The Get Downs, Vol. 1

Artist: Murray Saul
Label: Taurus Gold
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 737985500125
EAN: 0737985500125
ASIN: B00000J5QC

Release Date: 1999-06-01

The Get Downs, Vol. 1

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Tracks:

10/10/75
11/17/75
12/19/75
1/16/76
5/15/76
6/11/76
10/22/76
5/11/79
Taurus Gold ('82)
5/6/94
2/4/99

Customer Reviews:

You gotta, gotta, gotta get this cd!.......2004-12-12

Never in the history of radio has there been anyone quite like Murray Saul. The heart and soul of the #1 rock station in america, WMMS Cleveland, for years, Murray was an icon with few peers. He wasn't a dj. He wasn't an artist. He was the 'GET DOWN' man. Every friday night at 6 o'clock,it seemed like every radio in the city tuned to WMMS to hear him. Young people, old people, white people, black people, rich people, poor people--- everyone listened to the 'GET DOWN' man. It was amazing! You'd hear him blasting from the radios in passing cars. You'd hear him in every electronics store and department store. I even remember walking in downtown Cleveland one friday evening and hearing him echoing between the buildings, the sound eminating from office windows above. It was our call-- our call to forget the troubles of the past week. Forget the hassles at school, at work, at home. Forget anything that was getting you down. It was friday! It was the weekend! It was time to party-- to let down your hair, cast aside your inhibitions and go nuts. Enjoy life, enjoy sex, drugs, rock and roll, or whatever made you happy. And we did... Buy this cd and listen to it. It will make you feel good. From his rants about the 'slavedriver' (your teacher, boss, mom, dad...), to his 'recipies' or turning your lover into everything from a tossed salad to an ice cream sundae ( "add a little whipped cream, mmm...and don't forget the nuts!" ) you'll find it at once entertaining and relevant. It isn't one of those things that 'you just had to be there'. You can be there now. Listen. Enjoy. And, above all else--" Get Down, Dammit!"

Spread the Word.......2003-06-22

There's still a buzzard hanging out my window, but I think he's waiting for me to kick now. I was caught up in those groovy wavy gravy kinda days, in Cleveburg, when the Get Down Man was raving and slathering the call to the weekend.

There was nothing like it then and still is nothing like it now. Five minutes of every Friday night was dedicated to the not-so-harp-like tones of the rabbi of rock, the cantor of cool. A classy verbal taunt unlike anything the great Wolfman or any other rock iconoclast has equalled. I was lucky enough to have a good friend, still employed in Downtown Cleveburg, who had Harmon Cardon reels of virtually every word. At the turn of the millenia, we listened to hours of this stuff and it was like a wake-up call. If you don't have the luck to know someone who had this kind of adulation to the supreme Friday theme of the 70's--pick this one up. Pop it in the CD-player on your drive home Friday--and let your soul fly free!

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Music Album

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Music CD

All There Is ~ Chuck Loeb

The Gospel Truth ~ Patti Moran McCoy

Heart's Desire ~ Judy Niemack

Echoes of Ellington 1 & 2 ~ Chris Barber

Legendary Big Bands ~ Benny Goodman

Caminando ~ Sur Caribe

Gypsy Rumba ~ Various Artists

Swingin Party ~ Dorlis

Ao Vivo ~ Netinho De Paula

Le Sanctuaire d'Is ~ Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites