Favoriting The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from January 2, 2024 Favoriting

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Twenty years of dusty fingers, frayed cuticles, & upper respiratory infections — from record digging and DJing around the globe — coalesces into a 2-hour journey through Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Latin, Rock & Roll, and all points in between. Your speakers will be head-nodding, toe-tapping & even two-stepping to this vintage 45rpm party in no time. Hear favorite songs you didn't know were your favorites, aural treats & record-world problems from the vinyl side of life.

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Favoriting January 2, 2024: Les McCann Tribute

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Artist Track Album Label Format Approx. start time
Les McCann  Sunny   Favoriting Les McCann Plays the Hits  Limelight  LP  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Guantanamera   Favoriting Les McCann Plays the Hits  Limelight  LP  0:05:45 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Summer Samba (So Nice)   Favoriting Les McCann Plays the Hits  Limelight  LP  0:08:40 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Sad Little Girl   Favoriting Les McCann Plays the Hits  Limelight  LP  0:10:58 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  River Deep, Mountain High   Favoriting Les McCann Plays the Hits  Limelight  LP  0:13:49 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You   Favoriting Bucket O' Grease  Limelight  LP  0:23:17 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Bang Bang   Favoriting Bucket O' Grease  Limelight  LP  0:25:10 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Music To Watch Girls By   Favoriting Bucket O' Grease  Limelight  LP  0:28:29 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Watermelon Man   Favoriting Bucket O' Grease  Limelight  LP  0:30:28 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  La Brea   Favoriting Bucket O' Grease  Limelight  LP  0:34:49 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  What I Call Soul   Favoriting   Atlantic  7"  0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Compared To What   Favoriting Swiss Movement  Atlantic  LP  0:45:25 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Cold Duck Time   Favoriting Swiss Movement  Atlantic  LP  0:54:26 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Kathleen's Theme   Favoriting Swiss Movement  Atlantic  LP  1:02:47 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Shorty Rides Again   Favoriting Second Movement  Atlantic  LP  1:07:24 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Universal Prisoner   Favoriting Second Movement  Atlantic  LP  1:20:33 (Pop-up)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris  Carry On Brother   Favoriting Second Movement  Atlantic  LP  1:25:32 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Sometimes I Cry   Favoriting Layers  Atlantic  LP  1:32:46 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Let's Gather   Favoriting Layers  Atlantic  LP  1:38:02 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  Anticipation/The Dunbar High School Marching Band   Favoriting Layers  Atlantic  LP  1:40:04 (Pop-up)
Les McCann  The Lovers   Favoriting Invitation To Openness  Atlantic  LP  1:48:26 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Matt from New Orleans:

Evening Kris & everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Happy New Year
  10:02pm
Jubbbt:

Evening folx and HNY from Aotearoa!
Avatar 🥁 10:06pm
Kris Holmes:

Hi Matt, Hi Jubt, Happy New Year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
Matt from New Orleans:

This one is a little easy listening-ish
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Think they called it cocktail Jazz. What Dom Salvador plays at the River Cafe in Brooklyn.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Candy-O'67:

Hey Kris, Matt, Jubbbt! Happy New Year! Gonna be driving in the car for a bit, but I'm here!
Avatar 🥁 10:10pm
Kris Holmes:

Gotta cover all the styles to make that cheddar
Avatar 🥁 10:10pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Candy-O'67 @10:10
Hi Candy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Matt from New Orleans:

↳ Song: "Summer Samba (So Nice)" by "Les McCann"
Think Chris Bangs would call that dodgy Bossa
Avatar 🥁 10:13pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Matt from New Orleans @10:11
There were & continue to be many crimes against Bossa Nova committed by non-Brazilian musicians, that is nowhere near a bad offender lol
  10:14pm
Jubbbt:

What is your favourite record clocking fifty in 2024?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
JtotheK:

↳ Kris Holmes @10:13
oh no, I wonder if I have any of these ... which records are in this list?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
JtotheK:

seasonal new year greeting mr holmes, everyone. gonna segue into LAYERS next?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Plas Johnson was an LA transplant in LA 😂
Avatar 🥁 10:30pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Jubbbt @10:14
Jeez Jubt, that's tough, lotta bangers in 74.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Matt from New Orleans:

I’ll say Pretzel Logic but that could change at any moment
Avatar 🥁 10:32pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Jubbbt @10:14
Head Hunters?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Matt from New Orleans:

↳ Kris Holmes @10:32
Think that was 73
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
WR:

Hello Kris, Matt, JtotheK, Candy, Jubbbt, others.

