tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post4315126571140719700..comments2024-02-17T08:38:35.239+02:00Comments on White Trash Soul: Otis Redding & the Pinetoppers - "Shout Bamalama" W/ "Fat Gal" (Orbit & Confederate, 1960-61)Mihaleezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09620496328120500688noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-72111645340981555292012-10-12T08:14:04.853+03:002012-10-12T08:14:04.853+03:00i WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS RECORDED AT the University...i WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS RECORDED AT the University of GA. RDW Prod.Dennis Wheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520622870243239164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-54213345657246270422012-01-30T00:06:06.057+02:002012-01-30T00:06:06.057+02:00BTW, here it is again: http://www.sendspace.com/fi...BTW, here it is again: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qrhqkuMihaleezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09620496328120500688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-90613460923617021882012-01-30T00:01:18.148+02:002012-01-30T00:01:18.148+02:00Many thanks for all your efforts Jonathan!Many thanks for all your efforts Jonathan!Mihaleezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09620496328120500688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-3018509399224532732012-01-29T22:38:47.439+02:002012-01-29T22:38:47.439+02:00Correction: I was a little too snide in that last...Correction: I was a little too snide in that last post. The royalty check was for thirty dollars.Jonathan Gouldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-54411469046658096322012-01-28T16:58:54.343+02:002012-01-28T16:58:54.343+02:00While I'm at it: I wouldn't compare the Pi...While I'm at it: I wouldn't compare the Pinetoppers (who aren't playing on this record anyway) with the Upsetters. The Pinetoppers were a good bar band. The Upsetters were a sensation. As for the name of the label, the single was originally released as Confederate #135. A number of sympathetic black deejays took it upon themselves to inform the clueless Bobby Smith that no one was going to buy an R&B record with the Confederate flag on its label. (This was just a few years after the Georgia legislature had adopted the Confederate "battle flag" as the state flag of Georgia, making it an explicit symbol of defiant white supremacy.) So Bobby Smith reissued the single on a label he named Orbit. On either label, it barely sold. Three months after its release, Smith gave Otis a royalty check for something like five dollars and change. <br /><br />The Otis-as-driver myth doesn't refer to this record. Seven months after this record was made, Joe Galkin arranged for the Pinetoppers' flashy lead guitarist, Johnny Jenkins, to record an instrumental at Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T & The MGs. The plan (unbeknownst to Jenkins) was for Otis to drive Jenkins to Memphis and for Galkin to ask Stax owner Jim Stewart to give Otis a recording test. As it turned out, no one at Stax was at all impressed with Jenkins, the session ended early, and Otis was given a chance to sing "These Arms of Mine," which basically launched his career.Jonathan Gouldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-88928560097396248482012-01-28T01:23:54.426+02:002012-01-28T01:23:54.426+02:00The record was actually released on the Confederat...The record was actually released on the Confederate label in April 1962, not 1960 or 1961 as has often been reported. It was recorded in March 1962 in Athens, GA, in the studios of WGTV, the public television station affiliated with the University of Georgia. Otis was backed by members of Wayne Cochran's group, the Rockin' Capris. Somewhat incredibly, it doesn't seem to have occurred to Bobby Smith, the former Macon car salesman who started Confederate Records, that the name of the label might be offensive to African-Americans. Joe Galkin, the freelance record promotion man who was largely responsible for Otis being signed to Stax Records, once described "Shout Bamalama" as "the worst record I ever heard."<br /><br />For his part, Bobby Smith seems to have believed that Otis composed "Shout Bamalama" for this session. In fact, Otis had written a version of the song called "Gamma Lama" nearly two years before, and recorded it Los Angeles in the summer of 1960. If you really want to hear something, go to You Tube and check out "Gamma Lama." On it, he's backed up by the greatest studio band of the day: Earl Palmer on drums, Ernie Freeman on keyboards, Plas Johnson on sax, and Rene Hall on guitar. Otis sounds like himself (as well as Little Richard) on both versions, but the difference in the quality of the playing and recording is like night and day.Jonathan Gouldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-83879197127336381072011-11-23T19:39:25.427+02:002011-11-23T19:39:25.427+02:00links?links?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-64947425536173231362011-01-20T19:10:23.390+02:002011-01-20T19:10:23.390+02:00What a treat! Thanx, never woulda known.... I dig ...What a treat! Thanx, never woulda known.... I dig the Confederate label, what a gas........Timmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09572040880471629009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-57614297187777926812011-01-19T14:49:20.728+02:002011-01-19T14:49:20.728+02:00"How many chickens have I stole?""How many chickens have I stole?"Debbie Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749338355347132769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-62509621222998763332011-01-16T17:44:31.690+02:002011-01-16T17:44:31.690+02:00Really greatReally greatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-60187915730968967382011-01-09T22:50:56.048+02:002011-01-09T22:50:56.048+02:00yes, yes, yes!yes, yes, yes!Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17822820465535539404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-49382467714757599422011-01-08T17:55:05.071+02:002011-01-08T17:55:05.071+02:00Greatest song ever recorded. Oh my, yes.Greatest song ever recorded. Oh my, yes.Brian K Reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774223242173267278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1839521161056115317.post-26702754769888875212011-01-07T13:00:47.743+02:002011-01-07T13:00:47.743+02:00great write up! and great stuff. thanksgreat write up! and great stuff. thankschesternoreply@blogger.com