I do my best not to post songs I know have been recently offered by others. You might be surprised how often I have to move a 45 to the back of the stack for that reason.
Anyway, I think it's been at least 18 months since this was posted over at Jukeboxmafia, which seems plenty long to wait. Actually took me awhile to get myself a copy, not because it's especially hard to find, but because to my way of thinking it's a $5 record [more or less a generic term] and everyone seemed to want too much money.....even if it was just a couple of dollars more than I thought it should be. I get stubborn like that sometimes.
I'm a huge fan of Raymond Lewis records. They're like the flip-side of Lee Dorsey's output. Allen Toussaint's touch is literally all over them, with lots of tasty piano work by Mr. T and usually at least one songwriting credit for Naomi Neville, his nom de wax. I can't imagine they didn't do well in New Orleans.
As far as I know there are only four singles by Raymond Lewis. Here's his first one, from 1961.
Hope y'all enjoy...it's one of my faves.
Outta Sight! This one's in the running for my new favorite song of the week. Thanks!
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