thread for old songs that you never heard til recentlybut which are far out fuckin great

more'n 40 years old & i never heard it til today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqqiHLEKPI

This is really good! Reminds me of Ian Dury a bit

I gather this was quite a hit at the time, but I had never heard "Here Comes the Judge" until a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0SGqN0Ndk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAqnM1PP5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUl1bqv4vY

Man, I will never forget hearing “Here Comes the Judge” for the first time, a true jaw-hitting-the-floor couldnt believe what i was hearing moment

Yes! Just happened to me.

I remember "Ring My Bell" being on the radio and my dad saying it was a song about sex and 9-year-old me was trying to figure out how/what.

re Here Comes The Judge, who was first??

https://www.discogs.com/release/1374986-Shorty-Long-Here-Comes-The-Judge

May 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc72r-gLwUs

I knew this answer song by Cliff Nobles (his follow-up to "The Horse"/"Love Is All Right") long before I knew the Shorty Long record it was answering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-I_ZAowys

The story I've read is that it was Pigmeat Markham's routine but others got it to record first. So when he eventually did, it was kind of getting respect for being the originator. But also it seems like a routine that probably had long roots. He'd been around for a while by then, he was in his 60s when the single hit.

This Tonight Show performance is great, Vaudeville funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohq9h6QIcHY

Recently discovered this one on a playlist of Randy Cozens' Mod 100: A Rockabilly dude goes Soulboi and unloads a banger...this occasionally get erroneously credited to Tommy James...Ronnie Spector covered it on one of her comeback albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9zCDwYTMQ

Mickey Lee Lane: "Hey Sah-Lo-Ney"

That's great.

One of my new (old) favorite things is Allen Toussaint's non-Lee Dorsey productions from the mid-'60s (Betty Harris, Sansu Records etc.). Arthur Conley later covered this in a last-ditch attempt to make that "Sweet Soul Music" lightning strike twice. Oddly enough, this original predates that song by a year or so! What Stax would have sounded like if it had been founded & based in New Orleans instead of Memphis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMTpkxEBAw

Warren Lee: "Star Revue"

Arthur Conley's version from 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7z9gd6tjM

1970 1969

"Again and again" by the bird and the bee.... Apparently 15 years went by and I never heard it until last Wednesday when it was on this radio station I follow. I've been playing it 'again and again' since!

I remember "Ring My Bell" being on the radio and my dad saying it was a song about sex and 9-year-old me was trying to figure out how/what.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra)

Lol this is pretty much my same experience, but instead of my dad it was an older cousin.

Some great songs in this thread. I will have to come back and propose something interesting when the next “eureka” moment comes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQBkKnUfriE

Last one I remember is Todd Rundgren - Healing pt. 1. Discovered it by watching the movie “the worst person in the world” a few months ago. I’ve played it a couple of times in social gatherings since then and it’s inevitable that someone asks what song it is. It has a very magical quality to it…. I should probably start listening to Todd Rundgren. I only know this song, the one on Almost Famous (it wouldn’t have made any difference) and I Saw the Light and they’re all great.

Yes, you should definitely listen to more Todd Rundgren!!!

I haven't heard so much but A Wizard/A True Star and Hermit of Mink Hollow were common listens when I was in grade school: you need to listen to more Rundgren.

I promise I will. I searched and ILM has made an artist poll on him so I’ll use that as a guide.

Heard this last night in a hotel bar of all places. Thought I'd heard every major '60s raver of this ilk. Due to ambient noise in the room I couldn't hear it with clarity and suspected it was a contemporary artist doing a pastiche-y kind of thing. This is from after Stevie Winwood had left the group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_T8Ue8pvIE

^ (Spencer Davis Group)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdw7oTAFSA

Does 1986 count as old? I'd never heard a note of Big Black's music until the other day. Bowled over by "Kerosene".

That Spencer Davis Group track is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=becQ5gjwoEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZYBhlBomk

Louis Jordan - 65 bars

Just recently discovered this one and I’ve been obsessed:

Valerie Simpson - silly wasn’t it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yymh27hwfss

wonderful!

