Neil Young & The Bluenotes, This Note’s For You, 1988 on Reprise
An unusual entry for Neil Young, to be sure, but one of my favorite Neil Young albums post-1980. Later credited just to Neil Young when Harold Melvin (of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes) threatened legal action.
The video for the title track was in heavy rotation on MTV, mocking various kinds of celebrity endorsements. There’s also a live album (Bluenote Café) attributed to Neil Young and Bluenote Café, presumably to avoid the legal issues.
My copy—via A-1 Records in New York City—is a 1988 Speciality Records pressing with the original inner liner, in great shape.
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
🎵 If You Don't Know Me By Now
https://maryderekjane.bandcamp.com/track/harold-melvin-the-blue-notes-if-you-dont-know-me-by-now
from the album Circle Sir
Very Urgent is an album by the Chris McGregor Group, led by pianist McGregor, and featuring saxophonists Ronnie Beer and Dudu Pukwana, trumpeter Mongezi Feza, bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo. It was recorded at Sound Techniques in London, and was released on LP by Polydor Records in 1968. In 2008, the album was reissued on CD by Fledg'ling Records. With the exception of Beer, all of the musicians were members of The Blue Notes, and the album can be viewed as the group's debut studio recording.
In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham wrote: "In its unrelenting collective intensity, this set might surprise a few John Zorn admirers in being this far out, this far back... This was a world-class free-band, and it's great to have the evidence back." - Wikipedia
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Larry & the Blue Notes:
🎵 In and Out
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/track/larry-the-blue-notes-in-and-out
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
🎵 If You Don’t Know Me by Now
https://maryderekjane.bandcamp.com/track/harold-melvin-the-blue-notes-if-you-dont-know-me-by-now
from the album Circle Sir
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
🎵 The Love I Lost
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Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes:
🎵 The Love I Lost
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from the album The Mike Maurro Peak Hour Remixes
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
🎵 Wake Up Everybody
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kQ2ZEav7TgUoLSLrm7h8S
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