Mercury Records Collection: Philips PHS 600-319: ...What That Is!

PHS 600-319: ...What That Is! / Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Label Type :	black rainbow Philips
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	PHS600319A- M3 -1-1 MR
	SIDE-B	PHS600319B- M2 -1-1 MR

Comments

Inside The Groove

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' weird live recordings, featuring funny but extraordinary number “Constipation Blues”.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Wow! This LP is so special, only by including original version of “Constipation Blues”!

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-45291	What That Is	2:12
A-2	2-45292	Feast Of The Mau-Mau	3:25
A-3	2-45293	Do You Really Love Me?	2:10
A-4	2-45294	Stone Crazy	2:07
A-5	2-45295	I Love You	4:17
A-6	2-45296	Constipation Blues	4:30
SIDE-B
B-1	2-45297	I'm Lonely	2:28
B-2	2-45298	Thing Called Woman	2:35
B-3	2-45299	Dig!	3:08
B-4	2-45300	I'm Your Man	3:17
B-5	2-45301	Ask Him	3:03
B-6	2-45302	Reprise	2:15

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

A-4, B-1:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vo, p), Grahame Bond (p),
Ernest McLean (banjo), Ron Johnson (b), Eddie Hoh (ds).
Strings (arr. by Shorty Rogers) overdubbed on B-1.

B-2:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vo, p), Herb Ellis (g).

A-2:
same as B-2, plus
Carl “Beef” Gottlieb, Christopher “Egg” Ross,
Sal Valentino, Deirdre La Porte, Tom Reid, Thea Marcus (background vocals).

B-5:
same as B-2, plus
Billy Watkins Singers (background vocals).

A-1, A-5, A-6, B-3, B-4, B-6:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins (vo, p), Plas Johnson (ts),
Mike Anthony (g, banjo), Lyle Ritz (b), Earl Parmer (ds).

A-3:
same as A-1, plus
Carl “Beef” Gottlieb, Christopher “Egg” Ross,
Sal Valentino, Deirdre La Porte, Tom Reid, Thea Marcus (background vocals).

Recorded live at the Club Amigo, North Hollywood, CA on June 23 and 24, 1969.

Produced by Milan Melvin.
Engineered by Hank Cicalo.

Jackets

Front	Back

Labels

Side A	Side B