Can't believe I never heard Otis and Carla's Tramp before last week, it's such a blast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNWSI-AP1cA

This is just 4 years old, but new to me. Instant classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc50wHexbwg

Astonishing late 60s orchestral epic from Kathe Green. Heard on Landy Chanticleer's Ritual Music Show on WFMU, where I discover so many great tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1oHR3cb6So

Superb Memphis soul that I only heard recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRHLOT7wl4

And one more for now, this stone cold banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qANTSHIivRY

i never knew (♡-_-♡)

Dalida - (i found my) love in portofino [1959]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnBIB9Jrmn4

Bought a copy of Blood Sweat and Tears Greatest Hits from a thrift store the other day. I was already quite familiar with a bunch of the Dylan Clayton Thomas songs like Spinning Wheel, You've Made Me So Very Happy, Go Down Gamblin and Lucretia Mac Evil, but somehow had never heard this song from their first album. Granted it was never released as a single, but I was also unfamiliar with the covers of it done by such artists as Donny Hathaway and April Winehouse. Though as far I can tell, this is the only version that has the line "I could be president of General Motors, baby"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hJeZbNepI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuO7eXYxDI

Heard this on the radio after not listening to radio in the car for a while. Obviously not a deep cut but I had never heard it before and it hit me hard.

April Winehouse

Look make your mind up, which is it?

hahah. I meant Amy Winehouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDd2Gn019g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_UGlsc2bog

I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYoRaxgOE0

wow, I thought everyone knew that one! It's definitely a jam

haha yeah I was like "how the fuck have I never heard about this"

not enough oldies station listening in my youth I guess

discovered this one around 2015 I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7Fb6Ql-oQ

never heard this song or this dude til about a year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5TH1XVyC8

ILX turned me on to them before:

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT" is my reaction to Todd Tamanend Clark's NOVA PSYCHEDELIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3cISZakFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZy7G36RyY

Mina Mazzini - Johnny Kiss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwrZtdasSpo

Stuff that made my playlists:

Harmony Four - Got to Make a Hundred
Promise - I'm Not Ready for Love
Kevin Ayers - When Your Parents Go to Sleep
Ofege - It's Not Easy
The Dixie Cups - I'm Gonna Get You Yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtSCtSqaX-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdlw6rq2VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc-8Mp75b0

a few years ago i went to help a band record some backing vocals for a couple of tracks.
one ended up on their album, the other didn't.
the one that didn't featured a weird chant in a language i had no idea about.
until an edit of the track featured on a mixtape i picked up recently i had no idea what it was that we were trying to chant.
turns out it was this, which i have since become rather fixated on :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPDnTq_eai0

Thanks for that, Mark! I played it on my radioshow last night: https://hearthis.at/djmelson/xl902024-10-08/

That is indeed a jam!

niiiice!

glad folks are enjoying it.
has been in my head for years and i have always wanted to know more about it, so when it was featured on a mixtape i was able to isolate it and feed it into one of those web tools, and bingo.
my decade old earworm was resolved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwXg-fLFuQE

that whole comp is fantastic

I was trying to check something Greil Marcus wrote on Van Halen's "Jump" and came across this in an old column:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1bbZNPlZE

Christgau reviewed all three of their albums, so they can't be obscure--somehow I missed them. "Bedroom" is my faovurite from the first two albums. Punk-pop from the '90s sung by women is basically the pinnacle of guitar-based rock.

I can’t believe I never saw this video. Awesome tune and the video is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobIboK_z34

Stuff - Signed Sealed Delivered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V-DguG1RiI

^Been on a Cornell Dupree kick. This is his fusion band in the mid 70s with Steve Gadd, Richard Tee, and Eric Gale … Recent discovery. Stuff is a google proof band name so got lucky to even find it

On fire!

Christgau reviewed all three of their albums, so they can't be obscure--somehow I missed them. "Bedroom" is my faovurite from the first two albums. Punk-pop from the '90s sung by women is basically the pinnacle of guitar-based rock.

Biased because I saw them back in the day, but love this band. If you haven't, definitely check out The Reputation, Elizabeth Elmore's next band after Sarge.

