Here's Them's 1965 hit version of "Baby Please Don't Go":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtHt8BstCs
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Here's Them's 1965 hit version of "Baby Please Don't Go":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtHt8BstCs
Here's Big Bill Broonzy's original version from 1935:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttvoGmGijU
Here Elvis Presley's popular version of "Crying In The Chapel":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kLA20ZTWeg
Here's The Orioles' 1953 original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYOqbV6Q4XY
Here's The Crew-Cuts' 1954 hit cover version of "Sh-Boom":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYOqbV6Q4XY
Here's The Crew-Cuts' 1954 hit cover version of "Sh-Boom":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew
Here's The Chords' original, which sold much less, but is infinitely better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfoseSZtllo
Here's The Harptones' original 1953 hit, "A Sunday Kind Of Love":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYCtdZpOMg
Here's an up-tempo later version by The Del-Vikings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-IHwfACk0&list=RDQZ-IHwfACk0&start_radio=1
Here's Mel Carter's 1965 hit "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcfsLKv33Bc
Here's The Orioles' original beautiful R&B version, which many people who weren't lucky enough to have urban radio stations with some hours dedicated to "Race Music" in the early '50s never got to hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alvdnt_7xeU
Here's Ray Charles' 1955 hit, "I've Got A Woman":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIrEJzJjqAQ
Here's Freddie Scott's slower ballad version from late 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWx1fUqhLx0
Here's Ed Townsend's big 1958 hit, "For Your Love", which he wrote for Ray Pollard's Wanderers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eM8uS8-Ods
Here's The Wanderers' version with a spectacular lead from Ray Pollard. By the time they released this in 1961, Townsend had his hit selling for 3 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cC8dB0OdUQ
Here's Tommy Edwards' big 1958 hit, "It's All In The Game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtizr2G_7Bk
I wonder how many of you know his original 1951 version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRynF3nJxEM
Here's the original label of Gino Washington's 1964 Regional hit, "Gino Is A Coward", which was later, picked up by Ed Wingate's Ric Tic Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRn5gZafxFM
I wonder how many of you remember his original 1962 recording of that song? I like it MUCH, MUCH more than the later, faster version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHBqMcHkWo
Here's The Jarmels' 1961 hit, "A Little Bit of Soap":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuUL7MEktt8
Here's Yvonne Carroll's 1963 version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQtOFrdp--o
Here's George Harrison's fairly recent hit [['70s? '80s? '90s? - I have no idea, and no conception of time)[[anything after 1965 is fairly recent- e.g. "new" to me), "I've Got My Mind Set on You":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwjdGSqO0k
Ha! Ha! - I had to list the song name to find out who did this remake! :cool:
Here's James Ray's original from 1963 [[the one I bought):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68Fob0QA_k
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I seem to be the only one here now. I hope I haven't driven everyone away by posting too much, and by posting uninteresting choices. :confused:
Here's Henry Alston's original version of Goffin & King's "Hey Everybody" from 1963 on Canadian Colpix, no less [[Wish I had found that back in '63). Have to be satisfied with my US copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CBJZ7KYrE
Here's Ramona King's 1965 version: Did Goffin and King ever write a bad song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkVHOkvOog
Here's Richie Havens' 1966 version of Gordon Lightfoot's "I Can't Make It Anymore":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KrMFJHla4k
Here's our own Spyder Turner singing it in 1967, at his best! A classic, recorded at Ralph and Russ' Terra Shirma Studio- Great backing track by Denis Coffey and Mike Theodore & crew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WLRnyMLiw
My favourite version of this HDH song!.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL7mjcv4Yd8
Original by Clarence Carter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHmcZNSxiAo
My favorite remake by Etta James [[with gender switch):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bwZSEtoUVU
Both versions recorded at Muscle Shoal's Fame studios.
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I've always liked Etta James' version better. But the one you uploaded here wasn't her hit 45 version. This one was slightly different vocal, and mix, too. This one is sharper and cleaner. But, I like the one I grew up with, that was played on WVON, KGFJ, and WDIA.
Wow...I thought that posted stereo version sounded different than what I heard before.. Anyhow, here is the mono mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzKhQuaHU0
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After listening to both versions back-to-back, I can't hear a difference in the vocal. It's only the stereo vs. mono difference, and the mix- the stereo version is much cleaner, and sharper. That makes a big difference in the way the song sounds.