This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #EndingCredits. Here's what I came up with:

Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is? (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeSyb_ZEa8

Sandra Barry: The End of the Line (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy7gxheL98

Solomon Burke: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFawKuhQIpE

O.V. Wright: When You Took Your Love From Me (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXCAyjFc3E

The Impressions: This Must End (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wx1rNws1aM

#PeggyLee #SandraBarry #SolomonBurke #OVWright #Impressions #CurtisMayfield #JerryLeiber #MikeStoller #BertBerns #TonyHatch

This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #CelebrateBooksDay. Here are the first five songs that came into my mind:

Neil Sedaka: The Diary (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USNL5p2f4o

The Superbs: The Story Book of Love (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8epmwETju4

O.V. Wright: I Could Write A Book (About Heartaches) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOidw1LyydQ

Percy Wiggins: Book of Memories (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5S6xj5_8bw

Tages: I Read You Like an Open Book (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50CHHGW_FK8

#NeilSedaka #Superbs #OVWright #PercyWiggins #Tages

This week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #LetTheRiversFlow. Lots of great records to choose from - these are only some of my favorites:

Jerry Butler: Moon River (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlZ_83_seJc

Sammy Turner: Raincoat in the River (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDjxbQo6_4

Ketty Lester: River of Salt (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNtiOOjSIw

O.V.Wright: Everybody Knows (The River Song) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYFmv_mrsA

Roscoe Robinson: A Thousand Rivers (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZc4fM6hd24

#JerryButler #KettyLester #SammyTurner #OVWright #RoscoeRobinson #LetThisRiverFlow

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

O.V. Wright:
🎵 The Bottom Line

#OVWright

https://ovwright.bandcamp.com/album/the-bottom-line

Today's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #Children. Here are the first five songs that I came up with:

Don Covay & the Goodtimers: Daddy Loves Baby (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEQBBoedwA

O.V. Wright: He's My Son (Just The Same) (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrzO1GSHDE

Jackie DeShannon: Child Of Mine (1971, originally unreleased)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWXbddsfPE

Jean Wells: Broomstick Horse Cowboy (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DCkznPSTs

The Playmates: "A" My Name Is Alice (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Fv__e-olI

#music #doncovay #ovwright #jackiedeshannon #caroleking #jeanwells #playmates

This week’s #TuneTuesday theme is #IsThisEmo - songs expressing, or making you feel sad emotions. A few random tunes:

The Yardbirds: Still I'm Sad (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Cih1r2hEY

Betty Harris: What A Sad Feeling (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkhWCvQplg

Lee Lamont: The Crying Man (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVSPiNXa_U0

The Skyliners: Tell Me (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkW0omeRQY

O. V. Wright: Motherless Child (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUM0W1gjPs

#music #yardbirds #bettyharris #leelamont #skyliners #ovwright

The Overton Window

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1968-fea9-73c4-d9d094897914

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheHueyShow

O.V. Wright:
🎵 Let's Straighten It Out

#OVWright

https://ovwright.bandcamp.com/track/lets-straighten-it-out

https://open.spotify.com/track/12n47FuVsiUGug0xkiGkSc

Going through 1960s music journals at worldradiohistory.com, I came across this review by Penny Valentine, published in Disc & Music Echo (January 28, 1967).

I've had the 45 for quite a few years, and still play it every now and then:

Mattie Moultrie: That's How Strong My Love Is (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aKUx8w-7Ng

One of the very first recordings done for Richard Gottehrer's and Seymour Stein's Sire Productions, this impressive version of a soul classic was issued on the Columbia label, but didn't sell too many copies at the time.

While I do disagree with Valentine's judgement on the quality of Otis Redding's recorded output, I'm still partial to O.V.Wright's original version, which was his first secular recording (on Goldwax), and made it to #109 on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart in the fall of 1964.

Other memorable female versions were later recorded by Candi Staton and Laura Lee - both are excellent. But Mattie Moultrie's over-the-top reading is still something special.

#music #soulmusic #mattiemoultrie #pennyvalentine #otisredding #ovwright #candistaton #lauralee #deepsoul #richardgottehrer #seymourstein

This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #GreatOutdoors. Here are some of the songs that I came up with:

Johnny Horton: When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvJm2ROX_8

Young Jessie: Lonesome Desert (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3tOQ1_vpm0

Fess Parker: The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBO1fshbErk

Everly Brothers: Shady Grove (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQD45yk3-X0

O.V. Wright: Everybody Knows (The River Song) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvLHMFW6Akg

#music #johnnyhorton #youngjessie #flairs #fessparker #everlybrothers #ovwright