Slim Harpo LIVE!

via oldies.com

David Kearns and Joe Drago recorded Slim playing live at the Sage Avenue Armory back in 1961.  The sound isn't the greatest, but it's all we've got.  Here's a sample.

Slim Harpo Live - "I'm A King Bee", "Got Love If You Want It" and "When The Saints Go Marching In"

Junco Partner

via Billboard.com

Tune it to Music To Spazz By tonight, when Dave the Spazz welcomes Lily Keber, the director of Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius Of James Booker.  Catch a screening Sunday or Monday as part of the Sound + Vision festival at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center then head to the Great Jones where WFMU DJ, Matt Fiveash will be serving up unlimited Abitas.  Also, don't miss Charles Bradley: Soul Of America, the story of Daptone's latest star, which opens the festival Friday at 6:30.  (Also streaming via itunes and highly recommended).



  

That's Alright Baby (Don't Start Cryin' Now)

Don't Start Cryin' Now (1961)

Slim Harpo

Blues Hangover (1960)
b/w
What A Dream 

Are In-Laws Really Outlaws?

1 Art Linkletter: mother-in-law joke

2 Calvin Arnold: Mama-In-Law

3 Jimmy Witherspoon: Don't Ever Move A Woman Into Your House

4 Champion Jack Dupree: Mother-In-Law Blues

5 Bing Crosby: The Whistler's Mother In Law

6 B.K. Anderson: Mother-In-Law Cha Cha

7 Ernie K-Doe: Mother In Law (incorp. alt. & studio chatter)

8 Gary Paxton: Mother-In-Law

9 Ernie K-Doe: My Mother-In-Law (Is In My Hair Again)

10 Bo Diddley: Husband-In-Law

11 Jim Nesbitt: Husbands-In-Law

12 Charlie Rich: Hawg Jaw

13 Champion Jack Dupree wtih Mr. Bear: Lonely Road Blues

14 Jamo Thomas: Jive Mother-In-Law

15 Little Junior Parker: Mother-In-Law Blues

16 Kursaal Flyers: Monster-In-Law

17 Kui Lee: Ain't No Big Thing

18 Lee Perry: Mother-In-Law

19 Lucas & Mike Cotton Sound: Mother-In-Law

20 Jim Nesbitt: Mother-In-Law

21 Chiquita: Father-In-Law

22 James Spencer: In-Law Trouble

23 Marion Harris: Brother-In-Law Dan

24 Paul Peek: Brother-In-Law (He's A Moocher)

25 Peetie Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law

26 The Nashville Teens: Devil-In-Law

27 The Blossoms: Son-In-Law

28 Louise Brown: Son-In-Law

29 The Satintones: You'd Make A Fine Son-In-Law

30 Edward Gates White: Mother-In-Law

31 Mack McQuire: Mother-In-Law Blues

32 Rod Bernard: My Old Mother-In-Law

33 The Allen Brothers: Mother-In-Law Blues

34 The Misfits: My Mother-In-Law

35 The Volumes: Oh My Mother-In-Law

36 Clarence Carter: Mother-In-Law

37 The Brochures: My In-Laws Are Outlaws

38 Sir Douglas Quintet: Are In-Laws Really Outlaws?

ARE IN-LAWS REALLY OUTLAWS?

Mondo Topless Radio Extravaganza

Thanks to my pal Phil for sending along these fantastic screen captures of radio shots from Russ Meyer's Mondo Topless. 

James Moore aka Slim Harpo

1924-1970

Slim's first record was produced by Jay Miller for Ernie Young's Excello Records out of Nashville.  Jay claims it was his idea for Slim to have a gimmicky, nasal sounding voice.  "I'm A King Bee" b/w "I Got Love If You Want It" is a good place to start.

I'm A King Bee (1957)

I Got Love If You Want It

July Is Slim Harpo Month

Freedom Wins Again

Thanks to Jim Blanchard for sharing this patriotic themed comp!

Get it!

Adiós, Black Belt Jones

From FUNKY CRIMES: A radio spot for BLACK BELT JONES (R.I.P. Jim Kelly), plus "Get It" by Wilmer & the Dukes.

Get it, Jim...

You better open up your door...

Thanks, Debbie D, for asking me to sit in on Jerry Lee Lewis month. I had a blast! I'll leave you all with a bit of Star-Club madness:

The morning after Saturday night...