Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

ThunderRd said:
And here's one I'll bet you've never heard, the great Sweetpea Atkinson singing a James Brown standard. I dare you to tell me The Boneshakers aren't a great band:


Here's the official video from 1997. For some unknown reason, the audio is in mono. The previous entry has the audio in stereo, as it should be, but lacks the video:


Here's a live version with the virtuoso alto sax player Mindy Abair, from a show in Seattle:


And if that isn't enough for you, here's The Boneshakers with Mindy Abair on sax and the terribly talented Joe Bonamassa on guitar:


More with Mindy Abair:

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You have outdone us all with the Boneshakers, ThunderRd! Mama Mia, this is a band that deserves great renown! Maybe I'm the only one who never heard them? If so maybe shooting is too good for me?

These people are what a band I could wish for is. Freakin' GREAT!!
 
I can't come up with a song or band that equals The Boneshakers. They ARE that good.
Please enjoy this, it's at least different: King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown:

 
The Boneshakers have a bloodline that goes back to the 80s Detroit band 'Was (Not Was)', if you can remember them - Don Was, David Was [both stage names], Randy Jacobs, Sweetpea Atkinson, and a few others.

Don Was is/was a proficient studio musician [mostly on the electric bass, but he played other instruments] and a successful record producer. It was his band.

The Was 'brothers' aren't involved now, but The Boneshakers is Randy Jacobs's band [he's the guitarist]

You'll most likely remember this first song. They were an underrated band, lots of funk and soul groove, but never got huge:



 
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The Boneshakers have a bloodline that goes back to the 80s Detroit band 'Was (Not Was)', if you can remember them - Don Was, David Was [both stage names], Randy Jacobs, Sweetpea Atkinson, and a few others.

Don Was is/was a proficient studio musician [mostly on the electric bass, but he played other instruments] and a successful record producer. It was his band.

The Was 'brothers' aren't involved now, but The Boneshakers is Randy Jacobs's band [he's the guitarist]

You'll most likely remember this first song. They were an underrated band, lots of funk and soul groove, but never got huge:



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Thank you for these latest posts, ThunderRd! I certainly know of Don Was, he's a prolific producer of mostly great material, and also a very good bass player.
 
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OK, since I've opened this door, my top 11

Favorite Rolling Stones songs, by ThunderRd:

1 Gimme Shelter
2 [[TIED] Beast of Burden AND Wild Horses
3 Tumblin' Dice
4 You Can't Always Get What You Want
5 Sympathy For The Devil
6 Fool To Cry
7 Honky Tonk Women
8 It's Only Rock N' Roll (But I Like It)
9 Time Is On My Side
10 Can't You Hear Me Knockin'

Any/all other opinions welcome
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But but but...how could you leave out Moonlight Mile?

The intro alone is worth the price of admission! For me the opening of this song is positively mystical...

 
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But but but...how could you leave out Moonlight Mile?

The intro alone is worth the price of admission! For me the opening of this song is positively mystical...

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It's a very good song. What mars it for me is the repeated "head full of snow" lyrics. I'm very happy that my brain isn't full of cocaine for the last quarter century or more.
 
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It's a very good song. What mars it for me is the repeated "head full of snow" lyrics. I'm very happy that my brain isn't full of cocaine for the last quarter century or more.
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It seems to me that music accompanies us in every walk of life.It carries us into and back-out of every stage of our progress and decline.Songs of murder and rape, poverty and riches. We only seldom use music to advocate these things, mostly I think we use it to try and understand the motives involved.

The end result is more often tragic than pleasing. But perhaps we need to understand what attracts our fellows and lays them low.There is an up side to all these drugs. I feel we must understand that side in order to prevent another loss.

Why does one prefer a road of peril and loss? Why does this one seek the darkness of self deception?

What is it that chases them down this rabbit hole?

It would benefit us greatly to understand why we lose so many.

This songs speaks to me of forbidden attractions, of lethal love. And a loneliness that seeks any company that will comfort.

I guess I hear it as a funeral dirge, a song of dying a song of what could not find away home.

My heart searches its cords and melody for that most treasured moment of clarity that has set so many free to return to us and regain the wholeness of life.

All this is but "a Moon light mile" on down the road.
 
Mr Edgar Winter. You may like this one:


It was difficult to find any music that provided an uplift in mood when I was in the small country of Viet-Nam. I was lucky to find this minor masterpiece from Edgar Winter and White Trash. It helped a lot. Thanks all of y'all!
 
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Manfred Mann and his Earth Band. Nice to see the official lyrics, seems I wasn't hearing "deuce" correctly.

 
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And herewith, the original version by the songwriter his'self:


And, for your entertainment, a little [tongue in cheek] commentary on the pronunciation of 'deuce', by the Boss himself. Don't believe the comments below; Manfred Mann isn't from New Zealand - he's South African:


And I love this interview of Bruce by Stephen Colbert, where Bruce calls his 'Top 5':

 
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