Charly Cool Cuts
Jack That Cat Was Clean

Jack That Cat Was Clean

‘Jack That Cat Was Clean’ is the first of a series of ‘ Cool Charly Cuts’, CDs highlighting some of the best tracks out on the Charly label. It is available free to everyone who buys from the Charly store in the next two months. There are no fillers just six glorious examples of what Charly is all about-real music from classic artists.

The enigmatic Dr Horse leads off the disc and will now finally reach the audience it deserved since being recorded for the Fire label in the late 1950s. Lee Dorsey delivers a powerful slab of New Orleans soul, ‘Sneakin’ Sally through the alley’, recorded before Robert Palmer sat his O-levels. The song’s producer, Allen Toussaint also crafted the Stokes’ ‘Fat Cat’, more musical gumbo from the City of Dreams and Eldridge Holmes’ powerful’ Lovely Woman’. This shows how you can create a real southern soul classic without getting anywhere near commercial success.

New York City is represented by two tracks from Lieber and Stoller’s Red Bird label. Barry Mann’s We gotta get out of this place’ is the writer’s original of the song the Animals seized and in Pop Idol parlance made their own. Then The Shangri-Las, the bad girls of 60s pop contribute, ‘Love you more than yesterday’ a neglected gem from 1966, originally the B-side of their final Red Bird single.

Track Listing
1. Doctor Horse – Jack, that cat was clean
2. The Stokes – Fat Cat
3. Lee Dorsey – Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley
4. The Shangri-Las – Love you more than Yesterday
5. Barry Mann – We Gotta get out of this place
6. Eldridge Holmes – Lovely Woman

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