Side 1
1. Hand Clappin'
2. Hard Times
3. Cloudburst
4. Walkin' With Mr Lee
5. Em-Bee
6. Ichi-Ban
Side 2
1. Back Street
2. Castle Rock
3. Blow Your Horn
4. Sting Ray
5. Honky Tonk
6. Hot Rod
Here’s something that differs from the usual Be Bop Wino
fare. It’s not quite the usual cool R&B / Jazz / Rock ‘n’ Roll that I like
to think is the staple diet of this august blog. The album title, the front
cover art, the track list, it all looks right and yet it’s kind of “off kilter.”
There’s positively lurid use of stereo separation as the tenor saxes of Bill
Ramal and big band veteran Georgie Auld tear through 12 honking sax instros but
the feeling I get from listening to this set is that it consists of R&B by
the numbers, or ersatz R&B.
“Screamin’ Saxes” was released in 1962. The sleeve notes
assure us that the sounds contained therein are “… big and driving and new;
this sound of the 60s.” In fact it’s a compilation of cover versions of 1950s
R&B honking sax juke box hits, plus 3 original compositions by Bill Ramal: “Em-Bee”,
“Ichi-Ban” and “Sting Ray.”
The cover versions are – “Hand Clappin’” and “Blow Your
Horn” both originally by Red Prysock, “Hard Times” by Noble Watts, “Cloudburst”
by “Claude Cloud and his Thunderclaps" (really the Leroy Kirkland band with Sam “The
Man” Taylor on tenor sax), Lee Allen’s “Walkin’ With Mr. Lee”, Eddie Chamblee’s
“Back Street”, “Castle Rock” by Johnny Hodges (Al Sears on tenor sax),” Honky
Tonk” by Bill Doggett (Clifford Scott on tenor sax) and “Hot Rod” by Hal Singer.
There’s an interesting post on Bill Ramal at the Ill
Folks blog. He was a saxophone player and arranger who worked with Del Shannon
and Johnny And The Hurricanes. He also arranged and composed novelty records with
Dickie Goodman. The Ill Folks post has a sound sample from Ramal’s 1963 LP “Young
America Dances To TV’s Greatest Themes.”
Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps.
Download from here:
Or here:
The password on the rapidshare download is greaseyspoon. There is
no password on the mediafire download.
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