The Virtual DJ

It's funny how some songs are so popular and well-known at dances now and were probably rarely played when they came out. That would naturally go for most of the garage records mentioned in this thread, but I'm thinking specifically of something like Don Gardner's "My Baby Likes To Boogaloo". No complaints on that one!
 
Toddophonic said:
It's funny how some songs are so popular and well-known at dances now and were probably rarely played when they came out. That would naturally go for most of the garage records mentioned in this thread, but I'm thinking specifically of something like Don Gardner's "My Baby Likes To Boogaloo". No complaints on that one!
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Most people, all they want to hear are the hits of the day. then and now.
 
I can't stand that Don Gardner record. I was sick of it 10 years ago before I even attended a programmed dance night. I know it's a "Floor Filler" but as something to listen to, its crap.
It's a bit weird in that I am the oldest person by 5+ years in the Seattle 'scene' that includes 4-5 different soul/funk/modern/R&B dance nights. So, that means that I am the only person who can claim to have heard late 60s/early 70s standards like "25 Miles". "I Can't Get Next To You", "Time"/ "Running Back And Forth", "Love Makes A Woman", "If This Is Love", "In a Moment"/"I'm Gonna Love You" and numerous others that get played at dance nights as hits on the radio. I even remember "The Snake" as a hit. It gives a different perspective especially when much younger people are talking about them as its some kind of fresh discovery.
I played records for a garage night - no dance, just something at a recently opened Seattle club that's trying to establish more niche DJ nights - last Friday and when I played "99th Floor" I remembered that one of my pals who I worked with at my college radio station told me that he used to hear that record on the radio when it was a hit - he lived in the Houston area - like it was almost dumb that someone would consider it a classic garage semi obscurity.
 
My DJ sets tend to be a mix of everything from soul to rnb to garage. I like to use records that cover ground between different genres, transition between sounds and help build a set. These are a few of My favorite "garage" records for that. I use the word "garage" lightly as most these tracks aren't garage in the BFTG/TBM scene of the work. Most of the time when playing records out it is hard to drop the wild fuzzed out monsters without building up to a point in the set where it is possible. From what Ive seen a lot of the big BFTG and G45 Legends sound wild but don't work well on the dance floor. Anyways heres my list:

The Wigpoppers - Yo-Yo
Four Satins - Feather Walk
James Spencer - Daddy's Little Angel
Steve and the Holidays - German Measles
Ronnie Cook - Super Fine Girl
Jim Jones - Baby (Better Get On Home)
Donnie Sanders - Shing-A-Ling Baby
The Knightsmen - If I Told You
Uranus and The Five Moons - Your Groove
Leon Harmon - I Wanna Be Loved
Savoy's - Work It Out
Jack Wood - Born To Wander
The Citations - Phantom Freighter
Bent And The Spectres - Oh Darlin'
The Go-Rillas - (I Go) King Kong
The Door Nobs - Hi-Fi Baby
 
One last playlist for me, this was a real dance night from last Friday, I was a guest DJ at the DUG dance party 7th anniversary here in Seattle. I played mostly early funk and some soul and some whatever. Not really any garage in here but a lot of raw and crude dance stompers. These are all original 45s....

Greater Experience - Don't Forget To Remember
Lil Lavair and Fabulous Jades - Cold Heat
J Young / B Hill - It's Got Soul
Young Ideas - Losing You Has Made Me A Winner
Henry Peters and Imperials - Master Groove Pt 1
Blues Soul - Getting The Corners
Chris Columbus and Swingin' Gaites - Tighten Up '70
El Corols - Chick Chick (Tiny label version)
Delrays Inc - Destination Unknown
Purple Mundi - Stop Hurting Me
Fabulous Originals - It Ain't Fair, But It's Fun Pt. 1
Soul Dynamics - Stay In The Groove
Soul Sounds Unl. - The Word Called Love
Foreign Blue Renaisance - Finding You
 
I paid once 20 € to go to a mod party. They played Beggin' by Timebox.

Keep the faith in what? In that maybe someday it will be fun?
 
It has been a while but I'd pack all of these in my 45 box. Nothing rare all pretty reasonably cheap stompers that even non-garage fans will dance. Last time, one guy said something like "those records were all so familiar but I had never heard any of them before. What is that music?"

Night-time - The Strangeloves
Marlboro Country - Mark Markham and The Jesters
The Hump - The Invictas
Miss Galore - King George and the Checkmates
Monkey Man - Baby Huey and the Babysitters
Marianna - Cindy Sza'vee The Rain
Love In - Noah's Ark
Gotta Help Me - The Agents
You Gonna Be Mine - The 4 of Us
The Gants - (You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings
Ball and Chain - The Great Scots
Tell Her One More Time - The Reasons Why
Soulin - The Leather Boy
You Ain't Tuff - Lindy Blaskey and the Lavells
In The Cover of Night - Don and Jerry with the Fugitives
Mini Skirt Blues - The Flower Children
You Can Make It - Richard and the Young Lions

Night-time will get most any dance floor movin'.
 
Not sure what kind of event this was, but "Beggin'" is a genuine Mod record that was part of the scene in the the 1960s UK which as far as I am concerned is the only real Mod anything. If they were trying to be authentic, it was a good choice, even if you or others don't like it.

analolaygwani said:
I paid once 20 € to go to a mod party. They played Beggin' by Timebox.

