It's talcum time again! Good Time Records, the same outfit who re-issued
Charles Mitchell's 1973 single posted yesterday, have also remastered and
reissued a Northern Soul track covered by a few artists which has a
backing track that has also been used on several other
recordings.
Ike & Tina Turner
were the first to record the song, credited to Frank Wilson, in 1965 on
Loma. The following year another two versions materialised. Darrell Banks cut a version on Revilot, now credited to Marc Gordon in addition to
Wilson, and another version on Loma, from Larry Laster called "Go For Yourself" which used the same backing track but different lyrics credited to Leon
Sylvers.
The following year (1967) Ty Karim
released "Lighten Up Baby" which used the backing again on Car-A-Mel, but with new lyrics
attributed to her husband Kent Harris.
Larry Atkins
released another version of the same song credited to Harris on Highland in 1968.
Also in 1968, Herb (Sadler) & Doris (Dorsey)
did "Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You" on Hip and white Canadian group The Mid Knights
also recorded a more garage version of it on Warner Bros.
If you want to listen to the versions above, they were featured in a write
up on
Ty Karim
posted last year.
There's a couple of more versions I omitted last time. One by another white Canadian
artist Natalie Baron in 1967 (which I've not heard but would guess it's a pop version?). The other is a pop version by a group called
West
who released it on their 1969 album "Bridges". So that's nine versions so
far! There may well be others I've omitted, if you know of one let me
know.
Live In Texas
(or is it - doesn't sound very live to me, it sounds very similar to the studio version apart from the 'canned' applause at the start!)
| Rating: | 9 |
| Genre/Style: | Northern Soul |
| Format: | Single / Reissue |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Self Released |
| Cat No: | None |
| Year: | 23/07/2021 |
| Key/BPM: | 9B/136 |
| Value: | £1 |
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