Will do, thanks--I also want to hear Sarge's third album.

Stuff - Signed Sealed Delivered

📹

I watched a low-budget doco about Love and Arthur Lee a while back - my knowledge of their catalogue went as far as the self-title, Da Capo and Forever Changes. But the doco finished with a track from a couple of years later, "Gather Round", which rocketed to the top of my favourite Love songs within about 30 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIRAAabaIbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN1aysdCkOU

First heard this in June...this riff kills me, I haven't heard anything quite like it before. From 1969.

I love this thread

That Sarge tune is very good. Never heard them before. Reminded me of Mission of Burma

Happy Halloween!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omCy0JkaUz4

Los Dug Dug's - Yo no sé (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8065mmshxjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3egxXu64bI

nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA3BkE784aI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc6dDJ2NB8Y

Raised on Floyd and the Dead, I didn't start listening to the Beatles or the Stones until I was in my twenties. I fell for the Beatles but the Stones didn't click. I liked reading the descriptions people would write of the slow ones (Moonlight Mile etc) but the reserves of beauty that other people found in them didn't seem open to me.

This week I heard a Morio Agata song which is exactly what I *hoped* those Stones ballads would sound like, based on the descriptions.

Agata has made about fifty albums (one of them produced by Hosono, another two with Hosono on bass), and the twelve I've tried so far are brilliant.

One of the only ILX references to Agata is about an album I haven't heard yet, the poster comparing it to Miharu Koshi's Boy Soprano.

This particular song is from1985, somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APYNTe5HklE

Dave Berry, "Don't Give Me No Lip Child", 1964.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxnppry63v0

Many xp's to Michael B - I I played The Enfields on my radio show last night - thanks for the recommendation!

Somehow I'd managed to never hear the Bee Gees' "Nights on Broadway" before today. Anyway I'm sure you all know it backward but here's the lads playing it on the Midnight Special, ripping stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ9yMXgNvQ

Stumbled across this while digging into Millennium related stuff - hot guitar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adFyP7889w4

Ooh, that's going on next week's show!

This one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1TBss1hW0

I'd never heard them (or even heard of them) till today. Canadian, from B.C.--maybe I'm not checking correctly, but they seem to be a different band than the one that has its own thread here. If I'm wrong, I should have posted there. 2017 isn't exactly old, but don't know where else to put this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WlLGOw3Cws

On a mix-CD my friend made for me, same friend who included a Bobby Fuller song on a mix-CD a few months ago, leading to the terribly disrespectful ad another friend and I created for Kamala Harris. So be forewarned, this could lead anywhere.

afaict it is in fact the same band as the one that this thread is about: The Courtneys

Damn...I was cross-referencing, and there seemed to be two different Courtneys involved. Common sense should have prevailed.

Nowhere in the lyrics--reading that it's for a friend who moved away--but my guess is that somewhere in there, even subconsciously, they're paying tribute to Husker Du and the Replacements.

Unfinished Sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGAXNEM5mck

Broken Family Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCpVoqviwE

John B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQI-Rp5tqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VstBuin9V6Q

(1981 or '82.)

whoa dolly mixture rules. thx clem!

as for me, here's alice cohen doing some post-disco from 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRFpiFZr5A

"backwards"

her bio says she was a band member and bedroom recordist going back to the 80s, so who knows how old the song actually is. pretty fun stuff.

and here's one that's been in rotation since last summer. very good vibe wine drunk jams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB0DVivOetA

keel her ― "with me tonight" (2012)

Austin, Alice Soto was in The Vels in the 80s, if you’re not familiar. I know they have some fans on ilm. I love this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BkoOyqlmQ

Austin -- this is my other favourite song on the Dolly Mixture compilation (four vinyl copies on Discogs, $350 each):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXTIOd_XJM

A friend of mine says it's impossible to write a bad song about waiting by the phone; a different friend says it's impossible to write a bad song called (or with a lyric that advises) "Don't Look Back." I'm adding a third rule to that: it's impossible to write a bad song about going nowhere.

Wow! From 1964!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3JmXzV9B2E
The Pink People - Psychologically Unsound