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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:18 pm | |
| The title track proper.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:18 pm | |
| Babyface is back. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:19 pm | |
| This is most wonderful.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:19 pm | |
| He does know he's nicked the tune, doesn't he? _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:20 pm | |
| Glen Campbell did an absurdly brassy version of this in 1979.
It was a fairly big hit in the US.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:21 pm | |
| This one's dragging on. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:22 pm | |
| Track 7 - You Will Not Lose. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:22 pm | |
| - The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
- He does know he's nicked the tune, doesn't he?
I imagine so yes. Where the original melody, preceding "Baby Face" from the '20s, is from is probably a matter of musicological record.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:23 pm | |
| This is triffic.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:24 pm | |
| I find that high, reedy saxamaphone sound quite beguiling and aetherial.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:24 pm | |
| Very reminiscent of David Essex's Imperial Wizard in places. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:25 pm | |
| There's some completely glorious piano action during the coda of this track.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:25 pm | |
| Glorious glissandos. 
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:25 pm | |
| Track 8 - What Do You Want the Girl to Do? _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:26 pm | |
| What Do You Want the Girl to Do... The legend. 
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:26 pm | |
| String synth.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:27 pm | |
| I grew up listening to the Bonnie Raitt version of this.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:28 pm | |
| Crushingly beautiful downward key change.
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:29 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975) Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:29 pm | |
| Track 9 - When the Party's Over. _________________ |
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