thread for old songs that you never heard til recentlybut which are far out fuckin great

more'n 40 years old & i never heard it til today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqqiHLEKPI

This is really good! Reminds me of Ian Dury a bit

I gather this was quite a hit at the time, but I had never heard "Here Comes the Judge" until a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0SGqN0Ndk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAqnM1PP5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUl1bqv4vY

Man, I will never forget hearing “Here Comes the Judge” for the first time, a true jaw-hitting-the-floor couldnt believe what i was hearing moment

Yes! Just happened to me.

I remember "Ring My Bell" being on the radio and my dad saying it was a song about sex and 9-year-old me was trying to figure out how/what.

re Here Comes The Judge, who was first??

https://www.discogs.com/release/1374986-Shorty-Long-Here-Comes-The-Judge

May 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc72r-gLwUs

I knew this answer song by Cliff Nobles (his follow-up to "The Horse"/"Love Is All Right") long before I knew the Shorty Long record it was answering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-I_ZAowys

The story I've read is that it was Pigmeat Markham's routine but others got it to record first. So when he eventually did, it was kind of getting respect for being the originator. But also it seems like a routine that probably had long roots. He'd been around for a while by then, he was in his 60s when the single hit.

This Tonight Show performance is great, Vaudeville funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohq9h6QIcHY

Recently discovered this one on a playlist of Randy Cozens' Mod 100: A Rockabilly dude goes Soulboi and unloads a banger...this occasionally get erroneously credited to Tommy James...Ronnie Spector covered it on one of her comeback albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9zCDwYTMQ

Mickey Lee Lane: "Hey Sah-Lo-Ney"

That's great.

One of my new (old) favorite things is Allen Toussaint's non-Lee Dorsey productions from the mid-'60s (Betty Harris, Sansu Records etc.). Arthur Conley later covered this in a last-ditch attempt to make that "Sweet Soul Music" lightning strike twice. Oddly enough, this original predates that song by a year or so! What Stax would have sounded like if it had been founded & based in New Orleans instead of Memphis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMTpkxEBAw

Warren Lee: "Star Revue"

Arthur Conley's version from 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7z9gd6tjM

1970 1969

"Again and again" by the bird and the bee.... Apparently 15 years went by and I never heard it until last Wednesday when it was on this radio station I follow. I've been playing it 'again and again' since!

I remember "Ring My Bell" being on the radio and my dad saying it was a song about sex and 9-year-old me was trying to figure out how/what.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra)

Lol this is pretty much my same experience, but instead of my dad it was an older cousin.

Some great songs in this thread. I will have to come back and propose something interesting when the next “eureka” moment comes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQBkKnUfriE

Last one I remember is Todd Rundgren - Healing pt. 1. Discovered it by watching the movie “the worst person in the world” a few months ago. I’ve played it a couple of times in social gatherings since then and it’s inevitable that someone asks what song it is. It has a very magical quality to it…. I should probably start listening to Todd Rundgren. I only know this song, the one on Almost Famous (it wouldn’t have made any difference) and I Saw the Light and they’re all great.

Yes, you should definitely listen to more Todd Rundgren!!!

I haven't heard so much but A Wizard/A True Star and Hermit of Mink Hollow were common listens when I was in grade school: you need to listen to more Rundgren.

I promise I will. I searched and ILM has made an artist poll on him so I’ll use that as a guide.

Heard this last night in a hotel bar of all places. Thought I'd heard every major '60s raver of this ilk. Due to ambient noise in the room I couldn't hear it with clarity and suspected it was a contemporary artist doing a pastiche-y kind of thing. This is from after Stevie Winwood had left the group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_T8Ue8pvIE

^ (Spencer Davis Group)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdw7oTAFSA

Does 1986 count as old? I'd never heard a note of Big Black's music until the other day. Bowled over by "Kerosene".

That Spencer Davis Group track is great.