Walkin

Since I posted a collection of struttin songs, I thought I would follow up with Walkin’ tunes. So here is the “Walking Collection.” This is a large collection of songs featuring some variation of the word “Walk” in the title. It spans country, blues, rock, R&B, Soul, Jazz and Gospel…so basically everything. Included artists are Johnny Cash (obviously), Rufus Thomas, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Sprinsgteen, DIon Warwick, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Grant Green, Lou Reed (with and without the velvets), Jackie Mitoo and plenty more. Enjoy.

THE WALKIN COLLECTION

Reggaefied

Almost anyone who is familiar with reggae knows that long history of reggae cover tunes. Often songs that were R&B hits in the USA became hits as Reggae tunes later on. In large part this is because of the Island of Jamaica’s proximity to the USA, and because back when radio was predominantly AM, signals from places like New Orleans and Miami could reach. So, here I give just a few of these tunes.

Perhaps the coolest song of the bunch is Byron Lee’s version of Green Onions. I rarely like anything by Lee, and it is hard to top the MG’s orginal, but this is pretty awesome. There are multiple major Motown hits here. The first is the old Isley brothers tune “This Old Heart of Mine.” I include the original and also a version by Delroy Wilson. While some people may remember the Rod Stewart remake from the 80’s, I spared you all that. I also include the Stevie Wonder classic “My Cherie Amour” as performed by Barry Biggs. Philly is represented by “If You Don’t Know Me By Know” as performed by Junior Byles and also a Simply Red version. This song must have been recorded a 100 times and so I picked a couple of fun versions. Finally, I have included three versions of “This magic moment”; the original by the Drifters, one by the Platters that is associated with Dirty Dancing, and a reggae versions by Eric Morris.

ReggaeVers