Keep the faith in what? In that maybe someday it will be fun?
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buckeyebeat said:
Not sure what kind of event this was, but "Beggin'" is a genuine Mod record that was part of the scene in the the 1960s UK which as far as I am concerned is the only real Mod anything. If they were trying to be authentic, it was a good choice, even if you or others don't like it.
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well the mod days were dying if not dead in 1968 when Beggin was released. also mod are supposed to be modernists, so they should play modern stuff instead of being nostalgic. Beggin' is a great dance tune though.
 
Laurence, depending on your age and your definition of what it entailed, the demise of 'Mod' ocurred anywhere between Spring 1964 and Summer 1967. As a mass movement popularised by the Carnaby Street stereotype, it was definitely killed by the Summer of Love. Ironically, many of the shallow souls who were kicking lumps out of one another on the beaches in 1964 had morphed into flower children three years later. Remember, we're talking about teenagers who have, in the main, notoriously short cultural attention spans.
 
jerry dickens said:
depending on your age and your definition of what it entailed, the demise of 'Mod' ocurred anywhere between Spring 1964 and Summer 1967..
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exactly what I'm saying. skinheads were about to raise the mod flag high again before the end of the decade (there's an interesting piece in a 1969 NME that describe the new skinhead trouble makers but still call them mods rather than s.h.s).
 
Laurent Bigot said:
exactly what I'm saying. skinheads were about to raise the mod flag high again before the end of the decade (there's an interesting piece in a 1969 NME that describe the new skinhead trouble makers but still call them mods rather than s.h.s).
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While it is true in some ways that the skinheads did steal and bowdlerise some of the clothes from the backs of their predecessors (Harrington jackets, Levis with small turn-ups, cropped hair, Ben Sherman shirts, braces, etc), the persons they stole from were the herd mods who bought ready mades from chain stores. Nothing wrong in any of that, of course, but some of us had more intense ideas of what Mod was about in those days and, indeed what it continues to mean to us today.

What would really interest me about the quoted NME article is the pedigree of the writer. Music journalists in those days tended to be educated people whose natural affinity would have been with like-minded individuals who were in the main responsible and respectable (although they may have deemed themselves otherwise by virtue of tolerating black people and smoking the odd joint - think Nick Kent). These innocent souls would have needed a quick change of underwear had they spent any time with a dedicated skinhead gang.
 
buckeyebeat said:
One last playlist for me, this was a real dance night from last Friday, I was a guest DJ at the DUG dance party 7th anniversary here in Seattle. I played mostly early funk and some soul and some whatever. Not really any garage in here but a lot of raw and crude dance stompers. These are all original 45s....

Greater Experience - Don't Forget To Remember
Lil Lavair and Fabulous Jades - Cold Heat
J Young / B Hill - It's Got Soul
Young Ideas - Losing You Has Made Me A Winner
Henry Peters and Imperials - Master Groove Pt 1
Blues Soul - Getting The Corners
Chris Columbus and Swingin' Gaites - Tighten Up '70
El Corols - Chick Chick (Tiny label version)
Delrays Inc - Destination Unknown
Purple Mundi - Stop Hurting Me
Fabulous Originals - It Ain't Fair, But It's Fun Pt. 1
Soul Dynamics - Stay In The Groove
Soul Sounds Unl. - The Word Called Love
Foreign Blue Renaisance - Finding You
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I have a recording of this from that night.. I recorded the back room all night. Prolly the best section of the whole recording.. I can get you a copy if you want.
 
All of your list got played at Dig Deeper George, many of yours Mark and Mike, and plenty you wouldn't hear anywhere else, even though officially a soul night we'd have fun adding garage stuff into mess the dancers up like Wild Angel - James Bond and the Agents, Page Boys on Ruff (have just put this on a soul mix have going live on JesterWild this week), Ronnie and the Casuals on Ronn-ee, Dogs on Treasure, Peabody Hermitage on Tennalaga, etc etc, along with a nice stack of unreleased acetates etc, and of course Don Gardner was our first live act doing the likes of My baby likes to boogaloo and Cheatin' Kind 7 years ago now, like all good music it was even better live!
 
The loosely applicable portion of a set that I did recently:

The Roulettes – Junk (2:38)
The Who - Out In The Street (2:30)
Small Faces – Almost Grown (3:04)
Pretty Things – Rosalyn (2:23)
Birds – Leaving Here (2:40)
Creation-How Does It Feel To Feel (2:59)
Moving Sidewalks – I Wanna Hold Your Hand (3:29)
Frank Davis – Grand Candy Young Sweet (2:00)
Lavender Hour – So Sophisticated (2:07)
Blox – hanging out (2:29)
The Wig – Crackin up (2:18)
Wanderers – Higher Education (2:34)
Bourbons-Of Old Aproximately (2:30)
Six Pents – She Lied (2:10)
Zakary Thaks – Bad Girl (2:04)
Exotics – I Was Alone (1:58)
Lemon Fog – Echoes Of Time (2:47)
Mother Sturtcman’s Jams & Jellies – For Your Love (2:43)
Apple Glass Cyndrome – Someday (3:45)
Weird St Carnival – Inner Truth(2:08)
Seeds – Can’t Seem To Make You Mine (2:31)
Seger – East Side Story (2:25)
MC5 – I Can Only Give You Everything (2:36)
Stooges – 1970 (3:21)
New York Dolls – Trash (3:08)

Plastic Ono Band – Move On Fast (3:40)
 
pomonkey said:
ps NorthEastBeast suspect you may be interested in the studio acetate of the Poets - Wooden Spoon I have tucked away...
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I sure would.

Saw them play a few years back. They were bloody brilliant. Sadly, George passed away not long after. What a band and what a story behind them.
 
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