Mal ,'Serenity'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I don't have the record. Only the invoice for recording it at the studio. I can't find a discography for singles, tho I found a great one for LPs.
The thing is signed by Steve Cropper, and I did find singles that match up to about the right time, but the numbers are off.
The thing is signed by Steve Cropper
Woo hoo! Calling eBay!
Are these masters for Stax?
That's the client. Ok...
They're from Sam Phillips recording studio (signed by Moore too)for 2 45 masters
# is V-1120, and nothing is coming up on Google.
That's the client. Ok... They're from Sam Phillips recording studio (signed by Moore too)for 2 45 masters
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They're from Sam Phillips recording studio (signed by Moore too)for 2 45 masters
Scotty Moore?
# is V-1120, and nothing is coming up on Google.
Have you googled by artist name and song title?
Theres no name or title listed just descripton and #, well and the rate.
Yeah, Scotty Moore.
I have to go to lunch. I can't work on this thing all day. You'd think somebody would have had a record though.
Scotty Moore & Steve Cropper recorded together? My first thought was Sam Moore of Sam and Dave. Scotty Moore, huh? Is this pre-Stax? Now that I think about it, though... Steve Cropper... Volt, the Stax subsidiary?
Jesus, it could be "Green Onions"! (No label number, but it gives us the Cropper/Moore/Phillips nexus.) Pertinent part:
The next morning Steve Cropper took the song down to the nearby Sun Studios on Union Avenue....former home to Elvis’s early recordings.
There he asked former Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore to dub him off a quick copy. Scotty’s exact words were “Wow that’s funky!” and Steve obviously thought so too because he immediately raced down to local radio station WLOK. The DJ on air there immediately played it......four times in a row.
The phones went mad with people asking about this great dance track they’d just heard. Steve Cropper called producer Jim Stewart who still worked at the local bank and told him to get down there as quick as he could since it looked like they had a big potential hit on their hands.
One problem remained however...it still had no title. The band’s original bassist Lewis Steinberg came swiftly to the rescue. If the song’s funky, he reckoned then the title should be funky too. Now it’s important to note the word “funky” meant at the time “stinky” or “dirty” so reasoned Steinberg to call it green onions cause that was the stinkiest thing he knew!
Yeah, Scotty Moore.
For those of you discinclined to Google, this is Elvis' guitarist and one of the most influential in rock history. Though probably not as influential as Steve Cropper. Anyway, these are legendary names.
Now it’s important to note the word “funky” meant at the time “stinky” or “dirty” so reasoned Steinberg to call it green onions cause that was the stinkiest thing he knew!
It still means stanky and dirty. Though it's a pretty specific smell. Earthy though, so I can see why they'd go with "Green Onions."
Moore's the engineer, don't know if he was on the recording.
The date's December of 63 and not 62.
I have 2 singles from Volt around that time that I think could be they, but again, the numbers. AAAARRRRRRGH!
I give up.