Rating: *** (3 stars)
Title: The 13th Song
Company: Golden Eagle
Catalog: LP 101
Year: 1965
Grade (cover/record): NM/NM
Comments: Still in shrink wrap
Available: 1
Price: $50.00
Produced by Charlie Booth (the liner notes claim the album was recorded live), "The 13th Song" offered up a classic example of mid-'60s garage rock. An enthusiastic, if occasionally sloppy mixture of well and lesser known covers, the results were surprisingly engaging. While the entire album was worth hearing, the band showed particular skill at blue-eyed soul covers (Otis Redding's "Mr. Pitiful" and (complete with goofy spoken interlude), their cover of Wilson Pickett's "I Found a Love"). Other highlights included a cover of Ed Cobb's "Good Guys Don't Wear White", "Muscle Bound Man", an organ propelled "Little Latin Lipe Lu" and their "Devil with the Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" medley. (Always loved the high price artwork. Nice matching silk shirts guys.) Believe it or not, it's an album we've burned on CD and play time after time ...
"The 13th Song" track listing:
1.) Come Back Home (Charly Romans) -
2.) Good Guys Don't Wear White (Ed Cobb) -
3.) Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Eddie Holland - Norman Whitefield) -
4.) Good Loving (Clark - Resnick) -
5.) Soul and Inspiration (Barry Mann - Cynthia Weil) -
6.) Muscle Bound Man (unknown) -
7.) I Found a Love (Wilson Pickett - W. Schofield - R. West) -
8.) Mr. Pitiful (Steve Cropper - Otis Redding) -
9.) Devil with the Blue Dress & Good Golly Miss Molly (unlisted) -
10.) Little Latin Lipe Lu (Bill Medley) -
11,) Sam's Place (R. Simpson - Buck Owens) -
12.) Joley Blond (Buddy Dee) -
13.) - ? - (E. McDaniel) -