Archie Bell & The Drells

Oh, oh, oh, darling, darling, darling.

for your dancing pleasure you just heard from archie bell and the drells doing here i go again on atlantic from 69 before that on columbia from 66 you had the spellbinders doing help me get myself back together again before that we had another parentheses song jackie wilson doing the actual version of your love keeps lifting me higher and higher on bronze but from 67 and we started off with bobby bland doing yum yum tree on the duke label from 1971.

So these next few songs that we're going to play for you, including the one we're going to close the show out with, are a grab bag of fun.

These are songs you're probably going to know, but you don't usually hear them played off the 45 RPM record.

Anyway, they came out and they had this thing.

She says, "You!" She's doing this kind of a hell fire and brimstone kind of a, um, strange Father Coughlin, and he goes, "Ephesians 52:3, 'He who dismurches the widow shall burn in fire.' From the book of Fellatio 1," and they go, "What are you talking about?" "He who besmite- smites the widow, and the widow in Jebediah 2 in Archie Bell and the Drells." And she...

And people are, "What are you talk-" And it went through, she probably Googled or G- ChatGPT every time the word widow was mentioned.

So that's why Candace will always say, "Widow!" Because this woman screamed at us at a TPUSA, and these young people are saying, "What the hell am I doing here? How much did this cost for me? Who is this woman screaming about widows?" It's, it's off its, off the, the, the, the track.

We've also been talking a lot about, um, misunderstood lyrics, and now there's kind of a controversy.

We were talking about the song, uh, from Houston, Texas, Archie Bell and the Drells.

If you've never heard it, it's one of my favorites.

Mm-hmm.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself Go out and give that love to somebody else Give it to me, girl, give it to me Girl, well, I'll take it

Yeah, that was Archie Bell and the Drells with Don't Let Love Get You Down.

Earthquake, my

heart's breaking.

Kenny Lynch before that one also from 1983 with the track called Half The Day's Gone and We Haven't Earned A Penny.

Archie Bell and the Drells before that from 1977 with the track called Disco Fever from their Hard Not To Like It LP.

And starting off with Pizzazz from 1979 with a tune called Rock Rock Your Body Part 1 originally released on RSM Records and just seen an inclusion on the brand new compilation Can You Feel It Volume 5.

Modern soul disco and boogie between the years of 77 and 88.

And since David Johansen had already put his stamp on the band, they debuted a cover beloved by Johansen that would become a mainstay in the New York Dolls set list as a challenge to every audience from then on.

Appropriately for The Dolls, this classic by Archie Bell and the Drells is actually about a dance competition, but it nevertheless sounds like it's about a street fight.

As such, damn near every New York Dolls show from then on would be some version of a showdown.

Yeah, it's gonna be a showdown.

Thank you.

1979 Archie Bell and the Drells and we got something it is Solar Radio Saturday morning Marc Collins morning after with Ravishing Russ until 12 tonight at 6 o'clock Tony Lee takes you back to 1981 6 till 8 tonight on one of those Saturday night specials that'll be good 1981 and I think Russ has interjected in some way picked a few tunes didn't you I'm sorry

yeah no I picked four jazz funk songs Alright.

What makes you so special?