Monday, May 24, 2010

I don't wanna buy no wedding band...


I have no idea why I gave this record a listen. As far I know, I'd never heard the song before, never heard of Bobby Foster, and what little I do know about Souncot records should have led me to believe this is a country record.

It's not. It's a killer funk thang. Exactly the kind of record that requires I find other copies because I-will-wear-this-one-out. Count on it.


[update: I was looking around for more info on Bobby Foster and found an old ebay listing for an acetate of this record. It has a Sam Phillips recording studio label on it....but I'm pretty sure Sam Philips had sold his operation to Shelby Singleton by that time. If that's true, then the sides could have been cut in either Memphis or Nashville, but my gut feeling says Memphis all the way.]

[correction & update: One of the readers has correctly pointed out that Sam Phillips only sold the Sun label to Shelby Singleton, but kept control of his recording studio. Also, I've found out there are at least six other Bobby Foster singles around. Now I just need to find them.]

7 comments:

  1. Very cool .... no reflection on your upcoming nuptials, of course! ;-)

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  2. uhmmm right Holly...I mean, of course not.

    ana

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  3. Sam Phillips sold the Sun record label to Singleton in, I think, '69, but continued to operate the Sam Phillips Recording studio on Madison Ave. in Memphis. The studio is still in operation today.

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  5. Hey Kick, you are of course correct. Silly me, I never thought to check Wikipedia. What confused me was that for a time Phillips maintained a studio in Nashville. This I did not know, and thought it might point to Singleton.

    ana...

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  6. oops, I'm not being clear....the acetate i mentioned says, Sam Phillips Recording Studio of Nashville and Memphis. I thought the Nashville connection might be Singleton.

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  7. hey Ana just wanted to say thanks for all the good music you've posted,and also that all your links are working from 2011 down to this one / max

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