King Curtis Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

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King Curtis: Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

3-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 24-page book, 77 tracks. Playing time approx. 199 mns.

King Curtis was THE R&B sax player in the late '50s and early '60s. They'd cancel sessions if they couldn't get him. He made some highly regarded solo recordings too, and the rarest have always been the Capitol sides from the early '60s. There were some big hits, like Soul Twist and the classic Soul Serenade, and they're here of course, together with all the other singles, the four original LPs, and 16 previously unissued cuts. The roots of his justly acclaimed Atlantic LPs can be heard in songs like Memphis, Watermelon Man, Night Train, Something You Got, and in his Sam Cooke tributes.

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Interpret: King Curtis
Album titlle: Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode CI
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127156709
weight in Kg 1.2

Curtis, King - Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01	Beach Party	King Curtis
02	Beautiful Brown Eyes	King Curtis
03	Your Cheatin' Heart	King Curtis
04	Tennessee Waltz	King Curtis
05	Wagon Wheels	King Curtis
06	High Noon	King Curtis
07	Anytime	King Curtis
08	Home On The Range	King Curtis
09	Night Train To Memphis	King Curtis
10	I'm Movin' On	King Curtis
11	Raunchy	King Curtis
12	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	King Curtis
13	Walking The Floor Over You	King Curtis
14	Slow Drag	King Curtis
15	New Dance	King Curtis
16	Frisky	King Curtis
17	Alexander's Ragtime Band	King Curtis
18	Amorosa (Bossa Nova)	King Curtis
19	Strollin' Home	King Curtis
20	Mess Around	King Curtis
21	Sukiyaki	King Curtis
22	Summer Dream	King Curtis
23	Do The Monkey	King Curtis
24	Feel All Right	King Curtis
25	New Dance	King Curtis
26	Turn 'Em On (mono)	King Curtis

Curtis, King - Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01	Theme from 'Lillies Of The Field'(part 2)	King Curtis
02	Theme from 'Lillies Of The Field'(part 1)	King Curtis
03	Soul Serenade	King Curtis
04	Honky Tonk	King Curtis
05	Watermelon Man	King Curtis
06	Memphis	King Curtis
07	Soul Twist	King Curtis
08	Night Train	King Curtis
09	Tequila	King Curtis
10	Wiggle Wobble	King Curtis
11	One Mint Julep	King Curtis
12	Can't Sit Down	King Curtis
13	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	King Curtis
14	My Last Date	King Curtis
15	Hide Away	King Curtis
16	Harlem Nocturne	King Curtis
17	Java	King Curtis
18	Stranger On The Shore	King Curtis
19	Summer Dream	King Curtis
20	Melancholy Serenade	King Curtis
21	Tanya	King Curtis
22	Hung Over	King Curtis
23	Soul Twine (Chuck) (stereo)	King Curtis
24	Hung Over	King Curtis
25	Soul Twine (Chuck) (mono)	King Curtis
26	More Soul	King Curtis

Curtis, King - Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01	Sister Sadie	King Curtis
02	Something You've Got	King Curtis
03	Take These Chains From My Heart	King Curtis
04	Let It Be Me	King Curtis
05	Hung Over (re-make)	King Curtis
06	Misty (re-make)	King Curtis
07	Bill Bailey	King Curtis
08	Peter Gunn	King Curtis
09	Shake	King Curtis
10	Tennessee Waltz	King Curtis
11	Ain't That Good News	King Curtis
12	Twistin' The Night Away	King Curtis
13	Good Times	King Curtis
14	Send Me Some Lovin'	King Curtis
15	Bring It On Home To Me	King Curtis
16	A Change Is Gonna Come	King Curtis
17	You Send Me	King Curtis
18	Cupid	King Curtis
19	Having A Party	King Curtis
20	Chain Gang	King Curtis
21	The Prance	King Curtis
22	Something You've Got (overdub)	King Curtis
23	Moon River	King Curtis

King Curtis & The Noble Knights " Play that one called 'Soul Twist,'” sings... more

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"King Curtis"

King Curtis

& The Noble Knights

"Play that one called 'Soul Twist,'” sings Sam Cooke in Having A Party, underscoring the fact that this was a pretty big hit in 1962: #1 R&B and #17 pop. It was also the first record on Bobby Robinson's Enjoy label (the label on which Robinson claims to have released the first rap record by Grandmaster Flash, although this is the subject of dispute). Robinson was an African American entrepreneur who'd signed Gladys Knight, Lee Dorsey, Wilbert Harrison, and many others to his multitude of labels, including Fire and Fury. Enjoy Records was an imprint he started in 1962 with his brother, Danny, who co-produced this record.

King Curtis (Curtis Ousley) was born in Fort Worth on February 7, 1934, and was ten when he heard the sound that would change his life. "It was Louis Jordan," he told Mike Hennessey in 1971. "I heard him on the radio, and I told my mother that I wanted to play that instrument more than anything." Asked when he took up the sax, Curtis said May 12, 1945. Very soon, he developed his trademark staccato phrasing and was making $240 a week in the clubs—more than the principal at the school he was supposed to be attending. "I liked Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, and Sonny Stitt," Curtis said. "I also dug Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins for ballads, (Stan) Getz for facility, Charlie Parker for technique.” By the time Curtis went to New York to visit an uncle in 1952, he could play pretty, he could play tough, he could play jazz, and he could play R&B. He hired on with a package show and made his first recordings with Bob Kent in 1952 for a Prestige Records subsidiary. Soon after, he went back to Fort Worth to take up a music scholarship. Then Lionel Hampton came through town looking for a sax player.

Hamp disbanded in New York, and Curtis stayed. It wasn't long before he was called for session work. "I saw that the music was dividing," he told Mike Hennessey, "and I had the commercial business sense to realize that way-out jazz wasn't getting to the public." The first contractor to use Curtis regularly was Jesse Stone, who A&R'd sessions for Groove and Atlantic. "Around 1956, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and myself were doing all the tenor work," said Curtis. "He really initiated the style, and I learned a lot from him when we both played in the Alan Freed band. I was doing around sixteen record dates a week, and getting $41.25 for a three-hour session, but I could see if I kept on that way I'd burn myself out, so I made my minimum session price one hundred dollars, and still the work kept coming in, so I cut down to eight sessions a week." Most nights, Curtis played after hours at Small's Paradise. He made a few recordings under his own name, none of which amounted to anything. Most of his tunes were grooves or shouts, but he wrote (and played on) Buddy Holly's Reminiscing and later co-wrote Soul Serenade, which has an almost Ellingtonian lyricism.

Talking to Art Turco, Bobby Robinson remembered going to see Curtis at Small's Paradise. "I found out why he had never had a hit," he said. "What was wrong was that he was doing too much honking. Every record he would blow from beginning to end. I said, 'Listen, we're going to open this one with the guitar.' He had a fit." And so Soul Twist featured Billy Butler (the guitarist on Honky Tonk) and organist Paul Griffin, and after playing on more hits than he could count, King Curtis finally had a #1 R&B hit with his own name on it.

King Curtis Capitol Years 1962-1965 (3-CD)
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