Thurston Harris - Do What You Did - Frantic Late 50's Rock and Roll video free download

ausfan100

Great rocker. I always used to think it was Plas Johnson doing the tenor sax solo on this record, however I finally learned it was his clone, Jackie Kelso, who also played on most of Johnny Otis' Capitol sides. Jewel Grant is on there too with his baritone sax. 

XaurreauX

Believe it or not, I'm hearing this song on YouTube for the first time since 1957.

Vonrizzo7

Great jiving song!

Kanye West

holy mother.

Tyler Carta

I think this song is good. I do really like some old music like this.

Mark Ace

Yes, it is a great one. Wonder why it is relatively unknown. Feels a bit like Little Richard.

PJDooWop

Johnny Preston had a few nice ballads too. The flip of Running Bear is a nice one called My Heart Knows

13loomisst

Some fine rock and roll here. Only knew a cover of this before, from Johnny Preston. It was O.K., but this is much better. Preston did another decent cover of an Aladdin tune, Shirley & Lee's "Feel So Fine." Thanks for this tune, which I'll be hearing again.

vespa202

WOnderful Rocking tune :))

PJDooWop

One big point that this book brought out is that the engineering process is very human. Although engineers had scopes, they relied heavily on their ears and their opinions. I wish I could pick the brain of some of these engineers... Just from listening, I can tell that the high end is often exaggerated on late 78s, and it goes beyond the speed difference. I think engineers were predisposed to compensating for the downfalls that the record buying public would experience

PJDooWop

In theory 78s should have greater dynamics, but there are other factors to look at. If you were to use the same cutting head at 45 and then 78, the dynamics would be better at 78. However, you have to consider that they were using differing cutting heads and the styli are at greatly varied sizes. If the technology of 78s would have followed that of 45 and 33, they would be far superior. There's a book that goes into a TON of detail about this.

CrisVangel

@PJDooWop Hmm! I always thought they sounded like the freq balance was about the same but I had noticed less compression on the 78, but that is intrinsic to the format! A 78 is able to reproduce somewhat greater dynamics, just due to it's greater speed! They could have both been fed the same signal when recorded but sound slightly different being played back! Plus if there's any where at all on the 45 or the 78 is whooped, those are vry large factors as well..

CrisVangel

Ah one I know!! I used to have it on a 78, great shape too, sounded awesome! I shouldn't have sold it (another one, yeah.. lol)

PJDooWop

I've noticed that with a lot of west coast 78s, and rock and roll 45s in general. 45s and 78s were mastered seperately. EQs and compression had to be thrown down on the final mix when the mothers were being cut. It seems to me that 45s get a little more compression and a lot of times were backed off on the upper highs and lower-mids than their 78 counterparts are. The engineers probably figured that 78s needed a little enhancement because they were many times being played on old equipment

TopshelfTom

Killer record.... why does youtube say this is Sam Pler? Lol. I've got this on a 78, i've noticed it's punchieir than my 45 is.

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