S.J. Hoover
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One of the few tracks with Hal Blaine's backbeat I've, actually, always liked the stomping groove (as well as "Dixieland" middle-eight-part) to.
Compared to the way a track such as LADYFINGERS seems to drag on and, literally, sounds like a cat dying...the '68 reel to reel of W.C.&O.D. shuffles the playing order around so that Butterball follows it to close side 1. I think, this works much better than how the record is programmed; because: it's suddenly in a more prominent place and no longer seems like a foregone afterthought from (alternately) being relegated three-quarters down side 2.
Who was "Mike Henderson" (the writer of the song) and who were "The Bluebloods" (the name of a group Henderson, supposedly?, had)? Is there an original recording of Butterball by them?
I don't mind it at all being on W.C.&O.D. because: it's got a swinging, "happy-go-lucky"/uptempo sound (kinda like the way Five Minutes More on W.N.M.L.? becomes Herb's equivalent of a rocker) one just feels like crankin' up when it starts.
What my poor phone could only sum to mono without (excessively) overloading (but you'll get the gist)
Compared to the way a track such as LADYFINGERS seems to drag on and, literally, sounds like a cat dying...the '68 reel to reel of W.C.&O.D. shuffles the playing order around so that Butterball follows it to close side 1. I think, this works much better than how the record is programmed; because: it's suddenly in a more prominent place and no longer seems like a foregone afterthought from (alternately) being relegated three-quarters down side 2.
Who was "Mike Henderson" (the writer of the song) and who were "The Bluebloods" (the name of a group Henderson, supposedly?, had)? Is there an original recording of Butterball by them?
I don't mind it at all being on W.C.&O.D. because: it's got a swinging, "happy-go-lucky"/uptempo sound (kinda like the way Five Minutes More on W.N.M.L.? becomes Herb's equivalent of a rocker) one just feels like crankin' up when it starts.
What my poor phone could only sum to mono without (excessively) overloading (but you'll get the gist)