On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:01:27 +0000,
soulexpress@gmail.com (Dean)
wrote:
One of my latest thrift-acquisitions is the 1960 album, THE EXPLOSIVE
FREDDY CANNON! To my surprise and chagrin, it features a markedly
inferior re-recording of "Tallahassee Lassie" with a full (and
obtrusive) brass section.
"Tallahassee Lassie" version with brass section:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWqh9o4wWw
"Gussying up {making more fancy} only works if you have a good
singer. Freddy is not. He's a rocker. The hit version is so much
better."
IMHO, there wasn't a damned thing wrong with the 1959 single! Why did
they have to mess it up those unnecessary horns? Not to mention that
Cannon's performance on the remake is not nearly as good as the
original. I don't think he cared for the new arrangement either.
THE EXPLOSIVE! FREDDY CANNON [Swan] - 1960
01 - Boston (My Home Town)
02 - Kansas City
03 - Sweet Georgia Brown
04 - Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
05 - St. Louis Blues
06 - Indiana
07 - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
08 - Deep In The Heart Of Texas
09 - California, Here I Come
10 - Okefenokee
11 - Carolina In The Morning
12 - Tallahassee Lassie
Reading the promo on the back of the LP sleeve, the Swan label was
clearly trying to extend Cannon's popularity from teens to adults.
On sleeve: "{producers} Slay and Crewe have included a flock of
standards and evergreens"; "The program{/album} will revive nostalgic
memories for adult buyers"; "It's a perfect set for *light* listening
{my emphasis}".
And the LP sleeve made this misleading statement to please, or to
allay the fears of, Cannon's teen-minded fans: "younger buyers will
find the treatments of all the material exactly in line with their
own contemporary tastes."
on Discogs,
"Notes: The Explosive! Freddy Cannon was the only #1 album in the UK
for Freddy Cannon. It spent one week at #1 and was the first #1 album
in the UK of the 1960s."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Albums_Chart_number_ones_of_the_1960s#1960
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