I listened to last week's episode one morning. Didn't know if I should comment or not after Matt fading saying maybe WR or Candy were lurking.
Avatar 🥁 10:36pm
Kris Holmes:

Donald Byrd Street Lady?
Avatar 🥁 10:36pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ WR @10:34
Hi WR
Avatar 🥁 10:37pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @10:22
There will be LAYERS
  10:41pm
Jubbbt:

↳ Kris Holmes @10:30
a LOT of bangers no doubt
  10:42pm
Jubbbt:

↳ Matt from New Orleans @10:34
correct
  10:43pm
Jubbbt:

↳ Kris Holmes @10:36
yes - can't find a correct release date, but best I can figure is 74
Avatar 🥁 10:44pm
Kris Holmes:

Bill Withers Justments?
Avatar 🥁 10:44pm
Kris Holmes:

Pure Smokey?
Avatar 🥁 10:44pm
Kris Holmes:

Blackbyrds s/t?
Avatar 🥁 10:45pm
Kris Holmes:

Oh, shoot, which Impressions LP? Is Finally Got Myself Together 74?
Avatar 🥁 10:47pm
Kris Holmes:

Bobbi Humphrey Black & Blues!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Love this album
Avatar 🥁 10:48pm
Kris Holmes:

Up For The Downstroke!!!
Avatar 🥁 10:49pm
Kris Holmes:

Fred Wesley & The JBs Damn Right I Am Somebody!!!!!

Yeah nah, I can't choose one!
Avatar 🥁 10:50pm
Kris Holmes:

Is Ann Peebles Can't Stand The Rain 73 or 74?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Inspiration Information & Perfect Angel too Kris
Avatar 🥁 10:50pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Matt from New Orleans @10:48
Matt, it's so great
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
JtotheK:

I looked at a few pages of discogs 'jazz 1974' filters and a few that stuck out:
Weldon Irvine 'Cosmic Vortex'
Ahmad Jamal 'Jamalca'
Ramsey Lewis 'Sun Goddess'
And Layers shows as 1973.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Think I’m gonna put the phone down and listen till I fall asleep. See everyone next week.
Avatar 🥁 11:05pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:04
Sun Goddess up there for sure
Avatar 🥁 11:06pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Matt from New Orleans @11:05
night Matt
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Universal Prisoner" by "Les McCann & Eddie Harris"
Not like what I think of when want to hear Les McCann but enjoy his vocal and the tune.
Avatar 🥁 11:25pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ WR @11:24
He'd hate this comparison but his voice reminds me of Lou Rawls
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Candy-O'67:

↳ Song: "Carry On Brother" by "Les McCann & Eddie Harris"
This song is getting down!
Avatar 🥁 11:32pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Candy-O'67 @11:32
Cissy Houston & Judy Clay on voices
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Candy-O'67:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:32
Cool!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Candy-O'67:

Hey WR
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
Candy-O'67:

Kris, I can't go this Friday, but let me know when your DJ'g out again soon. I'll try to come oit
Avatar 🥁 11:35pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Candy-O'67 @11:35
At the moment it's first friday every month
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
JtotheK:

Also seeing that Bob James "One" is 1974.
Avatar 🥁 11:36pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:35
74 a solid year still
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
JtotheK:

I hope to someday find the Bob James album he recorded for ESP Disk. Though that appears to be 1965.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:46pm
Candy-O'67:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:35
And where did you say it was, the club?
Avatar 🥁 11:49pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ Candy-O'67 @11:46
Gimme Gimme on S St Mary's
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Candy-O'67:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:49
Ok, cool!
Avatar 🥁 11:50pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:45
A friend pulled that Bob James out of a local metal/rock store here a couple of months ago.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
JtotheK:

Thanks for the McCann tunes, Mr Holmes. I'm gonna have to spin Layers and Invitation around the house this week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
JtotheK:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:50
Really? Wouldn't expect that, but very cool!
Avatar 🥁 11:52pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:51
yeah, i had slight record envy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
JtotheK:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:52
I'd like to request that in 2024 you do an extra-special show, featuring Bob James 'Touchdown' or later LP tracks.
Touchdown
H (because hot dog cover)
Sign of the Times
All Around the Town
The Genie
Foxie
Avatar 🥁 11:56pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:55
not gonna happen sorry ha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Anticipation/The Dunbar High School Marching Band...
Thanks for the tunes, Kris. I don't remember listening to Layers before. Will explore more.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
JtotheK:

Remind me to remind you in the weeks leading up to 'LPs Going Unsteady' week in October.
Avatar 🥁 11:57pm
Kris Holmes:

↳ JtotheK @11:57
not gonna happen sorry ha
Avatar 🥁 11:57pm
Kris Holmes:

hehehehe
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Matt from New Orleans:

Les McCann kept me up
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
WR:

↳ Kris Holmes @11:56
I dunno, maybe. Bob James is 84, didn't know he is still around. Anyways, thanks, Kris, laters all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
JtotheK:

Oh wow, I've never heard the 'Obsession' album from Bob James, 1986. Discogs category both 'jazz funk' and 'synth pop' so I gotta hear that one.
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