The Violinaires
In the soul, gospel, and jazz music worlds, its very common for artists to do renditions of rock and pop hits of the time, sometimes with disastrous results (ie-Aretha Franklin's version of the Doobie Bothers' What a Fool Believes). On rare occasions though, the hit is rendered in such a way that you get a whole new essence out of it in its new context. Such is the case with these two tracks. First, Its The gospel outfit The Violinaires with a soulful rendering of The Rolling Stones' "Salt of The Earth", originally appearing on their 1972 sprawling ode to American music, Exile on Main Street.
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The second track is Bahamian Calypso outfit Ronnie and the Ramblers' version of Harry Nillson's hit "Everybody's Talking", mistitled by the band as "Midnight Cowboy" (It was on that movie's soundtrack"DOWNLOAD MIDNIGHT COWBOY
I found both of these tracks on the terrific Joe Devivre site, a great resource for rare and free soul downloads. From what I gather, whoever runs this site is a clerk at Jazz Record Mart or some other vinyl boutique, and is transferring rare vinyl to digital and posting it.
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