Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 090771108029
EAN: 0090771108029
ASIN: B000087DTG
Release Date: 2003-02-25
The Daisy/Tiger Records Story: Everybody Come Clap Your Hands!
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Label: Sundazed Music Inc. Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 090771108029 EAN: 0090771108029 ASIN: B000087DTG Release Date: 2003-02-25 |
The Daisy/Tiger Records Story: Everybody Come Clap Your Hands!
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The Daisy/Tiger Records story features every single track released by Daisy and Tiger, all from the original master tapes, plus for the first time ever, three previously unissued alternate versions. From Dee Dee Warwick and Bessie Banks to Alvin Robinson and Roy Buchanan, everything on the label as dripping with the magic Leiber & Stoller had woven so well with previous chart-topping acts like the Coasters, the Drifters and the Clovers. Sundazed. 2003.Customer Reviews:
Packed with "should've been" hits of Leiber & Stoller.......2003-05-23
The duo's subsequent writing and production success at Atlantic throughout the late '50s and early '60s is impressive enough, but when one considers the sides they wrote and produced on Capitol, RCA (including hit singles for Elvis Presley), Scepter, Wand and numerous other labels, their output is truly staggering. It should be no surprise then that their second foray into label ownership, Tiger Records (and subsequently its sister label, Daisy), yielded a superb collection of singles and B-sides. What's truly astounding is that the labels' combined output, collected here in its entirety, had virtually no success on the charts.
Starting with Tippie and the Clovers (comprised of Roosevelt "Tippie" Hubbard and three members of the original Clovers), Tiger and Daisy turned out a tremendous string of soul, pop, and R&B singles from the pens of Leiber & Stoller, Barry & Greenwich, Van McCoy and others. The debut single, "Bossa Nova, Baby," would become a hit for Elvis Presley the following year, but the original version, with a superb bass and drums bottom, jazzy vocal arrangement, and swinging sax solo failed to even touch the charts. The flip, "The Bossa Nova (My Heart Said)," features a similar arrangement, but with more of a Drifters' feel. The label had similar bad luck with Bessie Banks' original recording of "Go Now." Though this superbly soulful original has become better known via retrospective anthologies, it was eclipsed on the charts by the Moody Blues remake.
Beyond these two track Daisy and Tiger's compositions were relegated to nearly complete obscurity. Cathy Saint's "Big Bad World" had all the elements of a Brill Building success -- strong lead vocal, swinging drums, horn chart, and girlgroup harmonies -- but failed in the aftermath of JFK's assassination. The B-side, "Mr. Heartbreak," is a lovely ballad in the Dusty Springfield vein. Alvin Robinson's superb New Orleans influenced "Something You Got" (Tiger's only chart entry at #54) combines vocal elements of Otis Redding and Ray Charles, with a sublimely restrained horn chart. The flip, a remake of The Coasters "Searchin'," adds a wonderful bit of Memphis soul.
The labels also produced a pair of fine rock 'n' roll instrumentals from Bob Moore and the Temps. Their "Trophy Run" combines the guitar swagger (courtesy of none other than Roy Buchanan) and romping rhythms of Lonnie Mack, Duane Eddy and Link Wray, and "Braggin'" adds a bit Sunset Strip styled harmonica and organ. Vic Donna's sides are straight boy pop, with a vocal that sounds quite a bit like then session vocalist Tony Orlando.
Leola & The Lovejoys hold the distinction of being the only artists to release two singles on the Tiger label, and all four of their sides are fine slices of soul. The gospel-tinged "It's Mighty Nice" and "Wait 'Round the Corner" show off their strong vocals, and Barry & Greenwich's "He Ain't No Angel" is a girlgroup dance tune that foreshadows the songwriters' work at Red Bird. Dionne Warwick's younger sister, Dee Dee, though primarily employed as a backing singer, also had her first release on Tiger, featuring a pair of tunes written by Van McCoy.
The song that truly set the table for the Leiber & Stoller's subsequent success at Red Bird is Moody and the Delta's "Everybody Come Clap Your Hands." Written by Barry & Greenwich and produced by Joe Jones in 1964, this upbeat tune shakes off the R&B and doo-wop intonations of the '50s and stakes out a freer '60s soul sound. The dance beat brings to mind Wilson Pickett's and Bobby Freeman's soul songs from the mid-60s. The flip, "Monkey Climb," is indicative of the groups New Orleans roots - roots that would pay off handsomely with The Dixie Cups.
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