks - not surprisingly, the "New Orleans funk sound" was built from the drums upward, so earlier 60s tracks like "The Next Ball Game" feature frenetic double-time drumming with heavy syncopation on the bass drum overlayered with melodies more akin to Motown (in this case)or to early rock 'n' roll, a syncretism which can be intoxicating or somewhat anachronistic. However, the compilers turned up some ultra-rare funk singles and album sides for this collection as well, the most enthralling of which is, in my opinion, Eddie Bo's "The Thang (Part 2)", wherein the bassline begins about a minute into the record and a wah-wah guitar line, repressed in the mix for virtually the entire track, suddenly bursts out towards the end. Tracks by Lee Dorsey, The Meters, and The Wild Magnolias ensure visibility, and the liner notes include interviews with three of the main players in the N.O. record industry.

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